Sex Drive
Summit Distribution | Release Date: October 17, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
16
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
TV Guide MagazineCammila Albertson
All that matters is if it's funny -- and it is. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Sex Drive's first 30 minutes may lead one to suspect there's nothing new to be seen here, but it undergoes a transformation once the preliminaries have been dispensed with. John Hughes would be pleased - and so also might Judd Apatow. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Sex Drive has shaky moments, and its smutty gags aren't edited so much as slammed together. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A testosterone-fueled road movie that displays the same Apatow-ian obsessions, and raunch, as "Pineapple Express," "Superbad," and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Three things and three things only keep Sex Drive from being teen-comedy landfill. The first is James Marsden, hilarious as the hero's bully-boy big brother. The second is Seth Green, beyond droll as an Amishman with attitude. The third is the Mexican doughnut costume. Read full review
60
Village VoiceSam Sweet
Remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The gags are as idiotic as you'd expect, but they consistently hit the bull's-eye. Read full review
60
EmpireSam Toy
Okay, it doesn’t have an original bone in its body, but forgetting the awful title, Sex Drive has its share of snappy lines and decent gags. It’s also got Seth Green and James Marsden on cracking form, which should never be underestimated. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Sex Drive offers a limp variation on a hoary old teen-film trope. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerTravis Nichols
The first half-hour of this movie is super-worse, with only some sub-"American Pie" gags fleshing out the lame-brain plot, but once it gets on the road, there's pleasure to be had. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This movie doesn't contain "offensive language." The offensive language contains the movie. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Sex Drive does not fully satisfy our comic desires. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleReyhan Harmanci
Some jokes work, some don't and, frankly, I can't remember either, but it leaves a sweet aftertaste. Slight, but sweet. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The sweetheart leads, Josh Zuckerman and Amanda Crew, are easy to spend time with, and Seth Green as an Amish hipster and Clark Duke as an unlikely lady-killer hit every sweet-and-sardonic note with panache. Read full review
50
Washington PostNeely Tucker
The movie is pulled along mostly by James Marsden's cheerfully over-the-top performance as Ian's homophobic older brother, but Josh Zuckerman does a nice job of keeping Ian likable. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Less sex comedy and more Seth comedy would have made for a much livelier excursion. Read full review
40
VarietyJoe Leydon
Since the new pic contains little that's genuinely amusing or minimally original, it likely will fail on its own merits. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's not "Sixteen Candles," but it's not "Road Trip," either. Instead, this comedic car-trip riff on the teen-male libido and the lengths to which it will go to satisfy itself falls somewhere in between part endearing emo love story, part gross-out semen gag-fest, and, very occasionally, a smart, inspired, non-sequitur-laden hoot. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Just slightly funnier than you'd expect, this dashed-off teen comedy cribs from a thousand other movies, without coming up with anything original of its own. Read full review
40
Film ThreatTricia Olszewski
The movie's original moments drown in its overall derivation. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneTasha Robinson
Sean Anders' derivative gross-out movie Sex Drive is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is "because it’s a teen sex comedy." Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
One smart thing Green's character Ezekiel does is split from Sex Drive as soon as his two scenes are over. Read full review
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