Sex Drive (2008) User Reviews

Pretty Hilarious

[Spacetree · 7/10 · 30 September 2008]

I saw Sex Drive at a sneak preview presented by my university. It's a seemingly typical teen sex comedy in the vein of Superbad meets Road Trip. Zuckerman plays Ian, a young virgin with no luck with the ladies, a crush on his childhood friend Felicia (Crew), a jerk of an older brother (Marsden), and is best friends with an Austin Powers-esquire Casanova by the name of Lance (Duke). On the internet, he poses as a football player while courting a mysterious girl online. When the girl invites him to go "all the way", he steals his brother's GTO and heads to Knoxville with Felicia and Lance. Ian's character has the usual nerdy teen virgin-in-a-movie problems: falls for the wrong girls, takes few risks, gets caught in embarrassing sexual situations. On the road trip, they run into a series of hilarious, awkward, and weird situations. And on the way, they discover that sex isn't the most important thing, and that true love can be found in both odd and familiar places.

It's not exactly stunningly original, but it's still a hilarious film. The three leads do a pretty good job, Lance being a particularly funny character. Marsden and Green steal the show in all the scenes they're in, and all of the characters in the film are interesting, even if most of them are stock characters. The script is also well-connected, with most of the characters being connected to the larger plot, and combines wit, ribaldry, and straight adult humor well. Every gag sequence gets big laughs, and the comedy never slows down or dies out. The internet cut-aways are especially hilarious supplements.

It's refreshing to see a genuinely adult comedy not coming from the Apatow crew or McKay and Ferrell. Although it lacks star leads and filmmakers and will probably drop under the radar, I definitely recommend Sex Drive to anyone looking for a big laughs.

This decade's "Road Trip"

[campkllyrsf-1 · 7/10 · 12 October 2008]

So there was a screening of Sex Drive at the theatre, so I thought "what the hell?"

From the preview, I thought it could have gone one of three ways: 1. A horrible attempt at an R-rated comedy in the same fashion of a pretty good comedy a decade ago. (Like College tried for American Pie, and failed) 2. A mediocre R-rated comedy with bits here and there. 3. A movie that knows what it's going for and hits its mark.

I would have to say, this movie is very close to #3. The movie isn't a great movie, but it has no delusions on what it is. With the plot of a guy driving cross state just to get some ass, there's not a lot of directions you can go with it. The makers know this, so they make the best of it.

No real need to stress much on the story. It's simple, basic, predictable. Bad? I wouldn't say that. The story is really more of a momentum pusher than anything. It's really only there to prevent this from being a series of jokes and gags just jumbled together. There's no real big twist, a few lessons to be taken form it, but they all have been done before. You can pretty much tell what's going to happen at the end within the first 15 minutes. But the story isn't really the important thing here, so no real points taken off for that.

All the actors are good. Clichéd, yes, but they are likable. The goofy, virgin lead guy who's trying to get some tail is played wonderfully by Josh Zuckerman. Pulls it off flawlessly with all the awkwardness and uncertainty that the character would have. Amanda Crew is also really good at the "BFF" of Josh's character. The two have pretty good chemistry, even with all their awkwardly close moments. It isn't perfect, but being in some of those awkward situations, they were (while pushed a bit) familiar.

A surprise is James Marsden. You may remember him as Cyclops from X-Men, and he pulls off a great punk-ass older brother with a sense of humor of his own. He is the typical ass hole older brother in these kind of movies, but he pulls it over very well. Seth Green just seems like he's cruising through the movie. I think he's got a lot of talent and I knew even if the movie was going to be bad, he would provide a good set of laughs. And as a sarcastic Amish engineer genius, he's just fits in this movie seamlessly.

But I have to give a lot of credit to Clark Duke. His first real movie. He was a party extra in Superbad, if I'm not mistaken, the one who called McLovin' a bad ass. Like Seth Green, he just seems to glide through. He also has great chemistry with Josh Zuckerman. You can tell the two of them just had a really good time together on this. He is the suave ladies man who's guiding his pathetic best friend on his verge of losing his virginity, while getting some action himself. He doesn't have the look of the typical character, but he pulls it off excellently.

