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Road Trip is a raunchy yet amusing 2000 comedy that starred Breckin Meyer as Josh Parker, a college student who cheats on his longtime girlfriend and freaks out when he learns that the videotaped encounter has been mailed to his girlfriend, so he and three pals actually decide to drive 2000 miles in order to try and beat the U S mail to his girlfriend.
Framed against a college tour led by a student named Barry Manilow (Tom Green), the story unfolds as a series of vignettes as we watch the guys deal with an exploding vehicle, a wild evening with an all-black fraternity, and an overnight stay with Barry's grandparents.
I must confess that this comedy is a guilty pleasure of mine. Something about Josh's predicament made me care about Josh getting to that video, even more than Josh sometimes, because Josh and his pals definitely lose focus on their mission and get WAY off track, but it doesn't really matter because everything that happens to these guys is so funny that lack of focus on the mission at hand can be forgiven.
Meyer is charming as Josh and Seann William Scott steals every scene he is in as EL, Josh's best friend. Paolo Constanzo and DJ Qualls also have their moments as the two guys traveling with Josh and EL. Qualls has some real scene-stealing moments during the scenes at the black fraternity.
Fred Ward is very funny as Qualls' father, who bullies the police and anyone else who stands in the way of locating his son. Edmund Lyndeck and Ellen Albertini Dow are also amusing as Barry's grandparents. Mention should also be made of Amy Smart as Beth, the girl of Josh's dreams who is on that videotape with him.
Directed and co-written by Todd Edwards, Road Trip is silly, sleazy, outrageous and filled with off-the-wall sexual entendres and toilet bowl humor and attempts to offend with every frame, but you know what? It's funny as hell and I never get tired of watching it. Bit of trivia: The pot-smoking dog is voiced by Jimmy Kimmel.
Framed against a college tour led by a student named Barry Manilow (Tom Green), the story unfolds as a series of vignettes as we watch the guys deal with an exploding vehicle, a wild evening with an all-black fraternity, and an overnight stay with Barry's grandparents.
I must confess that this comedy is a guilty pleasure of mine. Something about Josh's predicament made me care about Josh getting to that video, even more than Josh sometimes, because Josh and his pals definitely lose focus on their mission and get WAY off track, but it doesn't really matter because everything that happens to these guys is so funny that lack of focus on the mission at hand can be forgiven.
Meyer is charming as Josh and Seann William Scott steals every scene he is in as EL, Josh's best friend. Paolo Constanzo and DJ Qualls also have their moments as the two guys traveling with Josh and EL. Qualls has some real scene-stealing moments during the scenes at the black fraternity.
Fred Ward is very funny as Qualls' father, who bullies the police and anyone else who stands in the way of locating his son. Edmund Lyndeck and Ellen Albertini Dow are also amusing as Barry's grandparents. Mention should also be made of Amy Smart as Beth, the girl of Josh's dreams who is on that videotape with him.
Directed and co-written by Todd Edwards, Road Trip is silly, sleazy, outrageous and filled with off-the-wall sexual entendres and toilet bowl humor and attempts to offend with every frame, but you know what? It's funny as hell and I never get tired of watching it. Bit of trivia: The pot-smoking dog is voiced by Jimmy Kimmel.