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ROAD TRIP is a raunchy and remarkably unfunny college comedy about four guys on an emergency run from Ithaca to Austin to recover an incriminating videotape. As the title suggests, they wreck a car, run out of money, try to *raise* money (at a sperm bank, where else?), steal a bus, get into a fight, crash an all-black frat house, get laid, smoke pot, and witness an old man's boner knock over a knick-knack at someone's grandmother's house. Alas, very, *very* little of it is either (a.) actually funny or (b.) hasn't been shown in the trailer. (There *is* one big howl, however, in- volving a procedure called "milking the prostate" at said sperm bank.) The biggest rip-off, though, is that director Todd Phil- lips doesn't even devote *half* the screen time to the road war- riors. Instead, he keeps cutting away to a guy obsessed with fe- eding a pet snake, another girl going to Boston, and the concerned parents of one of the kids. Yawn times three. Did I mention the unnecessary (and also unfunny) framing device? Or the numerous musical montages (ugh), the worst of which watches the boys sing- ing along with Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock?" It, like, sucks, dude. With Breckin Meyer, Sean William Scott, DJ Qualls, Paolo Costanzo, Amy Smart, and a painful Tom Green. Frankly, he's all but unwatchable. (Rated "R"/93 min.) Grade: C- Copyright 2000 Michael J. Legeros Movie Hell is a trademark of Michael J. Legeros
Originally posted to triangle.movies in MOVIE
HELL: May 21, 2000