I put a lot of emphasis on the characters and actors. They were the backbone of the movie. Not the story, but the characters. There's also a hand full of supporting characters that do a good job at their parts, and an unwelcome (well, for me it was unwelcome) appearance by Fall Out Boy.

There are few things worse than a comedy that's not funny. There have been a serious excess of those as well. Dane Cook just had a movie a few weeks ago, and that was a haggard piece of crap. I actually have to say though, I laughed quite a bit in this movie. With the plot, there are going to be quite a few of the sex jokes, involving spooge, penises and homosexuality. Most of them though actually delivered. I can't actually say there were too many flat moments with the jokes. Yes, there were some, but the jokes that worked out-weighed those that didn't.

The climax got really over-the-top, but it did continue on with the laughs, and was satisfying. The closure did take a bit longer than necessary, but didn't drag. The movie was actually well paced and I was never bored.

This is no Superbad. It's not anywhere in that league. I walked out of this movie saying "This is 2000's Road Trip." No, Road Trip wasn't a masterpiece or one of those comedy powerhouses, but it was really good for what it was going for. An over-the-top, R-rated comedy. See it with a group of friends in the theatre. Definitely see it with a crowd, it will probably make it that much more enjoyable. 3.75/5

Also, if you saw the trailer and had no interest, then you probably would want to skip it. It has it's intended audience, and will probably please those people and few others.

Reasonable Coming Of Age Comedy

[dt10111 · 6/10 · 23 October 2008]

I couldn't bash "Sex Drive" in good faith. For a comedy of its type, and all of you know what I mean by this coming of age sort of comedy, it had a lot of slow parts that weren't funny, and needless sentimentality that only served to slow the movie down. However, when it was funny, it was super funny.

The ongoing gags were pretty notable, and performances were top notch, notably by Seth Green as the sarcastic Amish guy. This may reign as best sarcastic performance in any movie, ever. The energy between the various performers was right and helped execute most of the gags effectively. As I mentioned, I have complaints, but they are trivial. If you want some goofy humor to eat popcorn to, give it a shot.

Unabashedly immature and not afraid to get dirty.

[Otoboke · 23 February 2009]

Okay, so, Sex Drive: It's rude, it's certainly crude, but is it actually in any way good? That's the question that faces many teenage comedies of similar nature these days; so very often over the past decade, the answer unfortunately has been a resounding and overwhelming 'no', but there always remains a select few reminders that even the dumbest of comedies can still thrive upon just that. Sex Drive is thankfully one of these films. It's outrageous and ridiculous in its portrayal of teenage romance, filled with characters that speak more broadly as caricature than real, definable human beings, but it all works –for the most part- in the favour of its silly, edgy routine. Sure enough, it's a film that is far more likely to put a smile on the younger faces of the audience, but that assessment goes without saying; in short, there's some good fun to be had here, but only if you don't mind the gross-out variants of humour and can appreciate the comedy on its own merits. Expect anything more than that, and you'll be disappointed.

For all intents and purposes, Sex Drive rarely ever strays far from the road of teenage rom-coms. Taking place for the most part on the open road where many comedians make brief cameo appearances as wacky characters that bump into the main cast, the narrative that binds Sex Drive's gags together is something that has been done to death. In this vein, the movie can get tiresome—and at 110 minutes long, the biggest flaw becomes the sometimes meandering, directionless pace of which moves the plot along. Sure enough such sprawling pit-stops are usually followed by a series of great, laugh out loud bursts of humour, but this incessant need to fill up space needlessly makes Sex Drive feel like a much longer drive than it actually is.

That being said, despite the formulated, familiar approach to this road trip story, Anders and Morris do well to capitalise on the stronger elements of such a narrative. The cameos never feel redundant and fabricated; the trip itself gives way to some great comical situations; and characters, believe it or not, actually grow (albeit, very slowly) over the course of the journey. Furthermore, behind all the profane, raunchy sex jokes and slapstick lies a straight forward, but nevertheless engaging unrequited love story that doesn't feel tacked on and as derivative as it plays out on page. It's a romance that never quite takes off, but with decent characterisation and performances from those involved, it's enough to give the story a warm core that pays out with an ending befitting of your average genre movie.

