Road trip

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Movie
German title Road Trip - Hot trip to Texas
Original title Road trip
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (unrated), 12 (cinema)
JMK 14
Rod
Director Todd Phillips
script Todd Phillips
Scot Armstrong
production Daniel Goldberg
Joe Medjuck
music Mike Simpson
camera Mark Irwin
cut Sheldon Kahn
Peter Teschner
occupation

Road Trip is a college - comedy and a road movie from 2000. The continued Beer Pong - Road Trip (based on the same drinking game ), a direct-to-video releases production was 11 August 2009 in the US .

action

The framework story consists of a guided tour of the Ithaca College by the student Barry Manilow. The visitors are bored and ask if there aren't any interesting stories. He then tells a story that took place there a few years ago:

The focus is on Barry's friend Josh Parker, who has been friends with Tiffany since he was a young boy, from which a love affair has developed over the years. To Josh's regret, however, Tiffany decided not to study at the local college, but went to Austin , Texas to study veterinary medicine. So both are forced to have a long distance relationship. Josh bridges this by taping a videotape for Tiffany every week.

One day, Tiffany stopped answering Josh and his calls went unanswered. Your roommates put Josh off or are already annoyed by his frequent calls. Josh is not doing well at school either. In philosophy he absolutely needs a B + in the midsemester exam in order to be allowed to stay at college. Since Josh now fears that Tiffany doesn't want to know anything more from him or has another boyfriend, it comes to a hot night with Beth at a party, which is even recorded on video. The next morning Josh is urged by his friends to show them the video, but it quickly emerges that the video from last night was accidentally sent to Tiffany. Josh is panicking.

While listening to the answering machine, Josh finally learns the reason for the radio silence around Tiffany: her grandfather has died and she is spending time with her parents; she won't be back in Austin until Monday. So Josh has three days to intercept the video. EL wants to accompany him. Since they don't have a car, they persuade the outsider Kyle to come along because he has his father's Ford Taurus . Without further ado, Rubin decides to accompany the three. He trustingly puts the feeding of his snake in the hands of Barry, who is only too happy to take on this task, since for him it is the highest of emotions to feed a live mouse to the snake.

In Ithaca, Beth wants to talk to Josh, but only meets Barry in the room. She learns from him that Josh drove to his girlfriend Tiffany's. When asked where to, Barry doesn't say Austin, Texas, but Austin, Massachusetts . Beth asks if he doesn't mean Boston , Massachusetts. Barry wrongly confirms this. Beth sets out to tell Tiffany about her affair.

At the first stop, Kyle's father's credit card is pushed to the limit and one shortcut turns out to be a dead end. At a destroyed bridge is the first stop. According to Rubin's calculations, a jump across the river is possible. However, the car is totaled and eventually explodes. In a small town, EL manages to steal the school bus from a school for the blind. It is at this point that Kyle's father realizes that something is wrong with his son as the credit card is running out. He also learns from the police that his Ford was found completely burned out in a forest. He believes that his son has been kidnapped and sets out to look for him.

After driving on and one more stop, Josh calls his lecturer to get the exam postponed. But since the assistant of the professor, who sees Josh as his competitor for Beth, accepts the conversation, he pretends to be a professor and only gives Josh the postponement to appear.

Beth has meanwhile arrived in Boston, meets the supposed Tiffany there and tells about the night with her boyfriend. When she in a rage destroys her boyfriend's car and Beth notices that the boyfriend is not Josh, she leaves the scene again in the direction of Ithaca.

The protagonists stop at the house of a fraternity. Rubin pretends to be a member because he knows the secret greeting. It quickly turns out that it is a connection for black students, whereas the friends are white. After the students take revenge on Kyle with a rough prank, the four are welcomed in a friendly manner. There's a big party in the evening and Kyle spends his first night with a girl.

To make money, the protagonists stop at a sperm bank. Rubin and Kyle are retiring as donors, so only Josh and EL can donate. EL makes nice eyes to the nurse who instructs her and asks her to help with the sperm donation. She helps him with a rectal prostate massage .

Back in Ithaca, Beth confronts Barry, who twists the story again and tells that Josh is on his way to Austin to break up with Tiffany. The assistant to the philosophy professor joins this scene. The spurned lover brags to Beth that he gave Josh a reprieve from his exam, but that there isn't, and Josh will fail the exam, which means the end of his studies.

After a night with Barry's grandparents, the protagonists finally arrive at the University of Austin. There there is a confrontation with the student at the post office. Kyle's irascible father also appears, and for the first time in his life, Kyle succeeds in asserting himself against him. At the same time, in Tiffany's room, Josh receives a call from Beth. This informs him about the assistant's plan. During the call, Tiffany puts the video cassette into the recorder. Josh can't stop them anymore; but before Beth comes into the picture, the face of Barry can suddenly be seen, who has overplayed the tape. However, Josh and Tiffany decide to end their relationship, as Tiffany also decides that college is a unique time and must be enjoyed.

Josh now has 46 hours to return to Ithaca and study. Rubin says he can teach him everything on the drive. Josh arrives late, but the exam hasn't started yet. As it turns out later, Beth launched a bomb threat and the building was evacuated. So Josh creates his B + and can stay at university.

At the end of the story, Barry tells what became of the protagonists. Josh and Beth become a couple and produce private sex videos. Kyle makes up with his father and introduces him to his new girlfriend. EL has a new preference for sex since prostate massage, Rubin crosses marijuana plants until he develops a strain that is twice as potent as conventional marijuana, but is undetectable in drug tests. The assistant who tried to ruin Josh's semester is now the leader of a sect. He intends to commit a mass suicide, but is the first to drink the poisonous drink, whereupon the rest of the sect members refrain from doing so.

Reviews

“Uninspired college comedy, enriched with pubescent sex and disgust gags, which deals particularly undignified with women and old people. In a perfidious way, she wants to bring her message from the "usable" woman to the man, but also to the child who is neither in terms of taste nor in terms of sex education. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Anyone who liked Crazy About Mary and American Pie will love that too."

- TV Today

“College comedy as a road movie. It's fun and doesn't hurt! "

- TV movie

"Attention! This “road trip” is not an idyllic excursion. There are drugs inhaled at a sperm donation are agitators used. And scandalous noodle Tom Green (...) makes headlines again when he tries to whet the appetite of a tired python . But it is precisely the over-the-top story with the funny characters that gives this American pie blend the spice. "

- TV Movie

"And yet another comedy on the silly footsteps of" Crazy About Mary ": Stale gags below the belt and uncomfortable actors tend to make for a tired laugh here."

- Prism Online

Awards

Tom Green won the Teen Choice Award in 2000 . The film was nominated for Best Comedy and for the chemistry between Amy Smart and Breckin Meyer for the Teen Choice Award. The film won the German Bogey Award in 2000 .

Andy Dick , Tom Green (in two categories) and one of the scenes were nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 2001. Tom Green was nominated for the 2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Award .

production

The film had a budget of about 16 million US dollars and played in the US about 68.5 million US dollars one.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for road trips . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ Road Trip. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ TV feature film
  4. ^ Criticism at Prisma Online
  5. ^ Box Office Mojo