Published: October 10, 2008

Sex Drive Movie Review

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A libidinous road movie with outlandish auto-erotic components in more ways than one, Sex Drive is evidently engaging in a grossing contest with other more dirty talk than action raging hormone romps in theaters. And while there are occasional pit stops along the way into inventive humor, the story is marked by simply awful lapses into dead end smut.

Josh Zuckerman is Ian in Sex Drive, an eighteen year old suburban Chicago virgin dork slacking away the summer surfing online chat rooms for horny female cyber-mates. When Knoxville hottie Ms. Tasty invites him to come hook up at her place, Ian steals his older brother's car to head south with some friends in tow, and track her down. Hence the double meaning of the title, as Ian switches from information highway to interstate highway to follow his, well, lewd fantasy while contemplating a long awaited deflowering before heading to college in the fall.

Adapted from the novel All The Way by Andy Behrens, the movie is tainted with the usual crude bodily fluid jokes, while scrutinizing the erotic tendencies of Amish sect party animals along the way, I kid you not. To sum up, Sex Drive is an essentially tasteless cross-country travelogue, even with Ms. Tasty around. And very likely a more effective public service enticement than sex education classes, for inspiring extreme abstinence.

Summit Entertainment
Rated R
2 stars

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