| 90 |
Washington Post
I'm talking cheap visual gags, painfully embarrassing moments and other sophomoric humor guaranteed to get you and your friends almost vomiting with laughter.
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| 88 |
Charlotte Observer
Grosser than "American Pie"! More penis jokes than "There''s Something About Mary"! Nudity more gratuitous than "Porky''s"!
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| 80 |
Salon.com
Like last year's "American Pie," Road Trip crisply delivers the goods: vaguely rakish heroes, vaguely kinky sex and highly naked nubiles.
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| 77 |
Mr. Showbiz
It's a larky hoot in its best moments, and it has a refreshingly unforced sense of fun that buoys the scenes that are straight out of Lame Movie Laffs 101.
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| 75 |
New York Post
A cheerfully crude, well-cast (and frequently uproarious) campus comedy in the tradition of "There's Something About Mary."
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Slightly more mature and better assembled, Road Trip goes one better on "American Pie" by teasing out the idiosyncrasies in four guys existing in a personality grab bag.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
The jokes, fast and furious enough to satisfy both teens and intrepid parents, are far funnier than they are raunchy.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Slick, reasonably amusing, never asking its audience to swallow anything too wild for consumption.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
As long as Green is onscreen, which is not nearly enough, Road Trip is easy to get revved up about.
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| 70 |
Variety
Be forewarned: After you see Road Trip, it may be months, if not years, before you can order French toast with a straight face and a settled stomach.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
At a relaxed pace, accompanied by restrained pop music.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
It satisfies your appetite for totally tasteless but deliciously flaky boy movies.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
Silly, simple and sophomoric -- and also intermittently hilarious and, surprise of surprises, directed with unexpected craft.
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| 63 |
USA Today
We all know grossly moronic behavior can, in the right situation, generate hearty guilty-pleasure guffaws - at least until overkill wears out the welcome.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Not as consistently or uproariously funny as "American Pie," but it does have a Zen zaniness that gives it center as well as edge.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Plot? There is no plot. You want plot, go read "War and Peace."
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Bad taste is timeless. And sometimes it can be so funny that you can't help laughing.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
Gets a lurching spring in its step whenever Tom Green shows up to, say, cram a live mouse in his mouth.
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| 60 |
Slate
This isn't an objectionable movie, just a mild, obvious, and rather limp one, with plenty of little jolts but no ejaculatory payoff.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
Genially moronic, Road Trip will tide you over until the next slice of "American Pie" comes along.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The film's real find is D.J. Qualls, who is very funny as a jug-eared nerd who blossoms into a wild man after three days on the road.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It's sweet when it should be raunchy, or vice versa, and the result is a movie that seems uneasy with itself.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
This is a familiar journey and director/co-writer Todd Phillips sidesteps every opportunity to inject a little edge or originality into it.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
When it's not wasting time with character, this deliberately dumb collegiate comedy is good for a few laughs of the big butts and sex variety, but not much else.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
All I know is that guys are strongly advised to avoid this on a first date.
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| 40 |
Film.com
When Phillips is out of the zone, however, Road Trip slows down, awaiting another redemption.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Degenerates into a slow-moving game of connect-the-gross-outs.
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| 30 |
Film.com
But as objectionable as its subject matter is, the most objectionable thing is that it's not funny.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
The animals in Road Trip are pretty hilarious; as a five-minute short on cable TV's "Animal Planet," this film would be a stitch.
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| 5 |
TNT RoughCut
A cinematic lowpoint, even within its decidedly lowbrow genre, the teen gross-out sex romp.
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| 0 |
Dallas Observer
It ranks (indeed, it is rank) among the most soul-deadening movies ever made; it has no pulse and seeks to steal yours with a cynical vengeance.
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