To watch a movie like Sex Drive for the romance however, is a bit like eating a hot dog for the bun; the real drawing power and force of conviction that draws you into the surreal, ridiculous world displayed here is through the characters, and the awkward, downright hilarious jams they get themselves into. For the most part, the movie strikes gold most when the comedy is just that—character driven—and it's always fun to watch lead character Ian (Josh Zuckerman) constantly get into uncomfortable, cringe-inducing moments of embarrassment.

Of course, a lot of such moments succeed primarily upon the clever, rat-a-tat, teenage colloquial dialogue that Anders and Morris accentuate through their script, but a lot of it also comes down to the performances of the cast who bring their characters to life vividly and with shades of naturalism that brings out the script's modern, laid back feel. As a result, Sex Drive all the more feels casual, and while this again reinforces the slack attitude devoted to the meandering pacing, such a style works well to give the movie a personality of its own that reflects its characters.

In the end, although I had some qualms with the movie's runtime, and it's sometimes unfocused approach to narrative, I nevertheless had fun with what Sean Anders delivers here. It's a relentlessly convincing picture with a youthful vision that many directors so often forget or simply neglect to touch upon when making such movies. As a result, Sex Drive will undoubtedly speak a lot clearer to younger audience members than their older counterparts, but if you happen to be a part of that demographic, then there is definitely some great laughs to be had here; unabashedly immature and not afraid to get dirty, Sex Drive is a long ride, but it's worth it in the end for the fun that it expels over that trip.

• A review by Jamie Robert Ward (http://www.invocus.net)

It was actually funnier than I expected

[steiner-sam · 6/10 · 14 June 2021]

This is set in modern times near Chicago and is a raunchy teenage comedy about a nerdy 18-year-old boy determined to lose his virginity. His adventures on a weekend trip to Tennessee include some Old Order Amish, which is why I watched the film.

Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) is a sincere kid who is bullied by his older brother, Rex (James Marsden), who mocks Ian's sexuality. Ian's best friends are Felicia (Amanda Crew) and Lance (Clark Duke). Ian would like a romantic/sexual relationship with Felicia, but she is interested in Lance. Lance is a confident operator who seems to be able to manage any situation, especially with girls.

Ian has developed an Internet relationship with Ms. Tasty, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He portrays himself as a major football player with a hot 1969 GTO (that actually belongs to Rex).

The movie follows the experiences of Ian, Lance, and Felicia after they steal Rex's car and head to Nashville "to visit grandma," as the guys tell Felicia. There is much crude language related to sex and other bodily functions, combined with flashes of skin along the way mixed with various adventures. One major event unfolds when the car breaks down, and a helpful Old Order Amishman, Ezekiel (Seth Green), offers to help and takes their car back to the Amish community where he has an auto repair and body shop. It appears Ezekiel spent a few years in Rumspringa. While there, they attend a wild Saturday-night rock concert in the community. Lance falls in love with an oversexed Amish girl named Mary (Alice Graczyn).

When they finally reach Nashville, they discover Ms. Tasty (Katrina Bowden) is not what she seemed on the Internet, and everyone ends up in jail overnight until bailed out by Mary, the Amish girl. Everything resolves properly at the end.

"Sex Drive" is R-rated for a reason -- mostly vulgar language and some sexuality. It was actually funnier than I expected. I imagine 16-year-old boys in 2008 loved it. One feels a bit like a teenager watching it.

The Amish portrayals, of course, have no connection to reality. There are buggies and plain clothes, but Mary's hair spills down to her waist. There are references to Rumspringa and shunning, but that's about the extent of cultural acknowledgment.

Katrina Bowden Worth the Drive.

