Sex Drive
Sean Anders


Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a high-school senior who wants to lose his virginity but he is secretly in love with Felicia (Amanda Crew), his platonic female friend.
His best pal Lance (Clark Duke) is a chick magnet and just wants to help him get laid.
Didn't they already make this film?
Just because it is a teenage sex comedy does not mean it has to be generic. I enjoyed it when it was called Superbad (2007), which had heart and likeable characters along with the ribald humour.
Sex Drive, though, is merely content to cross one dated genre (teenage sex comedy) with another (the road movie) as Ian goes on a nine-hour car trip to keep a date with an Internet hook-up.
There are a couple of funny moments with a giant doughnut costume and Seth Green as a deadpan Amish but otherwise, Zuckerman as the blandly sweet Ian and Crew fail to leave much of an impression.
Mostly, this ride just limps along.
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