To get the week started, I decided to watch this new comedy called Sex Drive on Blu Ray, a movie that I had heard a lot about but needed to check out for mysef to see if it was as funny as everyone is saying. Unfortunately, this film was just another sellout teen sex comedy that favored raunchy humor and crude dialogue over actual character depth in having to deal with real life situations. Following the life of a loser who wears a donut costume in a mall, I found myself dumber for having to listen to the lies he gives an online girl who magically ends up wanting to meet him. So starts this road trip across the country with his buddy and the girl he really likes to try and sleep with this chatroom hottie in hopes that it makes him ready and more mature along the way. This plot has been done so many times before it seemed and I found myself not laughing with them but at them instead, sad and embarrassed that they would talk about women and sex as if it was going to change his life or was some holy grail. Although there were some laughs with the brother who calls him gay and the amish Seth Green who "misses" sarcasm, I thought this movie had way too many ridiculous character's and checkered one liners instead of letting us really get to see how long and crazy the road trip was to get there. It tried to throw in a twist at the end but falls flat I thought by trying to tie every loose end together all at once, never really giving me the payoff or crazyiness that I was hoping for. Overall, a letdown, though the Unrated Version is just ridiculous enough with more random nudity and CGI characters that make it tolerable.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sex Drive (2008) (Blu Ray) - 7/10
To get the week started, I decided to watch this new comedy called Sex Drive on Blu Ray, a movie that I had heard a lot about but needed to check out for mysef to see if it was as funny as everyone is saying. Unfortunately, this film was just another sellout teen sex comedy that favored raunchy humor and crude dialogue over actual character depth in having to deal with real life situations. Following the life of a loser who wears a donut costume in a mall, I found myself dumber for having to listen to the lies he gives an online girl who magically ends up wanting to meet him. So starts this road trip across the country with his buddy and the girl he really likes to try and sleep with this chatroom hottie in hopes that it makes him ready and more mature along the way. This plot has been done so many times before it seemed and I found myself not laughing with them but at them instead, sad and embarrassed that they would talk about women and sex as if it was going to change his life or was some holy grail. Although there were some laughs with the brother who calls him gay and the amish Seth Green who "misses" sarcasm, I thought this movie had way too many ridiculous character's and checkered one liners instead of letting us really get to see how long and crazy the road trip was to get there. It tried to throw in a twist at the end but falls flat I thought by trying to tie every loose end together all at once, never really giving me the payoff or crazyiness that I was hoping for. Overall, a letdown, though the Unrated Version is just ridiculous enough with more random nudity and CGI characters that make it tolerable.
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I agree, the random naked chicks that panned across the screen every now and then made it seem like they knew they had a bad movie and had to yuk it up with some gutless nudity. the Twist at the end was a feeble attempt to make it a different movie. But by the time I got to the end I was already bored and didn't care.
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