Sex Drive
Sex Drive is a teen road picture with a too cute name that could not be funnier even though the premise goes back over 20 years to The Sure Thing. Josh Zuckerman plays Ian with all the raging hormones of a high school grad that go unsatisfied because of his shyness. This may be because his real passion for his best friend Felicia (Langley’s Amanda Crew) is a lost cause although it’s obvious to anyone watching except for Ian and Felicia that she feels the same about him. The peripheral characters around these two are the real source of the side splitting comedy especially Ian’s perpetually taunting grease ball brother Rex (an outstanding James Marsden) who feels that Ian will be infected with gayness unless he soon knows the touch of a woman. Little does Rex know that Ian has a good thing going with Ms Tasty (30 Rocks Katrina Bowden), an internet hottie who unfortunately is a 9 hour drive away in Knoxville. When she cyber promises to make a man out of him he commandeers Rex’ cherry GTO Judge and turbo charges to Tennessee along with his two best friends Felicia and Lance (Clark Duke) a smooth but extremely unlikely Don Juan. Along the way there’s more fun with Seth Green as an Amish farmer with a penchant for sarcasm which he laments is lost on his people. Although the most horse power he drives is one, he’s a whiz mechanic who always seems to be there when this trio’s hot wheels cool down – the service charge: being subjected to his sarcastic banter. Sex Drive features mostly heretofore minor actors who should break out due to their fine work on this film which is often raunchy, always funny and definitely worth the trip.