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Road Trip
DreamWorks


7.4

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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, crude humor, language and drug use

Starring Seann William Scott, Breckin Meyer, DJ Qualls, Fred Ward, Andy Dick, and Tom Green

Josh, a college student, videotapes an incident with a coed and someone actually mails the tape to his girlfriend, after which Josh tows two of his college buddies and one not-so-eager kid on a wild 1,800 mile road trip from Ithaca to Austin to save his lifelong romance.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Todd Phillips Scot Armstrong
DIRECTED BY:	Todd Phillips
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 19, 2000 Video: December 19, 2000 Theatrical: May 19, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	93 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...

Washington Post Desson Thomson

I'm talking cheap visual gags, painfully embarrassing moments and other sophomoric humor guaranteed to get you and your friends almost vomiting with laughter.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Grosser than "American Pie"! More penis jokes than "There''s Something About Mary"! Nudity more gratuitous than "Porky''s"!

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Like last year's "American Pie," Road Trip crisply delivers the goods: vaguely rakish heroes, vaguely kinky sex and highly naked nubiles.

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A cheerfully crude, well-cast (and frequently uproarious) campus comedy in the tradition of "There's Something About Mary."

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

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.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The jokes, fast and furious enough to satisfy both teens and intrepid parents, are far funnier than they are raunchy.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Slick, reasonably amusing, never asking its audience to swallow anything too wild for consumption.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

As long as Green is onscreen, which is not nearly enough, Road Trip is easy to get revved up about.

Variety Joe Leydon

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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

At a relaxed pace, accompanied by restrained pop music.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

It satisfies your appetite for totally tasteless but deliciously flaky boy movies.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Silly, simple and sophomoric -- and also intermittently hilarious and, surprise of surprises, directed with unexpected craft.

USA Today Mike Clark

We all know grossly moronic behavior can, in the right situation, generate hearty guilty-pleasure guffaws - at least until overkill wears out the welcome.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Not as consistently or uproariously funny as "American Pie," but it does have a Zen zaniness that gives it center as well as edge.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Plot? There is no plot. You want plot, go read "War and Peace."

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Bad taste is timeless. And sometimes it can be so funny that you can't help laughing.

Village Voice Jessica Winter

Gets a lurching spring in its step whenever Tom Green shows up to, say, cram a live mouse in his mouth.

Slate David Edelstein

This isn't an objectionable movie, just a mild, obvious, and rather limp one, with plenty of little jolts but no ejaculatory payoff.

LA Weekly John Patterson

Genially moronic, Road Trip will tide you over until the next slice of "American Pie" comes along.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It's sweet when it should be raunchy, or vice versa, and the result is a movie that seems uneasy with itself.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

This is a familiar journey and director/co-writer Todd Phillips sidesteps every opportunity to inject a little edge or originality into it.

TV Guide Ken Fox

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.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

All I know is that guys are strongly advised to avoid this on a first date.

Film.com Tom Keogh

When Phillips is out of the zone, however, Road Trip slows down, awaiting another redemption.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.

Chicago Tribune Marc Caro

Degenerates into a slow-moving game of connect-the-gross-outs.

Film.com Sean Means

But as objectionable as its subject matter is, the most objectionable thing is that it's not funny.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

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.

TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly

A cinematic lowpoint, even within its decidedly lowbrow genre, the teen gross-out sex romp.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ben H. gave it a10:
Very funny movie. Even my 60 year old dad laughed during several parts of the film. One of the best comedies I have ever seen!

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
Very funny. VERY nice boobs!

Andrew M. gave it an 8:
A great teen comedy. When I watch this film I get exactly what I want from it: laughs, boobs, fun, all with little or no thinking involved. Not suitable for those aged over 40 (or so) but for everyone else, top fun! It only loses two points for Tom Green (although he was great in the film) going too far with that mouse....that was a little disturbing.

Mike H. gave it a 9:
One of the funniest films in recent memory, especially if you're in the mood for unabashed silliness (and a slight lack of good taste).

Dale C. gave it a 9:
I agree with Mike. You're expecting brainless nonsense going in, but you get some belly-laugh humor that lasts long after you've left the theatre.

Ryan M. gave it a 10:
Good story, great jokes. It has everything a comedy needs. Probably even better than "American Pie."

[Anonymous] gave it a 6:
Had great laughs but the story was too sex driven. But it was hillarious.

Road Trip DreamWorks

Road Trip
DreamWorks