Sex Drive (2008) ***

Sex Drive is your typical absurd teenage sex road trip film about a guy trying to lose his virginity. I know, we've never had that one before. Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a virgin who is what I call the middle class of teenage life. He's not popular, yet he's not quite a nerd (even though he does have a dildo attached to him at one point). His friend Lance (Clark Duke) is a pure player. I don't know if it's just bad casting but Lance looks like a very young Roger Ebert so apparently Ebert got a lot of ass in high school. Ian's best friend is Fellicia (Amanda Crew) and, as in all movies of this caliber that have a male-female relationship, it's alluded that they both feel more.

Ian ends up meeting a girl on the internet (which always pans out) who wants to meet him 900 miles away. It's road trip time as the trio steal Ian's brothers (James Marsden in full Stiffler mode) 1969 GTO so that Ian can get laid. That's where the hilarity begins, even to the point of running into an Amish mechanic.

It's a well worn story, but it's told with a little more heart than most. Zuckerman and Crew make a cute pair as they stumble toward their destiny. It's the logic that blows me away. I'll give one example: Ian is at a party. Lance hands him a girl on a silver platter so that he can become a man and score. He looks awkward and doesn't even come close to having sex with this girl, yet when he gets home he's offered sex over and instant messenger which he gets excited over because "it's time to lose his virginity!". Now I've been out of school for a long time but I would imagine that a teenage boy with sex in front of him would go for that over a 900 mile drive to possibly meets a guy or Stone Philips.

But logic doesn't apply to roadtrip movies and if you can suspend that for two hours you'll get some good laughs of of Sex Drive. It's not a great movie, but it's funnier than some of the films being thrown our way.