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King of the Road
Hopping on the slap - stick band waggon comes
a teen comedy with a hugely likeable cast..........
The late seventies were the golden age of the American gross out comedies in which frat-boys lost their virginity to middle aged woman, had out of control toga parties and waggled their penises through shower block walls. But just when you though you'd seen the last of the fart-tit-poo wave, along came There's Something About Mary, Which reinvented the genre.
Hot in the heels of American Pie - with it's "Knobbing - an - apple -pie - scene" comes Road Trip, which thankfully is a more grounded alternative. It would be pushing it to say that any great headway has been made here, but nevertheless, Road Trip features a far more palatable team than the Dawson's Creek cast offs we've come to expect for grown ups, albeit grown ups who haven't grown up all that much and are happy to stay that way.
The premise is simple. Josh (Meyer) and Tiffany (Blanchard) have been childhood sweethearts for ever, but their love is tested when they graduate from highschool. Josh goes to college in Ithaca, New York, while Tiffany heads for Austin, Texas. They call and write religiously, but when Tiffany goes AWOL, Josh fears the worst. Assuming he's been dumped, Josh embarks on an affair with saucy Beth (Smart), but Tiffany calls the next day to say her Grandfather has just died and she's been staying at her parents' home. If the guilt wasn't enough Josh is appalled to learn the videotaped evidence is accidentally winging it's way by post to Tiffany instead of the lovelorn message he's previously recorded. Josh has three days to get there and stop the tape, so he duly rounds up his dodgiest mates - the jock, the weedy nerd ect - and sets off in the kind of road trip that only ever happens in movies.
So far, so what. But a likeable cast - with the added attraction of gonzo stoner comedian Tom Green who holds the whole movie together as snake obsessed student Barry Manilow - gives this film a warm summer feel.
7/10
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