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| Rating: Good Distributor: Dreamworks SKG MPAA Rating: R Genre: Comedy Release Date: May 19th, 2000 Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes Director: Todd Phillips Cast: Breckin Meyer, Sean William Scott, DJ Qualls, Paolo Costanzo, Amy Smart, Rachel Blanchard, Fred Ward, and Tom Green. |
| Plot: At the University of Ithaca Barry (Tom Green) narrates a story of his friends' 1,800 mile road trip during his tour of the school. Josh (Breckin Meyer) has a long range relationship with his girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), and is loyal to her. But, when he suspects she is cheating on him, he has an affair with another girl (Amy Smart) and records it on video. One of his friends then mails it to Josh's girlfriend thinking it is his "hello" video. When it turns out that his girlfriend is not cheating on him, he takes two of his friends and another guy he doesn't know that well for his car on a road trip to intercept the video. |
| Critique: Road Trip is a faily consistently funny farce, with some major belly laughs. Although it suffers from a lack of quality acting, and weak direction it succeeds. My biggest complaint is that we did not see enough of Tom Green. In a small supporting role he supplies the funniest jokes in the film. His off-beat weird qualities fuel some hilarious lines. As a narrater he twists facts with some funny results. His expressions are bizarre and absurd, further helping his excellent delivery. However, whoever casted and wrote the film seemed to be under the impression we were more interested in the ridiculous and incredibally stupid main story than Green's strange obsession with watching his friend's snake eat a mouse, and his obnoxious delivery of the Ithaca tour. Nonetheless, Road Trip hits the sweet spot on laughs enough times you walk away feeling you had a good time. The writing is flawed sometimes, but creative other times. Road Trip is choppy, and the ending is not furfilling, but it does wrap things up with success. Although the main character was a little annoying in his attempts to be charming, the supporting cast was effective. The film does not focus on character development as you might imagine, it does bring us from one point to another with characters that change somewhat. Although it is a silly comedy, there is no excuse for not having a more intersting plot. In fact, without Tom Green I don't see how this film could have succeeded. Even without him the script gets out some good jokes, but with him it is thoroughly convincing as an entertaining comedy. In conclusion, Road Trip has an unintelligent plot, but has enough good laughs thanks to Tom Green and a creative screenwriter. It is recommendable, but flawed. Review by Supernothingman |
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