DVD Review: “Sex Drive”
Rating: 61
Raunchy sex comedies are only as good as the spirit in which they are done. When hate is the prevailing sentiment, as it was in the recent Dane Cook disaster “My Best Friend’s Girl,” no amount of “brain bleach” can undo the damage. “Sex Drive” taps into the same nutjob sense of adventure that fueled “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” — a canny mix of lowbrow humor and sly satire makes director Sean Anders’ debut good, nasty fun.
Much as “The Girl Next Door” gleefully ripped its plot from “Risky Business,” “Sex Drive” gets its framework from “The Sure Thing.” Amiable dork Ian (Josh Zuckerman) meets hot dream girl Ms. Tasty (Katrina Bowden of “30 Rock”) online, and his strangely self-assured goofball friend Lance (Internet cult hero Clark Duke) pushes him to meet her in Knoxville, Tenn. Ian’s best friend Felicia (Amanda Crew) goes along for the ride (she’s his true love, of course), so they liberate “The Judge,” the prized 1969 Pontiac GTO owned by Ian’s sadistic brother Rex (Oklahoma’s James Marsden), and set out for the hinterlands.
Marsden is riffing on Bill Paxton’s Chet from “Weird Science,” but with a nice twist at the end, and “Sex Drive” is filled with great stopovers and cameos — Fall Out Boy performs at a drunken Rumspringa bash, and Seth Green is golden as an Amish hipster mechanic who fixes “The Judge.” This is not elite material (the filmmakers and cast make sport of award-season promos in the extras), but “Sex Drive” is as much fun as a movie called “Sex Drive” can be.
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