Sex Drive Review

Ah, the road-trip-type movie. Been done before? Absolutely. Long dead? Absolutely not. I did fear that after Eurotrip and Road Trip there would be no more hysterically funny movies involving the conveyance of a group of humorous protagonists across a vast expanse of land (I know there have been some funny ones since then but none really compared to the originals did they?).

This movie starts off in the usual manner; teenage boy, ordinary life, not-too exciting job and promises of relations with a female if he carts his ass across the country (in this movie, it's not too far actually). The central protagonist Ian's country-crossing friends are revealed to be the long-time-crush-but-just-best-friend Felicia and the sex-craving-Stifler-stereotype Lance. Especially in Lance's case I thought the repeated cliché of a sex-starved male would be tedious and old but I was very pleasantly surprised.

Enter (he actually came in beforehand but I just wanted to say it) James Marsden, better known as Cyclops from X-Men. In this, he plays Ian's older brother Rex. And he does it well. Every second he is on screen I found myself laughing more than any other movie has made me laugh in a long time. Not to mention what he does at the end of the film (I'm not going to say it here - go and see the movie for yourself!).

The trek across a part of America (the starting point and destination escape my memory right now) in the stolen/borrowed GTO belonging to Rex is embarked upon early, allowing for the non-stop laugh-fest that ensues as the characters run into a very strange hitch-hiker (David Koechner), a very knowledgeable Amish man (Seth Green) a very popular band (Fall Out Boy) and (to paraphrase) a series of very unfortunate but nevertheless utterly hilarious events. I give this movie 10 uproariously stolen GTOs out of 10, as in my opinion it is the funniest movie I've seen in a while, leaving other recently released funny movies such as 'Superbad' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (both very good in their own right) in the dust.