Sex Drive – The Geekscape Review
Sex Drive, the new movie from young director, Sean Anders, revolves around Ian (Josh Zuckerman), your average 18 year-old who is desperately seeking puss. He comes across it over the internet, where he meets a girl who’s totally into him. Well, she’s actually into the football playing, weight lifting, muscle car driving profile he has forged. She asks him to come vist her and so the movie begins.
At it’s heart Sex Drive is a road trip/teen sex comedy, and it does an okay job at it. You have your required characters: the hopeless loser in search of love, the cocksure friend (played in all his subdued glory by Clark Duke), the girl whose a friend who doesn’t know what she wants (Amanda Crew), the evil brother (James Marsden) and a slew of crazies that they come across along the way. Just add water, stir and bake for 90 minutes and there you have it.
Even though you may have seen hundreds of similar movies, Sex Drive offers up some stand out moments that managed to catch me by surprise. The first being James Marsden. If you think that this guy can only stand around brooding, this movie will prove you wrong. Who knew that under those ruby tinted glasses Cyclops had a sense of humor? Seriously, Marsden turns in possibly the greatest performance in the movie as the dick of a brother who is more interested in his car then his younger sibling. I was laughing out loud at almost every scene he was in. Also, there are some pretty great cameos here and there, from Seth Green as a less then straight-forward Amish to David Koechner as a surly hitchhiker.
In the end, if there were a high school where Teen Sex Comedies attended, Sex Drive would be the shy quiet guy sitting in the courtyard during lunch. Not as loud, obnoxious and cocky as the kids at the cool table like American Pie or Van Wilder. It’s not as cool and funny as the Seniors (Animal House or Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Yet, not nearly as annoying as the freshmen (Eurotrip, American Pie 4-87). Ultimately, Sex Drive is one of those types of movies that is funny at times, slightly annoying but not overly so, and in the long run will be remembered as that kid you sat next to in Algebra 2… you know, the one that was kind of nice but you can’t for the life of you remember his name.