[anaconda-40658 · 7/10 · 16 December 2015]

Sex Drive (2008): Dir: Sean Anders / Cast: Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Clark Duke, James Marsden, Katrina Bowden: Raunchy teen comedy about our inner urgings and a long drive Josh Zuckerman embarks upon with his friends, played by Amanda Crew and Clark Duke so that he can lose his virginity to a woman he met via Internet. Great setup establishes his home life and work where he plays mascot for a donut shop. Directed by Sean Anders with great location appeal. Zuckerman holds strong going from insecure to discovering hard facts about his intended dream date. Crew and Duke are well rounded as his accompanying friends. Zuckerman secretly likes Crew but claims to be visiting his sick grandmother when she joins the odyssey. The whole idea of him losing his virginity to her in the conclusion marks a negative message since many unplanned pregnancies occur from just such moments. Duke gets caught up in an Amish community where things aren't as traditional as first thought. James Marsden steals scenes as his overbearing homophobic brother. Katrina Bowden is the beautiful Internet lure that strings Zuckerman along with false hope. A case could be made regarding Internet relationships and the risks involved but that is hardly the ambition of this sex farce. It is at home in its vulgar teen spirit that may drive home to its target viewers. Score: 7 / 10

Nothing special except for the donut costume

[thiagooliveira · 6/10 · 12 October 2008]

Since this film was a comedy let's look at it in that light first. I saw this movie about a week ago and it had about two hilarious moments which I am having a hard time remembering. The rest of the film most of the audience sat there in silence, with sporadic giggles throughout. My friends whom I watched the pre-screening with said they were amused in general but didn't find the film very funny. This is probably because this film strongly uses clichés and old ideas that have just been reshuffled with relatively little originality.

The originality is this: The two main characters (the lead and his goofy friend) are in some sort of role reversal where their bodies and personalities are flipped and it's very hard to believe either can be themselves the way they are. The whole film I felt this way and and it was quite distracting, this may to some degree be attributed to the actors and Director failing to create believability and instead creating teen-comedy caricatures, but to the actors credit the three leads showed promise and could do better in a different movie.

The comedy itself has a lot of preteen raunchiness that appears so often and so strongly that if you were to see a naked old man showing his gonads like in the movie "Borat" you wouldn't be very shocked or surprised. Normally this would be funny, like in the scene in "American Pie" with the the pie; but since this film holds very little meaning below the obvious surface gags, the comedy punch doesn't land strongly if at all that often.

This film was also full of young beautiful actresses meant to portray the regular public as they cameo over and over again through most scenes. I don't recall one average looking young woman in the whole movie. This was slightly annoying because perhaps I was looking for something like "Dazed and Confused" and felt like was I was watching something a little better than "American Pie 3". What I mean is that this film is like "Superbad" where it's laden with raunchy teen comedy and some teen sexual angst. But unlike "Superbad" it doesn't have the deep underlying truths that elevate the script above boorish crude gags. If it weren't for those two hilarious scenes I failed to describe and perhaps the saving grace of the lead actors this film would be garbage. But it's not, and kudos to the Donut costume! If you are between the ages of 13-19 you'll probably like this film a bunch. Everybody else prepare to be mostly silently amused.

6/10

Well worn material, but not without its charm

[jtimmerman327 · 6/10 · 20 October 2008]

All in all, SexDrive wasn't a bad film. It obviously isn't Oscar-worthy, nor does it even stand out amongst its peers (while far stronger than College, it is on the same plain or perhaps a bit lower than Nick and Norah's). I entered this film with high hopes for it had a very strong trailer as witnessed before Tropic Thunder.

Unfortunately, this film did not meet all expectations. The strongest performance was had by James Marsden, who continues his meteoric rise through the annals of Hollywood. The former X-Men, Enchanted and 27 Dresses man showed versatility as the bad-ass big brother of the main protagonist Ian.

Ian himself was an unbelievably stereotyped character who was not at all realistic. I happen to be a sensitive, and in fact was involved in a relationship very similar to the friendship portrayed between the two main characters, however I can let you know that no one is that lame, and at no point did Ian seem real to me.

The character development was extremely spotty. The audience never really was able to connect with any of the characters, and the story line was only engaging about half the time.

The actual funny jokes were there though, and i guess that is the entire purpose of this film, therefore I guess it is more success than failure. I wish that they didn't focus so much on teenage stereotype and worked more into Amanda Crew's character because she is a beautiful young actress who could've used some more context.

