DVD Movie Rating for: Road Trip

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Road Trip

A group of raucous, college buds living the Frat life decide to have a blowout with a Road Trip of insane proportions. Dad's car, hard partying, nubile and Nubian Princesses, a boa constrictor and Tom Green make for a great trip down comedy lane.

DVD Production Details of: Road Trip

Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott

Director: Todd Phillips

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Dreamworks Skg

DVD Release Date: December 19, 2000
DVD Features:
Production notes

Theatrical trailer(s)

"Road Kill": Seven deleted scenes

The Eels music video "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues"

Behind-the-scenes featurette hosted by Tom Green

Widescreen letterbox format

Cast of the movie: Road Trip

• Breckin Meyer .... Josh
• Seann William Scott .... E.L.
• Amy Smart .... Beth
  
• Paulo Costanzo .... Rubin
• DJ Qualls .... Kyle
• Rachel Blanchard .... Tiffany
• Anthony Rapp .... Jacob
• Fred Ward .... Earl Edwards
• Tom Green .... Barry
• Andy Dick .... Motel Clerk
• Ethan Suplee .... Ed
• Horatio Sanz .... French Toast Guy
• Rhoda Griffis .... Tour Group Mom
• Deborah Zoe .... E.L.'s Girlfriend
• Marla Sucharetza .... Sperm Bank Nurse

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Reviews of the movie: Road Trip

I found this movie to be funny, when compared to Something About Mary and "American Pie". And since it is in that arena, it gets a good reputation (though doesn't live up to it's precedors). I found the plot alone humorous- College guy (Breckin Meyer) from Ithica, who is dating a girl (Rachel Blanchard)in Austin since he was little, tapes a sex tape with another girl by accident and mails it to her, so he must retrieve it with his friends (Seann W. Scott, DJ Qualls and Paulo Costanzo).

The Always hilarious (especially here) Tom Green brings us along in this story as he tells the story to a tour group and also includes himself as a experimentist and snake feeder with mice. The wackiness and sickness in this film brings out the best and it is dead pan funny. One of the best comedies of the year. Look for cameos by Horatio Sanz, Andy Dick and Fred Ward. A

Road Trip is a mostly agreeable, by-the-numbers teen flick with a handful of inspired sequences, most of them involving MTV's resident disturbed soul, Tom Green. It concerns a sleepy University of Ithaca student named Josh (Breckin Meyer) who accidentally mails a video of his sexual encounter with an infatuation (Amy Smart) to his longtime girlfriend (Rachel Blanchard), who's seemingly avoiding him while at school in Austin, Texas. Naturally, he recruits some buddies--Seann William Scott as the lech, D.J. Qualls as the hopeless nerd, and Paulo Costanzo as the doper genius--to hit the open highway and intercept the package. Even more naturally, mayhem ensues: A car explodes, a bus is stolen, a nerd is deflowered, French toast is horribly violated, and an elderly man bogarts both pot and Viagra.

The film's humor is more democratic than politically correct, as everyone--women and minority characters, not just the hipster white guys--have a hand in the high jinks. Tom Green plays Barry Manilow (no, not that one), a professional student (eight years and counting)--he relates the film's story to skeptical prospective students while leading them on a tour of the college--and thrill-seeking dork extraordinaire. In particular, in an already justly famous sequence of scenes, he sadistically anticipates and endeavors to accelerate a mouse's demise at the jaws of a python. It's very much in the vein of American Pie, perhaps a smidgen tamer, but at least its characters don't really learn any dopey lessons in the end. Director and coscreenwriter Todd Phillips, who earlier made the much-questioned documentary Frat House, again proves he's more adept at staging fictional comic sequences than real ones.