Sex Drive
by Sean Anders
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Actor: Amanda Crew, Clark Duke, James Marsden, Josh Zuckerman, Seth GreenDirector: Sean Anders
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (SUMMIT)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Summit Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Sex Drive
DVD Review: A pleasant surprise
Summary: 4 Stars
If this was ever out in theaters, I was unaware of it. I'm a fan of sex comedies, but after the last three American Pie flicks, I was about ready to stick to Kevin Smith and Judd Appatow) joints and forgo all straight to DVD releases. But I have to say I was glad I gave this one a shot. "Sex Drive" is as cliche and dumb as they come, but it delivers in the areas that count for this genre: T&A, astounding profanity, likeable actors, disgusting humor, and more T&A. This is a double-sided disc featuring both the R-rated and lengthy unrated cut. I chose to watch the unrated cut and was greeted with a hilarious introduction imploring me to watch the original cut first while promising mucho nudity in the unrated cut. Make up your mind, people! Don't promise me extra nudity and then tell me to watch the version with less. That's just counterproductive. Oh, and the creators giving the introduction are flanked by full-frontal nudity of male and female varieties as they speak. Unrated version it is!
The plot is stupid. Standard. Nonexistent. Unimportant. Unecessary, even. Typical sex-comedy loser with hot chick BFF meets non-BFF hot chick on the internet offering him sex if he comes to see her IRL. Loser grows a pair, steals violent homophobia-spewing brother's awesome car, takes pimpin' male friend and winds up taking female BFF on road trip to lose virginity. Jeez, I wonder if he'll really go through with it [rolls eyes]. Time for a new story concept, sex-comedy writers. Every possible stereotype and convention is explored save the catchphrase-machine black dude. Thank God they spared us one. This is all garbage, but what does work are the jokes, and that's what really matters. I laughed out loud a lot. Seth Green steals the movie as the world's most sarcastic Amish man in what is easily his best non-stop-motion-animated work in many years. Without him, this movie would barely round up to an even 3 stars. Kyle Gass of Tenacious D fame makes a very funny appearance as well.
Jokes, jokes, where are the jokes? Right. Gloryhole humor, a shopping mall donutman with a strapon and later a gun, an abstinence pledge erection, shooting a condom into stepmom's hair, a camera shot of an old man's balls that about lasts for an entire conversation that seems to go on for 10 minutes, and yes even a little scat humor. Either this sort of thing is your bag, baby, or you are out by this point. Fair enough; this lowbrow stuff isn't for everybody. But if it is for you then a good time will be had.
Now I see why the director would urge somebody to see the original cut first. The unrated cut is sloppy and leaves in a lot of outtakes where an actor would bust up laughing when he wasn't supposed to. Hell, at one point the camera even pans to the director on the side of the set urging them to keep going. Also, there are the random inserted naked people. Every now and then, a naked woman will just walk in front of the scene or there will be some dude with his johnson swinging in the breeze juggling or something in the background. This doesn't make for a very immersive story, but when the story is as disposable and generic as this one, the lack of taking it seriously only helps. At about two hours, it runs long but not more so than the often exhausting Appatow unrated efforts. And when a film spends as much time on anatomical close-ups as this one then time will indeed be consumed. There's also a post-credits bit that pokes fun at one of the most annoying cliches of the sex comedy. Unfortunately, it also upholds it in the end. But I do appreciate the teasing self-deprecation displayed.
"Sex Drive" may not be a sterling example of the genre and there are certainly better comedies out there, but there is a lot to like as well for fans of gross-out and sexual humor. I love the obnoxiousness and in-your-face carelessness of the unrated cut and would likely never bother with the R-Rated version since this is a genre I don't take seriously as art in any way, shape, or form. I just want to see something gross, something sexy, something funny, and some really obnoxious characters doing idiotic and absurd things. Mission accomplished.
3 1/2 stars rounded up for being cruder than most anything I've ever watched.
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