Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Charming and brutal
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
View Morewhat a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
View MoreBeer pong is a game of impulsiveness, immaturity, and amplified distractions, so the fact that Road Trip: Beer Pong has all these characteristics, I suppose it can be seen as faithful to its subject matter. That's about one of the only things I can credit the film for, as it seems to be predicated off of the worst tendencies in contemporary raunchy comedies.The film stars Preston Jones as Andy, a simple college kid with a loyal but somewhat oppressive girlfriend (Julianna Guill), who has just transferred to Andy's college in Ithaca. Andy and his buds Korkin (Michael Trotter, who looks nothing shy of a young Ashton Kutcher) and Razor (Daniel Newman) are beer pong players for their college and are about to compete in the national tournament. Things get better when Andy realizes that one of the beer pong advertised is a young French woman whom he had a thing with years back. Now they have an extra incentives to head out to nationals and decide to take a road trip. Blink if you think it'll be a crazy ride. It all starts when they try and gain sponsorship from a local despot named Arash (Danny Pudi), whose native country has a coup leading him and the group of collegians arrested and abandoned in a random town in Maine.The film opens as an orientation of the college by current student Kyle Edwards, who returns from the original Road Trip film reprised by DJ Qualls. I've mentioned my appreciation for Qualls as an actor and screen-presence, mainly for his charming, every-man nature and likable charisma. Even in this film, as mediocre and as dreary as it is, Qualls finds humor and likability. Even if he is consistently being hit on by a mother-daughter team attending the campus tour.The bar has been raised for comedies in the last eight or so years. Comedies like Road Trip: Beer Pong are similar to the series of spin-offs bearing the American Pie name, as they appeal to the smaller percentages by marketing the lowest common denominator of comedy. These are films that feature excessive nudity and confuse zealous amounts of language and bawdiness for wit and humor. Compare this to the films of Judd Apatow, some of the most humanistic and hilarious comedies you'll be able find in this day and age.Because the bar has been raised, my main complaint with Road Trip: Beer Pong is its inability to even function as a faithful member of its genre. It mistakes excessive vulgarity and nudity for humor, completely shunning the most crucial factor in comedy, which is obviously the writing. To do that alone is a very poor move; to have it leach onto a film from 2000 and have such minimal continuity from it - like one character - in hopes to garner more viewership is nothing shy of disingenuous.Starring: Preston Jones, Michael Trotter, Daniel Newman, Julianna Guill, Danny Pudi, and DJ Qualls. Directed by: Steve Rash.
View MoreThis movie is the biggest sh*t I have ever seen, including the time when i ate 1 kg of beans for a bet.. The worst movie until now was for me Accepted but Road Trip 2 is just too much.Spoilers ahead(actually lets call them Warnings OK?)Lets see. You have a nice guy who is in serious relationship with a girl, a crazy cool guy who is his friends and he is very very cool because he has no moral compass and of course middle eastern or African funny-goofy guy for a comic relief. Full bag of surprises there right?Oh yeah and i must not forget to mention: They play mentally challenged game where you are trying to throw a ball in to a other guys beer oh and Wait... Wait a little longer.... Now : They have national championship in this sport. Buya! Didn't expect that have you? This bunch of guys go on this trip to some town to win this gay championship. The nice guy goes because he wants to test his relationship with current girlfriend and wants to have sex with some french ex girlfriend because if he wont do that his schoolmates will tie him to a tree and pour mixture of feces and urine on him.On the trip they steal a taxi, are captured and tortured by CIA (how i wish that the torture part would be real)rob a store and of course two classics of sh*tty movies: a) to anger the biker gang b)kill a hog (actually this is pretty clever because in most retarded movies is the bear). OK so movie stinks says the director, but I will trick the viewers with some nudity and girls making out, recipe for success obviously. Combine that with the washout performance of actors and you are half way there. I was feeling fuzzy two times during watching this movie and i drank only 4 beers, unfortunately. I had to watch Rio Bravo than to make myself feel better and not so violated. Perhaps this movie is meant only for American government to play it in Guantanamo I cannot see any other reason for making this disaster. It insults the viewer intelligence so much that someone(director?) should answer with his life.
View MoreI've seen a bunch of comedies this summer, actually I think I've seen all they made commercials for etc. This one is a totally OK movie, except Julia Levy-Boeken, who I have seen play beautiful girls for some stupid reason?!?! Is her daddy a rich dude or something? Don't get me wrong she may be a great actress, but she played like the "hottest" girl in this movie and all the other girls looked sexier, especially Julianna Guill! Julia ruined this film, I was so mad when they showed her as the "hottie" of the movie. How can an anorexic-bulimic parrot play "the" hottie??? Are people blind nowadays. I don't care who her mom or dad are, and I won't waste the time to do so, but people please!!! I think Hollywood is at it's worst so ugly rich spoiled girls should stop spoiling whats left of it. Children should not see bone- collections like her being portrayed as the "beauty" in films! So, if you can stay calm despite all these facts during the movie, you should try it, if not, don't bother pissing your self off.
View More9 years after the first road trip was out this new instalment brings back DJ qualls (kyle) who takes potential new undergraduates to show and tell them of the college.Not as anywhere funny or original as the first one this movie does bring a few laughs, but nothing major. The movie is highly predictable and does not allow the watcher to connect with the road trip. I felt with the first and second road trip that the viewer can feel part of the movie which was not the case with this one. This is a straight to DVD release which tells you a lot about the movie.If you have nothing to do and have some beers in the fridge and snacks i'd recommend this movie. If you want to actually watch a movie and make time for one, this is not it!!
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