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58
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53
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49
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49
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46
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45
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43
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43
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43
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39
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37
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35
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35
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34
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31
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28
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27
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26
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24
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19
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Sex Drive
Summit Entertainment
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
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| 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...
88
TV Guide
Cammila Albertson
All that matters is if it's funny -- and it is.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Sex Drive has shaky moments, and its smutty gags aren't edited so much as slammed together.

75
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.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.

63
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."

63
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.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The gags are as idiotic as you'd expect, but they consistently hit the bull's-eye.

60
Village Voice
Sam Sweet
Remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves.

58
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.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Sex Drive offers a limp variation on a hoary old teen-film trope.

50
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.

50
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.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Sex Drive does not fully satisfy our comic desires.

50
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.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This movie doesn't contain "offensive language." The offensive language contains the movie.

50
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.

40
Film Threat
Tricia Olszewski
The movie's original moments drown in its overall derivation.

40
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.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Less sex comedy and more Seth comedy would have made for a much livelier excursion.

40
Variety
Joe Leydon
Since the new pic contains little that's genuinely amusing or minimally original, it likely will fail on its own merits.

40
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.

38
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.

38
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."


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