The rating on here is nonsense

[kzucc-37279 · 8/10 · 12 June 2020]

Yes it's ridiculous. But all teen comedies are. The acting isnt top notch but which one of them is? Revisit "Animal House" and tell me every actor was up to par. People need to relax. This is a fun film. Its offensive, but even when it is the actors play it off and make us comfortable. Seth Green stole the movie with his phoned in (as it should be) performance as Ezekiel. This movie should be up there with 10 things I hate about you and I dare say American Pie, as a definitive comedy classic of a generation.

entertaining but meaningless

[Kieran_Oneill · 6/10 · 18 September 2020]

I thought it was a pretty good coming of age story, funny in my opinion, nothing good or bad to say about the acting and cinematography, the ending was uninspired and void of meaning but the movie was entertaining

Some fun moments. Average.

[gwest-58160 · 5/10 · 18 September 2018]

It was an average teen boy movie. I enjoyed some of it, there were some laughs mixed in with some tedious scenes.

Don't' Listen To Critics- Sex Drive Is Top 5 Comedies I've Ever Seen

[gg3333 · 10/10 · 23 February 2009]

There are several people who say that critics don't know anything... I find it funny in Hollywood how the best movies get rated terribly, and have a 28% rating on rottentomatoes 'tomatometer'...

I saw the preview for Sex Drive on myspace. The preview started off as a typical drive-across-the-country crazy-things-happen teen sex party movie. About halfway into the trailer I found myself laughing... and thinking "wow... something about this movie feels different. I think it's going to be really good. I don't want to wait til October, I want to watch it right now".

THREE WEEKS later three of my friends and I decided to see a last minute movie- I looked up Sex Drive only to find that it was only playing in one theater in our entire city (Denver) with only one showtime! 10:30 was the only showtime, if this was any indication of how the movie was I figured that it was going to be terrible- but I remembered how much I enjoyed the preview and coerced my friends to go see it. When we arrived the theater had only two other people in it, both middle-aged males sitting separately by themselves. Again- not a good sign...

The movie started out, and was instantly funny. We laughed, so did the others. I thought, "ok, any movie can make people laugh... it's not that hard a thing to do... let's see where this goes". The movie continued on, and I found myself loving the plot. Loving the script. Loving the (no-name) actors. Loving the directing. Loving the editing. Loving everything about it. But that's just me... everyone has different opinions. My three friends (who- might I mind you, have very different senses of humor) all felt the exact same way. We were crying at certain parts because we were laughing so hard. The other (two) people in the theater were laughing hysterically as well. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better- the movie turns to a love story, and everything throughout the whole movie comes together.

It finally ended, and I, and my three friends, sat there, in awe, about what we just saw. We left the theater and could not have been any happier about our movie choice.

I returned home to instantly look up reviews online about what others thought of this movie- and it blew my mind. The most terrible, awful things were said, and the movie's gross domestic total? $8,402,485. A BOMB.

I don't understand what it is people are looking for in a comedy. I will agree with others and say- yes, this has been done before. Yes, this movie is exactly what I thought it would be and what I wrote above (a typical drive-across-the-country crazy-things-happen teen sex party movie). Yes, this movie is predictable and familiar- but back to the question- what is it people are looking for in a comedy? This movie had every element of the $100,000,000+/movie American Pie series. Sex Drive should of made AT LEAST half that much.

I saw College recently- NOW THIS is a movie that deserved it's abysmal earnings of 4.5 million dollars. College's jokes were cheap, and seemingly desperate, as if almost begging for a laugh. And once again- yes, College made me (slightly) laugh- as I said before any comedy can- but what it did not do was leave me with a feeling of sheer joy and happiness that I took the time out of my night (and life) to watch it. Sex Drive left me with this feeling.

I believed Sex Drive to be perfect. In every aspect. I will address that, again, everyone's taste is different; everyone's brains interpret things differently and because of this not everyone will find Sex Drive to be perfect, in fact some may not find it funny it all- but I believe THE MAJORITY of people (9 out of 10) will realize, upon DVD release and word-of-mouth, that Sex Drive was the sleeper hit of 2008.

See this movie. It deserves much more money than it made and is well, well worth your time.

