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kristin1963
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Another Road Trip Review.. ROAD TRIP Tom Green in "Road Trip." MOVIE INFORMATION Stars: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott and Tom Green Director: Todd Phillips Rated: Rated R, with profanity, nudity and violence Length: 92 minutes By Marshall Fine Gannett News Service (May 19, 2000) -- An Animal House for the new century, Road Trip is a college sex comedy that's as old as the hills. Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scot Armstrong, Road Trip is your basic gross-out comedy about near-adults taking the kind of irresponsible fling only college kids can get away with. A compendium of visual gags, sex and dope jokes, Road Trip has as many funny moments as last year's pretender to this crown, American Pie -- and as many that fall flat. It's secret weapon is MTV's Tom Green, as Barry, a perennial enrollee at the mythical University of Ithaca, who serves as the film's narrator and one of its funniest characters. While conducting a highly unorthodox tour of the campus for potential students and their parents, he launches into the saga of four of his friends: Josh, E.L., Rubin and Kyle. Josh (Breckin Meyer, who looks like a vertically challenged Noah Wyle) has been in a relationship with Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard) since they were in first grade. But she's at veterinarian school in Austin, Texas, while he's in Ithaca, N.Y., trying to stay faithful. When circumstances conspire to make him believe Tiffany has strayed, Josh succumbs to the blandishments of classmate Beth (Amy Smart), who seduces him one night after a party -- and videotapes the proceedings. The next day, Josh discovers that his roommate Rubin (Paulo Costanzo) has accidentally mailed the tape to Tiffany. His solution? Drive to Texas to retrieve the tape before Tiffany can see it. Josh, Rubin and their bad-boy pal E.L. (Seann William Scott) convince nerdy dormmate Kyle (DJ Qualls) to come with them -mostly because Kyle has both a car and a credit card. Before they reach Austin, they run through a series of adventures and encounters that include wrecking Kyle's car; passing themselves off as Ithaca-based members of a national black fraternity; spending an evening with Barry's grandparents; and selling certain masculine body fluids to keep themselves solvent. Meanwhile, back in Ithaca, Barry and Beth have adventures of their own. Beth gets the mistaken impression that Josh has gone to see his girlfriend in Boston, rather than Austin, and goes there herself to find Tiffany and set her straight. The results are surprisingly funny. Barry, meanwhile, begs Rubin to let him feed Rubin's boa constrictor while Rubin is gone. Forced to wait a day because the snake is only fed weekly, Barry spends the time verbally taunting the doomed mouse, only to watch in frustration as the snake ignores the tiny mammal at dinnertime. The sight gags generally are more successful than the verbal ones. Armstrong and Phillips understand how to create outrageous moments of bad-taste humor and, when they work in this vein, they get their laughs. Whether it's jokes about the blind, elderly sexuality or the crudest of bodily functions (as practiced by a waiter serving French toast), Road Trip is at its funniest when flouting social taboos. On the other hand, Phillips is seldom able to exploit the sheer geekiness of newcomer Qualls, who looks like an escapee from Deliverance. He gets some of the funniest moments in the film -including being deflowered by a Rubenesque woman -- but doesn't have the lines to truly capitalize on those moments. Green, meanwhile, makes a memorable screen debut, taking advantage of his role as the group's unpredictable goofball to draw howls, particularly when he puts a live mouse into his mouth. Road Trip is not great comedy, but it makes the most of what it has to create some of the biggest laughs of the year. You'll never look at French toast the same way again.  I know that I won´t eat French toasts again hehe !!And 55.6 % voted this movies as a ten..you see when the audience votes it gets better..screw the critics !!     |
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