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Sex Drive
Summit Entertainment


7.7

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MPAA RATING: R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, language, some drug and alcohol use - all involving teens

Starring James Marsden, Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Katrina Bowden, Seth Green, and Clark Duke

Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he met on the Internet. But the journey, filled with hilarious misadventures and raunchy escapades, teaches all three more than they expected about life and love. Randy, raucous and unexpectedly romantic, Sex Drive follows three friends on the road trip of a lifetime! (Summit Entertainment)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Sean Anders John Morris
DIRECTED BY:	Sean Anders
RELEASE DATE:	Theatrical: October 17, 2008
RUNNING TIME:	101 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

TV Guide Cammila Albertson

All that matters is if it's funny -- and it is.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Sex Drive has shaky moments, and its smutty gags aren't edited so much as slammed together.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Sex Drive's first 30 minutes may lead one to suspect there's nothing new to be seen here, but it undergoes a transformation once the preliminaries have been dispensed with. John Hughes would be pleased - and so also might Judd Apatow.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

A testosterone-fueled road movie that displays the same Apatow-ian obsessions, and raunch, as "Pineapple Express," "Superbad," and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Three things and three things only keep Sex Drive from being teen-comedy landfill. The first is James Marsden, hilarious as the hero's bully-boy big brother. The second is Seth Green, beyond droll as an Amishman with attitude. The third is the Mexican doughnut costume.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The gags are as idiotic as you'd expect, but they consistently hit the bull's-eye.

Village Voice Sam Sweet

Remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols

The first half-hour of this movie is super-worse, with only some sub-"American Pie" gags fleshing out the lame-brain plot, but once it gets on the road, there's pleasure to be had.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Sex Drive offers a limp variation on a hoary old teen-film trope.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

The sweetheart leads, Josh Zuckerman and Amanda Crew, are easy to spend time with, and Seth Green as an Amish hipster and Clark Duke as an unlikely lady-killer hit every sweet-and-sardonic note with panache.

San Francisco Chronicle Reyhan Harmanci

Some jokes work, some don't and, frankly, I can't remember either, but it leaves a sweet aftertaste. Slight, but sweet.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Sex Drive does not fully satisfy our comic desires.

Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen

Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

This movie doesn't contain "offensive language." The offensive language contains the movie.

Washington Post Neely Tucker

The movie is pulled along mostly by James Marsden's cheerfully over-the-top performance as Ian's homophobic older brother, but Josh Zuckerman does a nice job of keeping Ian likable.

Film Threat Tricia Olszewski

The movie's original moments drown in its overall derivation.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's not "Sixteen Candles," but it's not "Road Trip," either. Instead, this comedic car-trip riff on the teen-male libido and the lengths to which it will go to satisfy itself falls somewhere in between part endearing emo love story, part gross-out semen gag-fest, and, very occasionally, a smart, inspired, non-sequitur-laden hoot.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Less sex comedy and more Seth comedy would have made for a much livelier excursion.

Variety Joe Leydon

Since the new pic contains little that's genuinely amusing or minimally original, it likely will fail on its own merits.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Just slightly funnier than you'd expect, this dashed-off teen comedy cribs from a thousand other movies, without coming up with anything original of its own.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

One smart thing Green's character Ezekiel does is split from Sex Drive as soon as his two scenes are over.

Chicago Tribune Tasha Robinson

Sean Anders' derivative gross-out movie Sex Drive is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is "because it’s a teen sex comedy."

The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Aaron L. gave it a4:
As far as end-year movies go, quality can assure its displacement.

Chad S. gave it a7:
In Todd Phillips' "Road Trip", the filmmaker pays homage to his own bout with puberty when Amy Smart frees her boobs, just like how Phoebe Cates frees her boobs in Amy Heckerling's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". Everybody remembers what Cates wore, a two-piece red bikini, now: Think fast! What was Smart wearing before she pulled it over her head? That's why Phillips failed. Nobody remembers Smart's spaghetti strap. Memorable clothing, not just memorable boobs, is the reason why Cates' poolside scene has its own wing in the Perv-Hall-of-Fame. Linda Barrett was a bad girl. She showed Stacey Hamilton(Jennifer Jason-Leigh) how to fellate a carrot in the Ridgemont High cafeteria. Felicia(Amanda Crew) is a good girl. In "Sex Drive", she drives Ian(Josh Zuckerman) crazy by being in love with Lance(Clark Duke), just like another good girl, Maggie(Kerri Green), who chooses Cappie(Charlie Sheen) over Lucas(Corey Haim) in David Seltzer's "Lucas", the 1986 film that quietly informs this "American Pie" retread", redeemed and given transcendence by a sweet performance by Crew, whose Felicia is soft like Green's cheerleader, the high school girlfriend you always wished for(when you weren't busy wishing for boobs). After "Lucas", the auburn-haired beauty starred in Bill L. Norton's "Three for the Road", and wouldn't you just know it, our three heroes are three for the road. "Sex Drive" has two inspired bits: an ornery Amish man(Seth GREEN), and a donut costume. Read the donut, read Ian as a talking p****. In the short form music video for "That's Good"(directed by Gerald Casale), an animated French fry screws an animated donut hole. After the climactic scene in the parking lot, the donut costume becomes prosaic; Ian's masculine performance transforms his emasculating mall get-up, back into a mere donut costume. Now when he talks, it's his own voice, and not contracting vaginal muscles.

Zoomie M. gave it a10:
Just much better than critics suggested. Built to a crescendo after the first half hour. Worth a shot.

Lou E. gave it a2:
Tryin to rip-off superbad and it failed,epic failure, I was not laughing, there were 15 minutes left and I just walked out.

Jose L. gave it a10:
so funny...such a pleasant surprise.

Tomas M. gave it a7:
It's not the next Superbad that people are still waiting for, but it has enough laughs to keep its target audience entertained. Props to Seth Green for a marvelous performance that I am sure everyone would wish had been more prominent in the film.

Sex Drive Summit Entertainment

Sex Drive
Summit Entertainment