It is interesting to see the new sex comedy Road Trip being compared to recent forays into the same genre of American Pie and There’s Something About Mary. All three films use low-brow humor to gain laughs and have similar jokes embedded inside them. But Road Trip, for all its silliness and crudeness, and in spite of a couple of humorous moments by MTV icon Tom Green, is not even in the same league as Pie and Mary. You see the makers of Road Trip forgot a couple of key ingredients which made the previous two movies so genial. They forgot the heart and the consistent humor.
Director Todd Phillips’ Road Trip is so redundant and empty that it does not even deserve to be compared to movies more worthy of our viewing time. It is like the producers figure they have an immediate hit on their hands. Just throw in a bunch of college students who care more about getting in bed with the ladies and doing a nice doobie instead of studying for their finals and you have a hit! The characters in Mary and Pie were extremely likeable. That is what gave those movies their charm. The young men in Road Trip are not even close to being as likeable. In fact I sometimes felt like jumping into the screen and slapping some sense into them. Their exploits are also not even half as funny or crazy in this film.
Their slowness of mind is also not very appealing. Instead of studying for a big final, our hero (or loser) Josh takes a road trip from Ithaca, NY to Austin, TX to stop a videotape from getting to his girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard). A videotape of him doing the nasty with a coed named Beth (Amy Smart). It is so nice seeing young people today being so faithful to their significant others.
The 3 guys who join Josh on his journey are E.L. (Sean William Scott), Kyle (DJ Qualls), and Rubin (Paulo Costanzo). In a good movie the film would use this road trip as an excuse for some good male bonding. But all this film does is quickly take us through their journey with stops to an all black fraternity, a sperm bank, and the house of a drug addicted grandfather. Tom Green is the narrator of the film. He plays Barry a lifetime resident of Ithaca and 6 year college student. He stays behind to take care of and feed Rubin’s pet snake. This is a set up for a rather disgusting scene of Green putting a live mouse in his mouth in order to entice the snake to eat the mouse.
If anything, Road Trip teaches us that if a formula works for one movie, you can not take out the substance and expect it to work again. That is just nonsense. I assume one could say that director Todd Phillips does show some promise as a director of comedies. The genuine problem with the film is the screenplay written by Phillips and Scot Armstrong. With a complete lack of good taste and a struggle to keep us laughing, the screenplay needed some good polishing. A cast of better performers may have been a good idea since no performance in the film tends to stand out. Green may have a film career ahead of him though if given the right material.
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