Road Trip Movie
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The greatest college tradition of all time.
Its good.
Love is never having to say you're sorry you made a sex tape with a woman then mailed it to your girlfriend.
A group of raucous, college buds living the Frat life decide to have a blowout with a Road Trip of insane proportions. Dad's car, hard partying, nubile and Nubian Princesses, a boa constrictor and Tom Green make for a great trip down comedy lane.
| Paulo Costanzo | Rubin Carver |
| Seann William Scott | E.L. |
| Ethan Suplee | Ed |
| Breckin Meyer | Josh Parker |
| Amy Smart | Beth Wagner |
| DJ Qualls | Kyle Edwards |
| Rachel Blanchard | Tiffany Henderson |
| Anthony Rapp | Jacob |
| Andy Dick | Motel Clerk |
| Edmund Lyndeck | Jack Manilow, Barry's Grandpa |
| Jessica Cauffiel | |
| Marla Sucharetza | Sperm Bank Nurse |
| Ellen Albertini Dow | |
| Fred Ward | Earl Edwards |
| Tom Green | Barry Manilow |
| Horatio Sanz | French Toast Guy |
| Rhoda Griffis | Tour Group Mom |
| Todd Phillips |
6.30 out of 10 (18512 votes)
Visitor Reviews
As good as the American Pie Trilogy? In a way, yes
posted on 26 Aug 2009SPOILERSIt's hard to know what to say about "Road Trip" really. Done in 2000, right in the middle between "American Pie" and "American Pie 2", this film carries on the traditions that the original Pie film introduces, and whilst it lacks the coming of age meaning, it is still worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as the Pie Trilogy.In "Road Trip", Josh (Breckin Meyer.. soon to be seen as Jon Arbuckle in "Garfield"), E.L. (Seann William Scott in Stifler mode), Rubin (Paulo Costanzo) and Kyle (DJ Qualls) embark on a road trip from Ithika University all the way to Austin University a total of 1,800 miles away. On the way the guys have many crazy experiences happen to them, and things then round themselves off nicely. Truth be told, that's about the whole plot. As was shown in "Master & Commander" three years later however, a simplistic plot is not necessarily a bad thing.Ok, I admit it's not going to take much time to analyse this film, but that is a good thing. "Road Trip" contains typical gross-out humour, standard acting by a young cast, the inevitable scenes of brief nudity and ultimately everything to keep a teenage boy happy.Truthfully, I can't really think of anything bad to say about this movie. I could insult Tom Green, but for once the guy makes me laugh a lot and I'm grateful for his participation. The soundtrack is excellent, scripting as you'd generally expect, and even the limited special effects (for example, a car blowing up) are done to acceptable levels.Whilst it may not have the originality of the very first "American Pie" film, "Road Trip" is still something which people can watch over and over again. It doesn't stretch the brain at all, and it wouldn't win any awards. However, if you love the "American Pie" films, then I can't think of any reason for you to hate this. Sit back, relax, shut your brain off, and enjoy.
Better than "There is Something About Mary" Funnier than "American Pie"
posted on 04 Aug 2009Okay first off I am sick of hearing all these people trying to compare this movie to "There is Something About Mary" and "American Pie." I only did it to state a fact. First off, its just a movie made to make people laugh and all these people are getting worked up about how it doesn't live up to the above mentioned movies or how its too gross. This movie is hilarious hitting just the right buttons. The actors are perfect and deliver outstanding material. The characters in this movie are also people you can see yourself hanging out with in college or in high school. If you go into the theatre expecting this oscar worthy, Titanic like movie than you'll be disappointed because you can tell from the previews that it is just meant for fun. You can't take this movie seriously just enjoy it because its a step away from the boring drama of a lot of movies they got out there today. Its funny, and I laughed on every seen. And all these people saying "Oh there is too much nudity, a no good-done before plot" all I have to say is there really wasn't that much nudity (not compared to some movies out there) and well the plot may have been done before but not this funny! I truly recommend this movie for a night full of laughs. If you'll notice a lot of people giving bad reviews are still saying that they laughed in a few parts. Thats simply because no matter how you try and twist it, this movie was funny and enjoyable. Paulo, Breckin, D.j, Tom and Scott I applaude you all on a job very well done.
