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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780783250816 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 0783250819 Label: Dreamworks Video Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Dreamworks Video Release Date: May 22, 2001 Running Time: 93 minutes Sales Rank: 30788 Studio: Dreamworks Video Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 2000
Amazon.com: Road Trip is a mostly agreeable, by-the-numbers teen flick with a handful of inspired sequences, most of them involving MTV's resident disturbed soul, Tom Green. It concerns a sleepy University of Ithaca student named Josh (Breckin Meyer) who accidentally mails a video of his sexual encounter with an infatuation (Amy Smart) to his longtime girlfriend (Rachel Blanchard), who's seemingly avoiding him while at school in Austin, Texas. Naturally, he recruits some buddies--Seann William Scott as the lech, D.J. Qualls as the hopeless nerd, and Paulo Costanzo as the doper genius--to hit the open highway and intercept the package. Even more naturally, mayhem ensues: A car explodes, a bus is stolen, a nerd is deflowered, French toast is horribly violated, and an elderly man bogarts both pot and Viagra.
The film's humor is more democratic than politically correct, as everyone--women and minority characters, not just the hipster white guys--have a hand in the high jinks. Green plays Barry Manilow (no, not that one), a professional student (eight years and counting)--he relates the film's story to skeptical prospective students while leading them on a tour of the college--and thrill-seeking dork extraordinaire. In particular, in an already justly famous sequence of scenes, he sadistically anticipates and endeavors to accelerate a mouse's demise at the jaws of a python. It's very much in the vein of American Pie, perhaps a smidgen tamer, but at least its characters don't really learn any dopey lessons in the end. Director and coscreenwriter Todd Phillips, who earlier made the much-questioned documentary Frat House, again proves he's more adept at staging fictional comic sequences than real ones. --David Kronke
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - TAKE THE TRIP
French toast, anyone? I wasn't expecting much when I pulled this from the bargain bin, and later threw it on the dvd player as I was packing some stuff. Pretty soon though I found it hard not to pay attention. After a few of the gut busting laughs this movie put me through, I was pretty much along for the ride with Road Trip! Something like American Pie in it's humor.. Really, there are too many scenes that are just hilarious - it's not high art - it's just good ole fashioned coarse teen humor - some really funny #*&$! in this movie.
Rating: - Did you kill a cheetah!?
Road Trip is just that - a wonderfully complex adventure, a road trip shared between four college dorm-mates where incredible hijinks and comedy occurs from beginning to end.
Josh (Breckin Meyer) is a student at the University of Ithaca (NY), and has been sending tapes to his girlfriend of many years. They've been sappy, with bad singing and lame poetry. Unfortunately for his girlfriend Tiffany, who attends college in Texas, she had a death in the family and went incognito for a few days. Josh began to doubt their relationship, and took the opporunity to bed Beth (Amy Smart), a ... Read More
Rating: - Good for a few laughs.
Ah, Road Trip. A typical party/college movie. If your idea of a good movie includes sex jokes, Tom Green's humor, and a so-so storyline, Road Trip is the movie for you.
Here's what the movie is about. Tiffany and Josh have known each other since they were just little kids. Their relationship grows and grows as they get older and they become a couple. When the two of them seperate for college, they vow to be faithful to each other. After Josh doesn't hear from Tiffany in a couple of days, he assumes he's cheating on her and has a one night stand with another girl. The twist? They tape ... Read More
Rating: - Road Trip (UNRATED)
Another one of my top favorites, Halarious through the entire movie, i cant stop laughing everytime i see it.
Rating: - When American Pie Was At Its Height, There Was Road Trip
If you like the typical teenage comedy, then you should give this movie a try. It does fall for some of the routine story lines that are in every movie like this, but it is still a funny movie. The best part is probably when they visit Tom Green's grandparents. I never can get over the dog that talks, lol. Overall, like I said, if you like teen comedies then you will like this movie. Avoid it if you don't
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