Movie Reviews

Summit Pictures

Review in a Hurry: When a girl on the Internet propositions him, 18-year-old virgin Ian (Josh Zuckerman) steals his brother's hot rod and drives from Chicago to Nashville to meet her. Along for the ride are his geeky-yet-confident, womanizing buddy Lance (Clark Duke), the platonic best friend he's seriously crushing on (Amanda Crew), and a bunch of jokes that were done better in Road Trip.

The Bigger Picture: We'll say this for Sex Drive: Unlike the majority of teen sex comedies nowadays, it thankfully doesn't resort to nonstop repellent gross-outs. Unfortunately, it doesn't find much to replace them with, either. When an early scene reveals that Ian's place of employment is a Mexican-themed donut stand that's advertising a new guacamole donut, you get a good sense of where the movie's going.

Later, a large percentage of the onscreen jokes involve the Amish. Yes, the Amish. Seth Green has some fun playing an Amish dude who rarely gets a chance to use sarcasm, but unless you've never heard an Amish joke before...

Oh, yeah, there are also jokes about rednecks, teen abstinence programs, old people and prison rape. Stop us if you've heard them before. Better yet, stop the filmmakers.

Where the movie does occasionally work is on the sidelines: James Marsden is unrecognizable and hilarious as Ian's meatheaded homophobe of a big brother, while Charles McDermott and Mark L. Young steal all their scenes as Randy and Andy, a stoned Beavis-and-Butt-Head-type duo who shamelessly overestimate their pickup skills.

The 180—a Second Opinion: Well, it's not like teen comedies really thrive on originality to begin with. If you think the giant Mexican donut costume on the poster looks hilarious, you'll probably enjoy the rest. Also, you like Fall Out Boy? They're in it.