Shame on me
posted on 27 Jul 2009Shame on me for wanting to watch this stupid american movie!! Just america would do this kind of (beep). You can do some great movies, but sure some times it feels like making money is not enough. Treat the audience like they are "stupid". Not even a simple gag was funny. What a waste of time!Be reasonable, don't watch it and if you did, I'm sorry.
Ouch, I'm glad I didn't pay to see this.
posted on 17 Jul 2009Sometimes I feel guilty about watching an MPEG rip, but in this case I'm very, very glad that I didn't pay money to see this insipid reworking of Animal House / Caddyshack. It's a joyless grind, and don't watch without an umbrella because it practically hisses and spits its contempt of you out of the screen. There's no joy or originality in here, just cynically calculated formulaic sex-pain-gross fest. You don't even get the feeling that it might have been fun to shoot, like American Pie.If you liked this film, well, then I hope you paid money to see it. You deserve to get screwed.
I laughed out loud several times druring the movie.
posted on 17 Jun 2009I found this movie very funny and well worth the matinee price that I paid to see it.It was by no means a classic. I found the plotline to be sub-par compared to many other rowdy, raunchy, college comedies. However there was enough to the humor that I could overlook the plot and just have a good time laughing.I'll rate it an 8. Not a classic, but it made me laugh and feel better.
For some reason i feel like hitting tom green over the head with a 4x4
posted on 03 Jun 2009oh my god what a waste of time. Tom Green is so stupid, and he looks ugly as hell when he makes them animal noises. When he put the rat in his mouth, i felt so sorry for the rat, since now its all nasty cause of tom green's mouth. Josh was cool, but thats about it, and that blonde girl looks good, but thats about it. Lame ass story line, and almost everyone else in the movie made me want to crucify them. i hate movies like this, because i wish they spent the money for this movie on saving the rainforest of preserving wild eagles or something. But thats about it on this dumb ass movie
Laughed My Butt Off!
posted on 24 May 2009Todd Phillips has created in Road Trip, a movie that hasn't only grasped the comic genius of American Pie, but a film for teenagers that directly relates to teenagers. The gags flow throughout focusing the comedy on the strange period and learning process that is coming-of-age. Seann Scott is hilarious as E.L. once again proving himself as a great deliverer of comic lines as he did as Stifler in American Pie. Great performances and well paced. Tom Green shows once again why he is a natural generator of comedy. If you liked American Pie and Dude Wheres My Car, you'll love this. I give it ***** out of ***** for making my laugh out loud all the way through. A great movie to rent when you've got a bunch of friends around.
Hilarious Road Comedy
posted on 22 May 2009Road Trip was another outrageous movie written by Todd Philips and Scot Armstrong. You may not think, but this movie contains a lot of hilarious moments. It is almost like twenty years after the 80's ended we got yet another movie that seemed like the 80's era, but this was actually very funny. You might not think so because most movies that spin off like an 80's movie normally suck, but this was very good. Breckin Meyer was moderately funny for a change starring alongside Seann William-Scott among others. This is really worth checking out because it was a outrageous road movie that really delivered in the laugh department. Very funny stuff.7/10
Gross-out movie can't quite compare with American Pie
posted on 12 May 2009I admit it; I laughed at "American Pie". I laughed at the recognition of the humiliation the characters put themselves through, the exaggeration of the basic, over-the-top approach teenagers can take when they deal with the topic of sex. I laughed even at scenes that I found disgusting, perhaps because they did what Mel Brooks always claimed his movies did, when he sniffed "They rise below vulgarity". Yes, indeed I laughed, because the material isn't what counts as much as how it's presented.