Update on THE SURE THING

[george.schmidt · 6/10 · 13 November 2008]

SEX DRIVE (2008) ** Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Clark Duke, James Marsden, Seth Green, Alice Grezyn, Katrina Bowden, Charlie McDermott, Mark L. Young, David Koechner. Hit-and- miss update of the teen sex comedy that steals liberally from '80s 'classics' like "The Sure Thing" and any John Hughes comedy, with Zuckerman (gratingly annoying to the film's detriment) seeking to lose his virginity by taking a road trip down south after his internet 'hottie' invites him to visit. Along for the trip are his best bud, Duke (making the most of the hilarity as an unikely stud) and platonic gal pal (Crew who equally is amiable/sexy) and some outrageous encounters (namely a well-versed Amish auto mechanic played drolly by Green) and Zuckerman's angry, jerk-off older bro Madsen (who displays some impressive comic chops in an homage to Bill Paxton's Chet from "Weird Science"). Ultimately forgettable but a digressive comedy none-the-less. (Dir: Sean Anders)

Funny but PLEASE can we move on....

[intelearts · 5/10 · 30 January 2009]

Don't get me wrong Sex Drive is crude, rude, smart, and funny.

My problem is this: I have seen it too many times now - really.

If this film had come out 10 years ago it would have been great but not it suffers from severe retread. Teen movies are starting to suffer from the same problem that John Hughes had in the 1980s - been there, done that.

We watched Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist the other night and then this and they are a universe apart. The first is a real film, with originality and laughs, and the second gets its laughs by pushing the buttons.

As I said this is funny, you will laugh, but boy, this kind of film is starting to get old...

Not funny at all.

[fortwenty · 27 August 2011]

Can you say "seen it before and seen it done better." It seems the shock value of seeing many shaved penises up close lost is humor after the first 30 seconds of the film when the intro show a up close black males penis for about a minute. I think they decided to try and pack as many dick jokes as they could because I do not this this movie goes 60 seconds with out having another dick joke. just about everything in the movie was predictable and seen way before it was done. This movie is a great example of the double standard in today's society. You can count on men being the butt end (and lots of front end) of every joke. Total new age chick flick.You will not see female nudity this explicit in movies unless it rated x or nc-17.

Sex Drive A Surprisingly Funny Comedy

[tburke85 · 7/10 · 19 May 2009]

When I started watching Sex Drive I wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be much better than I thought it would be. Sex Drive is no film for parents to take their kids to see but it's a funny coming of age story about one mans quest to lose his virginity. The talented cast of relatively unknowns including Josh Zuckerman as Ian the guy on the quest, Amanda Crew as the sexy Felicia who's Ian's best friend (and *spoiler* soul mate), and Clark Duke as their friend Lance the ladies man. Seth Green is perfectly cast as Ezekiel an Amish man who parties and fixes cars for free. The same can go for James Marsden as Ian's brother Rex who's great at playing a likable jerk with a hilarious secret. Both actors bring a lot to their small roles and provide some of the comic relief. Mostly everything in this film worked but adults should be warned that Sex Drive contains strong sexual content, nudity and vulgar language. But if you're a fan of comedies or the American Pie series than chances are you'll enjoy Sex Drive too.

Ezekiel Is Hilarious, I Love His Sarcasm.

[stef_nijssen · 6/10 · 23 October 2008]

Since this film was a comedy let's look at it in that light first. I saw this movie about a week ago and it had about two hilarious moments which I am having a hard time remembering. The rest of the film most of the audience sat there in silence, with sporadic giggles throughout. My friends whom I watched the pre-screening with said they were amused in general but didn't find the film very funny. This is probably because this film strongly uses clichés and old ideas that have just been reshuffled with relatively little originality.

The originality is this: The two main characters (the lead and his goofy friend) are in some sort of role reversal where their bodies and personalities are flipped and it's very hard to believe either can be themselves the way they are. The whole film I felt this way and and it was quite distracting, this may to some degree be attributed to the actors and Director failing to create believability and instead creating teen-comedy caricatures, but to the actors credit the three leads showed promise and could do better in a different movie.

The comedy itself has a lot of preteen raunchiness that appears so often and so strongly that if you were to see a naked old man showing his gonads like in the movie "Borat" you wouldn't be very shocked or surprised. Normally this would be funny, like in the scene in "American Pie" with the the pie; but since this film holds very little meaning below the obvious surface gags, the comedy punch doesn't land strongly if at all that often.

