When the movie Road Trip first came out, I will confess I wasn’t overly impressed by it. For the most part, it seemed to be pretty much every other college movie I’ve ever seen.
Then, after watching it for about the third time, I think I might have finally realized just why it is one of the best college films I’ve seen.
There are a couple things about Road Trip that really set it apart from similar movies.
First, you have an all-star cast of people who, at the time, were basically nobodies.
You have DJ. Qualls and Amy Smart along with Tom Green and a bunch of other guys.
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also have a very simple plot (a college student travels across country with his friends to retrieve a sex video he accidentally sent to his girlfriend) that leads to a variety of adventures without getting off track at any point.
I really don’t know which is more classic, the fact they steal a school bus from the school of the blind (leading to a hilarious comedy sequence where a blind woman can apparently see everything he’s doing, from feeding her dog to making faces at her) or the fact they try to pass themselves off as members of an all-black fraternity.
And, of course, how can you forget about Tom Green ...
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