DVD/Movie Review: Road Trip

 

Road Trip is a comedy from 2000 directed by Todd Phillips and starring Amy Smart, Breckin Meyer, Sean William Scott, DJ Qualls, Tom Green, Rachel Blanchard, and Paulo Costanzo. This was one of the movies that tried to capture what American Pie had, including casting Sean William Scott in a "Stifler lite" role. The premise is pretty basic. A guy going to college in NY (Meyer) is in a long-distance relationship with a girl in TX (Blanchard). He cheats on her with a girl at his school (Smart) and tapes it. The tape is accidentally sent to his girlfriend in Texas, so he and his friends drive to Texas to intercept the tape. Along the way, pretty much everything that could go wrong does.

For those who get the DVD, there are a few extras, but nothing special. The extras include about 10 minutes of deleted scenes, cast bios, trailers, and a behind-the-scenes feature with Tom Green. Nothing that would really make the DVD a must-have over just streaming it. Ultimately, the movie is okay, with a handful of really funny moments along with a lot of stupid moments (mostly involving Green). Like many of the comedies from the late 1990s forward, it has drug jokes, sex jokes, and gross-out humor. DJ Qualls plays the awkward nerdy kid to perfection and is really the highlight of the movie. It is not the greatest movie by any means, but it is a funny way to kill an hour and a half if you are into the genre.