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What a (Road)
Trip! Solid Road Trip is a darn funny film. It’s full of fun road movie comic hysterics and a portion of the film allows Tom Green to . . . be Tom Green. I write this because, though deceiving the trailers were, Green is not on the road trip. But he’s still funny. And so is this movie. One recommendation: see the sources. There are so many other movies strewn through the soul of this one that the memories of the earlier films make watching Road Trip even more fun. It’s just a bunch of good guys in college being guys in college and enjoying pre-employment life while meeting various nude, attractive women, going to fraternity parties, and getting in trouble with the girlfriend. It’s what life was about, and always has been. Some Sources: Animal House!!!
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Return of the College Comedy: Road
Trip Super
Thanks to American Pie, the wonderful and woefully missed genre of teenage sex
comedy was revived…and I am not at all being sarcastic.
Crude and crass sex humor is some of my very favorite and now
that it’s back, it’s opened the door for the only type of comedy
that it works best with: the College comedy. Hearkening back to the purely classic Animal House— in fact, cleverly referencing it— Road
Trip resurrects the genre with sharp wit and unapologetic vulgarity.
Coming from me, this is the highest of complements.
Road Trip boldly steps
deep within the genre traditions, taking no steps to prepare you for the
slap in the face it’s about to deliver to political correctness crap.
Suddenly we’re watching a conversation between nubile young
women discussing how evil men are…in a girls’ shower room.
Shown with more abundance in the Unrated version, but beautifully
shocking in even the rated version, the entire conversation is conducted
with one clothed girl and a plethora of beautiful nude women in various
states of undress and bathing. Shocked?
So are the people Tom Green’s (The
Tom Green Show, Charlie’s Angels) character is telling the story
to, a group of Ithaca college prospectives.
Tom provides the verbal slap to P.C. saying, yes, women do have
conversations nude, and goes on to describe it in even more detail.
The Unrated version even has a close-up that hammers home the
final shot at PC.
Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott (American
Pie), Paulo Costanzo and D.J. Qualls are fantastic as the illicit
videotape questing knights, trying desperately to save Breckin’s
fledging relationship and drink, smoke and screw as much as possible on
the way. Complete with car
explosions, gross sex, hot sex, hysterical nude scenes, hot nude scenes,
beautifully idiotic humor, clever humor, racial humor, and random
outbursts, the movie is the perfect college story, so good I almost
cried in remembrance of my own college years. Even Tom Green subdues his own insanity in deference
to the revered form for a more honed and college-ready madness that
works very well in the film. Amy
Smart does an amazing job as the main female, melding the hot with the
lovable and goofy to form what just may be the perfect girl.
(And yes, that’s the writer/director, Todd Phillip’s sucking
Smart’s toes on the bus. It’s good to be the writer.) Throw into the mix a very funny cameo by Andy Dick
(also doing a cameo in Williams’ other flick Dude, Where’s My Car?) and an incredibly hysterical performance by
Edmund Lydneck (Big Daddy, TV’s
Ed) as Green’s grandfather
(who doesn’t love Viagra™ humor?).
The movie is very funny and very re-watchable.
I recommend it to those in college and those out of college, but
maybe most to those about to start college.
Watch carefully so you can compete with it for stories. Remember, Confucius say, He who leaves college
without tales of ridiculous extravagance might as well have skipped it.
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| Trivia:
Though the film takes place at schools in Ithaca, Boston, and Austin, almost all of the college scenes were filmed at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and the University of Georgia, all near Atlanta. The motel clerk reads an issue of Celebrity Skin magazine with Drew Barrymore on the cover. Drew Barrymore is engaged to Tom Green, who plays Barry Manilow in this movie. Well, not the Barry Manilow. There is no “University of Austin.” The road trip begins when the characters take off down Sanford Drive at The University of Georgia. In real life, that part of the street is one-way in the opposite direction. Director’s Cameo (Todd Phillips): the foot fetishist who licks Beth's toes on the bus. Budget: $15.6 million. Gross: Some scenes were, but…OH! Right. 6$68.5 million. |
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