**(Mild spoilers ahead:)** "Road Trip" also made me laugh. I laughed at scenes involving a snake and Tom Green, a manic, flaked-out guy who tried desperately to get the snake to eat a mouse so that it can experience "what it is to be at the lowest rung of nature". I laughed at how this scene played out, and chucked lightly at the way he handles a campus tour after explaining that he has been attending this college, Ithaca University in New York state, for 8 years. He knows it better than anyone, but still claims the library was built in "the 1600's" even though the cornerstone plainly reads 1951.I also laughed at other scenes, involving the doomed trip of a Ford Taurus and the way the characters have a sort of natural, unforced way of talking that still seemed funny. I did not laugh at much of the movie, which at times seems lost in a wasteland of strange characters, weird situations, and really gross ideas that didn't seem to fit with it's overall tone. I will say that it will be a while before I will eat French toast again, and that a scene with a talking dog is too creepy to be truly funny.The movie's plot is set in motion by a videotape made by Josh (Breckin Meyer) with a girl he met at a campus party, Beth (Amy Smart) as they have sex. He sleeps with her because he thinks his longtime girlfriend, Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard) is blowing him off by not returning his messages, but in reality her grandfather passed away, and she was staying at her mother's house. He discovers this after the horror of realizing his tape of him and Beth was mailed to Tiffany in a mixup. He has three days to reach Austin, Texas, where Tiffany is attending college, to get the tape back before she gets it. This is really just a setup for a road movie and a clothesline on which to hang all the gags.I guess I got what I paid for. The movie doesn't aspire to be any more than this year's gross-out flick, a tradition started by the Farrelly brothers in "There's Something About Mary". I liked that movie a lot, because it had the bravery to go for broke, and had a sunny disposition that allowed the characters to wade through it's mire of grossness cheerfully. "Road Trip" is too aware of itself, too dependent of disgusting sight gags to be considered really original. By the time a character waggles his bare butt in front of a video camera, I was marvelling at how creatively bankrupt the screenplay was.The movie isn't all bad, it just doesn't try very hard to be good. It doesn't rise below vulgarity, it remains firmly mired in it. Gross gags can be very funny, if presented in a way that focuses on the irony, rather than how disgusting it is. The beer scene in "Pie" was funny even though I gag just thinking about it, because the characters' reaction was funny. In "Road Trip" the gags come by themselves, mainly; the characters are largely unaware of how nasty a situation they've gotten themselves into. It's not how disgusting it is that makes a scene funny, it's how it affects the characters. Without that payoff, you may as well stick your fingers down your throat; at least that won't cost you eight bucks.The movie is confusing in some scenes and there is one in which we are left to wonder if an event occured or not, based on whether or not you understand if it was a dream (or not). I couldn't piece this together until the end, and still can't be sure. I wonder if the filmmakers realized what they were doing here, and how empty it. But I admit I'll remember the sight of Tom Green with that mouse in his mouth. Maybe they should just go ahead and give the guy his own movie.
Road Trip Scores Big!!
posted on 06 May 2009This is an extremely funny movie that feeds up to the college stereotype. Four guys go on the road to stop a sex tape that Beth(Amy Smart) and Josh(Breckin Meyer) made one night from reaching Josh's girlfriend in Austin, Texas(Rachel Blanchard from tv's Clueless show). Along with Tom Greens' ever so crazy antics and a little help from one of the guys from American Pie and an unknown actor helps the movie score big with laughs. If you are in the mood for an off-the-wall road trip of your own then go see this hilarious movie!
Somewhat entertaining.
posted on 02 May 2009A somewhat entertaining comic adventure about a college student (Breckin Meyer) who takes three other friends (William Seann Scott, D.J. Squalls, and Paul Constanzo) with him on the road from New York to Texas to retrieve a tape before his longtime girlfriend receives it. The film tries to be both "American Pie" and "Animal House" at the same time. I like the idea, but how it's presented ruins the movie. Despite that, the movie has assembled a fairly good supporting cast (Rachael Blanchard, Amy Smart, Fred Ward, and Tom Green, who is the film's goofy narrator). The performances by Qualls, Green, and Ward, make the movie worth watching.