This film was also full of young beautiful actresses meant to portray the regular public as they cameo over and over again through most scenes. I don't recall one average looking young woman in the whole movie. This was slightly annoying because perhaps I was looking for something like "Dazed and Confused" and felt like was I was watching something a little better than "American Pie 3". What I mean is that this film is like "Superbad" where it's laden with raunchy teen comedy and some teen sexual angst. But unlike "Superbad" it doesn't have the deep underlying truths that elevate the script above boorish crude gags. If it weren't for those two hilarious scenes I failed to describe and perhaps the saving grace of the lead actors this film would be garbage. But it's not, and kudos to the Donut costume! If you are between the ages of 13-19 you'll probably like this film a bunch. Everybody else prepare to be mostly silently amused.

6/10

Great Outta My Dreams & Into My Car

[drivemenutzlong · 6/10 · 31 March 2020]

Predictible & over done yet fun road trip movie with some gross out moments littered throughout. Harmless-almost mindless-fun.

is this a remake?

[brainwerx-1 · 7/10 · 17 October 2008]

Seems to me that this movie is an updated version of The Sure Thing, with John Cusack & Daphne Zuniga, or am I wrong here!? Still thought it was really funny!!! Well this is ridiculous, apparently making a point requires that one actually write more words than are necessary. So be it. The movie itself is funny, the kids are a scream and well worth watching. I don't understand why it is getting an R rating in the US though? After seeing it, I think 18A is sufficient. I did not really see anything in there that would confuse kids or should offend parents. I think that it is a little raunchier that Nick and Norah, but overall not that radically different in terms of the things that are being said or how they are being said.

Easily, One of the funniest movies of 08'!!

[michael11391 · 9/10 · 18 October 2008]

I loved every minute of this movie!! If you are looking for a non-stop constantly-falling-out-of-your-seat film, then Sex Drive is perfect for you. It is an instant teen comedy classic, in my books. James Mardsen and Seth Green steals the show but up and coming actors: Josh Zuckerman and Clark Duke did extremely well for themselves and prove themselves to be the next big thing in the future. It is just about as funny than Superbad and American Pie (1,2,3) and the plot of the movie was just so simple and well-made. Hopefully, Sex Drive will be a teen classic in the next few years because it's extremely funny, raunchy & has a little bit of it's sweet side, too. Sex Drive is awesome and super hilarious!!!

Enjoyable and Funny

[Floated2 · 6/10 · 30 June 2010]

I saw this film by some requests by friends, and I found it to be quite good. It wasn't that great or amazing but it had its moments. Also it seems very similar to Eurotrip, Roadtrip, but it has its differences. I found this to be better than those 2 movies because this film goes into more detail and it is funnier. Although this movie is a little unrealistic and fake. Like why did he go all the way just to meet the girl, and she ended up being real but she was just fooling him. Also the characters were alright but some were annoying. The main character Ian's best friend was beyond annoying and unbelievable. He was always treating his friend bad and he was the one getting the girls-- that was hilarious. The girl was alright, and the older brother was also okay The movie is enjoyable but it can also be boring at times, and some moments are only funny. Though some people may find something funnier than others...Anyways the movie is worth checking out for those who like this kind of stuff. Overall It could have been much better. As a rewatch of nearly 14 years later 04.19.24' opinions for most part remain same. Enjoyable comedy, not as funny as remembered. The typical juvenile crude humour with a predictable and happy ending.

Huh?

[liamtoh55 · 2/10 · 30 June 2009]

What is the matter with people here? This movie is a complete train wreck from start to finish! Even Seth Green couldn't drag this film up into the realms of good humour. The main cast is pretty damn bad, and some sort of failed attempt at creating another American Pie bunch of kids, plus the story is boring and goes nowhere. You can spot the moments that the creators thought were particularly funny, as they are pushed right into your face much harder than the rest of the drivel, but this just makes those moments all the more embarrassing for not being funny at all.

Do not watch this film... Trust me... And if you do see it, I know you will see that I was right.

