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Road Trip
DreamWorks
FILM:
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Todd Phillips
Scot Armstrong
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Todd Phillips
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 19, 2000
Video: December 19, 2000
Theatrical: May 19, 2000
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| 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...
90
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.
88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Grosser than "American Pie"! More penis jokes than "There''s Something About Mary"! Nudity more gratuitous than "Porky''s"!
80
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.
77
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.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A cheerfully crude, well-cast (and frequently uproarious) campus comedy in the tradition of "There's Something About Mary."
75
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.
75
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.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Slick, reasonably amusing, never asking its audience to swallow anything too wild for consumption.
70
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
As long as Green is onscreen, which is not nearly enough, Road Trip is easy to get revved up about.
70
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.
70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
At a relaxed pace, accompanied by restrained pop music.
70
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It satisfies your appetite for totally tasteless but deliciously flaky boy movies.
67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Silly, simple and sophomoric -- and also intermittently hilarious and, surprise of surprises, directed with unexpected craft.
63
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.
63
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.
63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Plot? There is no plot. You want plot, go read "War and Peace."
60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Bad taste is timeless. And sometimes it can be so funny that you can't help laughing.
60
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.
60
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.
50
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Genially moronic, Road Trip will tide you over until the next slice of "American Pie" comes along.
50
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.
50
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.
50
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.
50
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.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
All I know is that guys are strongly advised to avoid this on a first date.
40
Film.com
Tom Keogh
When Phillips is out of the zone, however, Road Trip slows down, awaiting another redemption.
38
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.
38
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Degenerates into a slow-moving game of connect-the-gross-outs.
30
Film.com
Sean Means
But as objectionable as its subject matter is, the most objectionable thing is that it's not funny.
25
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.
5
TNT RoughCut
J. Rentilly
A cinematic lowpoint, even within its decidedly lowbrow genre, the teen gross-out sex romp.
0
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.
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