Sex Drive (2008)

Great Film overall

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Our Film Fridays group veered away from the classics for "Sex Drive" and, while not overly enthused with the result, were somewhat pleased to find some humour therein.The story revolves around young Ian (Josh Zuckerman) who gets embroiled with an internet hottie named Ms. Tasty in order to lose his virginity. Follow a bunch of sight-gags revolving around penises, breasts, flatulence, the Ahmish and James Marsden's over the top homophobic big brother to Ian.Ian, his pal Lance and Ian's beloved Felicia hitch Rex's (James Marsden) GTO to head to Knoxville. Along the way they encounter the movie's sole saving grace in Seth Green, who gets some genuine chuckles as the sarcasm-addicted Ahmish car repairman who saves the day for the group. The movie is quite uneven, however, going from a buddy movie to exploring teen longing to unnecessary gross out humour, leaving its message (Tell your crush that you love them and go from there) behind in some forced scenes. Hard to give this movie more than an average rating as the messages of friendship and longing have been explored much better in other movies. The cast isn't exactly crowd-friendly either. Zuckerman does fine as the overwhelmed teen but Clark Duke as Lance is as unlikeable as you can get in a precocious teen. Amanda Crew (along with most women in the movie) is a decoration, adding to the misogynistic overlay of the film.See only if in the same age group or if nothing else is on.

I thought this was a very good story about an 18yr old virgin boy who set 's out cross country to meet this girl from over the Internet,, Ms.. tasty. he steals his brother's GTO and heads to Knoxville to meet her,, he takes two of his best friends with him, and along the way the encounter,, hitchhikers. Amish, an ex boyfriend,, and all sorts of crazy and zany characters. he starts having feelings for a girl before he get's to Ms. tasty and he starts to wonder what is he doing anyway. the brother,, played by James Mardsen, is angry as all you know what, and takes off after his younger brother in hopes of catching him so he can beat him up for stealing his classic car.. a very funny movie, with lot's of crude sexual humor,, definitely worth the watch.

Happened to have this on CC as I was fixing my bike. Had heard of it, and expected it to be the stereotypical teen exploitation film, filled with cardboard cutout characters representing an adult idea of what a young adult might want.Instead, it's a smart film with characters that represent actual humans, and with certain subtleties that you would never expect.You won't mistake it for Fellini, and there's plenty of the usual red-meat clichés of the genre, but it's closer to the mark than most, and clearly someone--writer, director?--had more in mind than just a cheap money making knockoff, although undoubtedly there were some participants who must have had that in mind too.The casting is smart. The Amish subplot is unexpected and works a few unexpected things. And the pick-up artist character (Lance?) is interestingly well drawn, written and acted with some unexpected depth. The lack of gratitude angle played out in the Seth Green subplot is one that I don't think has been done before in a film like this, and is actually a bit daring for a genre that mostly deals with tropes and flattery.

I cant agree with some that this move is hilarious but its very funny and does meet expectations when it comes to these kind of films. you get tits, penis jokes, weird characters and unexpected situations. its a road trip movie about friends and the awkward people they meet one the way. you've seen the story, you're familiar with the outcome and kind already see who is gonna fall in love or just bang who. but the little parts, the details and characters you do see for the first time do add up to the very entertaining atmosphere and good laughs. watch it i if you wanna relax, have a good time, with friends or whatever. its worth your time. you're not gonna feel like you wasted it.