I Am Still Laughing

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 31 July 2009]

In the suburb of Chicago, the eighteen year-old Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a naive and virgin teenager that is mocked by his homophobic brother Rex (James Marsden) and his schoolmates; his best friends are Felicia (Amanda Crew) and the wolf Lance (Clark Duke). When Ian meets a girl called Tasty (Katrina Bowden) in Internet, he writes many lies about himself; when she invites him to drive to Knoxville, Tennessee, to have sex with her, Ian steals Rex's GTO Judge 1969 and travels with Lance and Felicia. When they have trouble on the road with the car, the Amish Ezekiel (Seth Green) offers to help them in his community. Lance meets the Amish Mary (Alice Greczyn) and they fall in love for each other. During their travel, Ian and Felicia discover that their feelings are more than friendship and that Tasty is not who she told she is.

I am still laughing with "Sex Drive" since this movie is one of the funniest comedies that I have recently seen. There are many gross jokes, beautiful tits and girls and enjoyable characters. The cynical Seth Green is simply hilarious in the role of a sympathetic Amish. The scene when Ian is on the stage watching the dancers backstage while a pregnant girl is telling her sad story is so funny that I needed to stop the movie just to laugh. The last scene with Amanda Crew in the end of the credits is also very funny, and I believe many people probably lost this joke. If you are intellectual, or if you do not like this type of movie, please do not spend your time to write bad reviews in IMDb. I can not understand how a viewer can be surprised with the content of a comedy that begins the way "Sex Drive" does. Amanda Crew, Katrina Bowden, Alice Greczyn and all the female cast are incredibly gorgeous. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Sex Drive"

Raunchy teen sex comedy road trip

[SnoopyStyle · 7/10 · 26 March 2014]

Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a suffering virgin high school senior in Chicago. His brother Rex (James Marsden) is always picking on him. His best friends are best-girl Felicia (Amanda Crew) and smart-mouthed Lance (Clark Duke). When his online girl Ms_Tasty offers to go all the way, he steals Rex's 69 GTO to go on a cross country trip to Knoxville with Felicia and Lance.

The three leads have great chemistry and are charming together. Josh is wonderfully dorky. Amanda is super sweet. Clark is brilliantly talky. The sex talk is especially raunchy. James Marsden is trying a little too hard. Most of the humor works. It's a raunchy teen sex comedy road trip that is better than most.

Why aren't they being sued?

[Lmader45 · 1/10 · 22 December 2008]

You know when two people from the same family have a kid it can result in down syndrome....

So when I say that Sex Drive is the love child of 'American Pie' and 'Road Trip' I am referring to it in that manner, not as a compliment! 1. The main character, Ian, is an absolute rip off of Jim from American Pie, but without the heart or empathy that Jim garnered.

2. He's older brother and best friend are both part Stifflers. The older brother plays the jerk who makes gay references the entire time, while he's best friend plays the objectifying and womanizing lothario. Unfortunately, you actually liked Stiffler though. Of course you did. We all know who Sean William Scott is now. If nobody had heard of X-men then James Marsden would have just killed he's career even more so.

3. The best friend, the womanizer, is played by a fat dorky guy named Clark Duke. Makes sense. Women are falling over themselves to sleep with the fat dorky guy. But wait, he's referred to as cool in the movie! Why? Nobody knows. He never does anything except say 'chill out' or some crap that makes him irresistible to women. Upon watching the movie I wondered why I recognized this guy and then I remembered the superbad DVD commentary. They mention Clark Duke cause he kept jumping into every scene in the house party ruining continuity. I also remember when I watched it thinking 'who is that fat dorky looking emo in nearly every shot'. Congratulations Clark Duke. You can tell your grandkids you were in a funny movie. Yeah, the one where you never say any lines and try to ruin it! 4. This movie is completely summarized in one quote by Clark Duke near the end of the film when he turns to the camera and says 'These things never happen in real life'.

This sums up this movie entirely. Everything in this movie NEVER happens in real life. It's absurd, ludicrous and downright stupid.

Let me just give you one, and one example alone, of the stupidity of this movie.

The movie is about a virgin who drives across the country to finally have sex with a hot blonde girl who will screw him...BUT...10 minutes into the movie he crawls away from a hot blonde girl who is practically trying to rape him on a bed cause he's friend asks where he is......???? WTF

If you had a choice between anaesthesia-free amputation of your balls and watching a movie that insults your intelligence like Sex Drive does, I definitely recommend becoming the eunich soprano for your local church choir.