Road Trip (2000): Dir: Todd Phillips / Cast: Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Tom Green, Seann William Scott, D.J. Qualls: Pointless geek show that attempts to outdo one vulgar scene with another. Narrator Tom Green tells the story of Josh and Tiffany whose childhood friendship blossomed to romance until she moved away. They kept in touch through separate universities. Beth is interested in Josh and has sex with him in front of a video camera, which accidentally gets mailed to Tiffany. Vulgar humour includes a scene where French toast is devoured after it was down the waiter's pants. Directed by Todd Phillips who executes the humour with surprise but never touches the complexity of National Lampoon's Animal House. Breckin Meyer is totally unsympathetic and probably doesn't get what he deserves. Amy Smart as Beth is more trouble than she's worth as she follows in road trip fashion causing chaos every step of the way. Green is not only the pioneer of the grossest humour but also involved in pointless footage when the screenplay shifts from the road. Seann William Scott also landed a part in this fresh after his Stifler act in the much better American Pie. D.J. Qualls plays the nerd kid who could easily be the poster boy for such a stereotype. There is very little if anything funny in this junk. The purpose is to exploit vulgarity so the film should be backed over with a car. Score: 2 / 10

Road Trip takes place more on the road than in the college and this can be seen as a good thing. The adventure was okay but the movie really wasn't that funny. Im a fan of the American Pie series (first 3) but this movie just wasn't all that people were saying about it. There were many unnecessary stops along the way. Most of those detours involve the Sacred Duo of Collegiate Intemperance: mood-altering substances and sex. There's a stop to make deposits at a sperm bank when they run out of money. There's a stop at a college where they end up partying with members of a black fraternity, and where Kyle loses his virginity to a larger woman. And there's an overnight stay with an elderly couple (Barry's grandparents) where the grizzled man of the house gets stoned and hallucinates a conversation with his dog. However none of this things were as funny as it sounds. The group of friends were okay with the exception of Rubin and Kyle (they were both utterly annoying, specifically Rubin).Only it's just not all that funny. Unlike the pointlessly message-mongering American Pie, Road Trip never pretends to be anything more than a cesspool of moral depravity. It's even refreshing in a twisted way that the girl who seduces Josh -- inspiring the cross-country recovery mission in the first place. But Road Trip's singularity of purpose doesn't translate into much manic energy. Its low-brow set pieces are pitched at obvious incongruities: the pairing of rail-thin Kyle with his substantial ladyfriend, an old man sporting can obvious erection, the macho E.L. delighting in a prostate massage. There's not much of a sense of comic discovery to Road Trip's gags; they're the gags teenagers are expected to laugh at. I did like the ending, the way they showed the friends lives in the near future. That was one positive thing about this laugh-free comedy

This is a fun original movie that is the debut of director Todd Phillips. He shows us that all you need is a good script and actors that can give believable performance to get a good movie. Breckin Meyer stars as Josh Parker, a college student in upstate New York who fears that he may have accidentally sent a sex tape of him and Beth, played by Amy Smart, to a girlfriend of his who is in college in Texas. He makes it a mission to go to Texas and retrieve the tape before his girlfriend gets it.Three of his buddies: E.L., Rubin, and Kyle go with him on this trip as they feel they need to be with their buddy. They are all good in their own ways. As previously mentioned Amy Smart plays Beth, a college girl who takes in interest in Josh.Phillips takes us to many places with new turns in the story. He makes every stop interesting and something that we can relate to. This is the first of many times where director Todd Phillips shows us that he can tell a good story, have believable characters, and take an old idea that many would think of and make the story his own.

this film isn't bad. it just came out at the wrong time because the other teen films that were released at the time were a lot better such as American Pie, Faculty, Idle Hands, Scary Movie and the Scream films. there really was far too many teen flicks at the turn of the millennium. this film was far from the worst. just think how stupid that Dude Where's My Car film was. there's quite a large cast in this that includes Breckin Meyer (Go), Seann William Scott (American Pie), Amy Smart (Butterfly Effect), Paulo Costanzo (Joey), Ethan Suplee (American History x), Fred Ward (Short Cuts) and the ultra stupid Tom Green (Freddy Got Fingered).the film sets around Breckin Meyer's character thats having a very long distance relationship. So he makes a video tape of him saying a lot of romantic gestures so he can post it to her. later on that night he sleeps with another girl that funnily enough gets recorded. that tape then accidentally gets sent to his girl friend so then he has to travel across America with some of his class mates to retrieve the tape before his girlfriend views it. it isn't a bad film but it really is set just for teens to watch it.on a whole i'd avoid this movie if you've seen the other teen comedies of that time because you ain't missing much. but worth a watch if there isn't anything else on TV............ 4.5/10.............j.d Seaton