Sex Drive (2008) Critic Reviews

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 the full review

Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.Read the full review

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 the full review

Sex Drive offers a limp variation on a hoary old teen-film trope.Read the full review

Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip.Read the full review

This movie doesn't contain "offensive language." The offensive language contains the movie.Read the full review

Sex Drive does not fully satisfy our comic desires.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review