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After thoroughly enjoying `Road Trip` (although it's starting to show it's age now), and finding the highly underrated `Euro Trip`, pretty damn hilarious, I expected good things from `Sex Drive`. .......boy was I disappointed. This film was almost...
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After thoroughly enjoying `Road Trip` (although it's starting to show it's age now), and finding the highly underrated `Euro Trip`, pretty damn hilarious, I expected good things from `Sex Drive`. .......boy was I disappointed. This film was almost 2 hours of continuous unfunny jokes, I even found the last STDVD `American Pie` film funnier than `Sex Drive`. The only real curio of this film is the fact that the guy that seems to attract all the girls, and has a very active sex life, is an overweight guy who wears glasses. A character persona that couldn't be further away from the type of person said people are normally depicted as. Overall: the film is lame, don't even bother getting it in the sales

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Posted may 10, 2009 10:02 pm pt

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Not overly original but a lot of fun to watch. The three leads do a good job, Zuckerman and Duke especially, but Seth Green and most of all James Marsden steal the show! Marsden is hilarious as the obnoxious older brother. Definitely worth...
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Not overly original but a lot of fun to watch. The three leads do a good job, Zuckerman and Duke especially, but Seth Green and most of all James Marsden steal the show! Marsden is hilarious as the obnoxious older brother. Definitely worth watching if you just want to be entertained.

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Posted jan 29, 2009 6:22 pm pt

• [+] TV Guide
  
  88
  All that matters is if it's funny -- and it is.

  by Cammila Albertson | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  Sex Drive has shaky moments, and its smutty gags aren't edited so much as slammed together.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Sex Drive's first 30 minutes may lead one to suspect there's nothing new to be seen here, but it undergoes a transformation once the preliminaries have been dispensed with. John Hughes would be pleased - and so also might Judd Apatow.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  63
  A testosterone-fueled road movie that displays the same Apatow-ian obsessions, and raunch, as "Pineapple Express," "Superbad," and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  Three things and three things only keep Sex Drive from being teen-comedy landfill. The first is James Marsden, hilarious as the hero's bully-boy big brother. The second is Seth Green, beyond droll as an Amishman with attitude. The third is the Mexican doughnut costume.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  60
  The gags are as idiotic as you'd expect, but they consistently hit the bull's-eye.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  Okay, it doesn't have an original bone in its body, but forgetting the awful title, Sex Drive has its share of snappy lines and decent gags. It's also got Seth Green and James Marsden on cracking form, which should never be underestimated.

  by Sam Toy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  60
  Remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves.

  by Sam Sweet | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  58
  The first half-hour of this movie is super-worse, with only some sub-"American Pie" gags fleshing out the lame-brain plot, but once it gets on the road, there's pleasure to be had.

  by Travis Nichols | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  58
  Sex Drive offers a limp variation on a hoary old teen-film trope.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  The sweetheart leads, Josh Zuckerman and Amanda Crew, are easy to spend time with, and Seth Green as an Amish hipster and Clark Duke as an unlikely lady-killer hit every sweet-and-sardonic note with panache.

  by Manohla Dargis | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  Some jokes work, some don't and, frankly, I can't remember either, but it leaves a sweet aftertaste. Slight, but sweet.

  by Reyhan Harmanci | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  50
  Sex Drive does not fully satisfy our comic desires.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  50
  Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip.

  by Mark Olsen | Read Full Review »