Not without it's funny moments.
posted on 30 Apr 2009On the cover of all the sell through DVD's and Video's it has plastered all over the cover "What you didn't see at the cinema" " Unseen & Explicit" well after just watching this i am at a loss to as what they cut out when it was shown at the cinema. As far as adult humour goes Road Trip is quite tame compared to recent American college movies. That is not to say this film does not have any funny moment's because it does . Not enough for my liking. It has the usual college romp feel about it which is a shame because there are far to many of these type of films and i hope this is the last for a very long time. This stars Tom Green who is aparently the next big thing in the States. He obviously had an off day when he decided to star in Road Trip.Not a bad film but we have seen it all before. 6 out of 10.
Yet another waste of money...
posted on 18 Apr 2009Ok, it was an 'ok' film... but I just cant understand why so much money is spent on films that are more to 'make' money rather than quality.Few cheap laughs, few good laughs, but it's all been seen before - got the 'Can Guess The Ending' feel - which doesn't leave you unhappy.See it if you must, if you miss it - don't worry, you haven't missed much apart from saving yourself some money.
Can't be compared to American Pie
posted on 12 Apr 2009Why can't it be compared to American Pie? Don't get me wrong it's worth seeing but it's not funny enough.Someone mentioned in a review that you feel more for the characters in American Pie than Road Trip and it's true. The only character I had any emotion for is Kyle when the car explodes and that's about it. In American Pie I felt sorry for Jim with the pie incedent, the shirt falling off the webcam and being tortured by everyone in school the next day. I felt sorry for Finch with the bathroom incedent, wasting a lot of money and having no date. I felt sorry for Kevin when he said something in front of the cruel Vicky which made her dump him. I felt sorry for Ostreicher when Stifler showed him up in front of Heather. I even felt sorry for Stifler when his girlfriend said she couldn't go to the prom with him. EL is Road Trip's version of Stifler but isn't as funny though it was another good performance by Seann William Scott but he was far better in American Pie as Stifler. Josh I would say if any character out of AP he was like it would be Oz but Oz is more faithful. Rubin is a pot smoking weirdo that is nothing like the characters in AP. Kyle is a geeky version of Jim. He makes a fool of himself but Jim at least got a nice girlfriend but Kyle did not. Road trip even fails to be as dirty as AP. There isn't as many jokes.The plot is Josh tapes a message to be sent on to his girlfriend Tiffany in Austin. He also tapes himself being unfaithful with Beth. He gets Rubin to send it to Tiffany but he sends the wrong tape and its a race against time to get to Austin.Well worth seeing but if you haven't seen American Pie see it.
The Funniest Gross Movie of 2000
posted on 06 Apr 2009This movie is REALLY funny, but it's totally a "guy" movie. The cast are great. They can really make the audience laugh and laugh all the time. The nudity is not necessary but they're having it anyway. It makes this movie the funniest gross movie of 2000! Guys, don't bring your girlfriends along or you'll be embarrassed!
Dull
posted on 27 Mar 2009Predictable. Average. Frequently unfunny. Childish.Some bloke travels across the country to save his girl from viewing a video that she shouldn't be. His friends go along. They get into all kinds of "hilarious" situations.At least there could have been some imagination to it!
Awesome
posted on 15 Mar 2009How anyone cannot like this movie is beyond me. While its no Godfather, its an excellent movie. Its sad to see that people would actually give this move a 1 or 2 rating, I say these people have no sense of humor, and they should not even be watching this movie. I give this movie 8 out of 10. I tell everyone I know to watch it. Go rent this movie, no dont rent it buy it, you will be happy you did.
This movie reminds me of my cousin.
posted on 17 Feb 2009This movie did exactly what my cousin did!! LOL. Some college guy and his buddies accidentally mail a sex tape to one of the guys girlfriends of him and another woman. They set out on a hilarious road trip adventure across the country. WATCH IT!!
Tom Green is excellent.
posted on 30 Aug 2009A college student videotapes an after hour liaison with a fellow student, but the problem is he has a girlfriend and a friend accidently mailed it to her. Very, very funny with a breakout performance by Tom Green. The rest of the cast isn't so bad either. A "Road Trip" you'll want to take, but you may hate yourself in the morning for liking this so much. Rating: 6.5 out of 10.