the sincerest form of flattery
looks like hollywood is up to its usual brain-dead imitation hijinks. college has already been done: it was called PCU, and had jeremy piven. PCU is the superior movie - because it had jeremy piven. (no, i haven’t seen college. but trust me on this. jeremy piven, like tiger balm, makes everything better. and no, that isn’t a strange comparison. i’m sure jeremy piven would feel great rubbed into my back and thighs. because they’re sore from workouts. right.)
and now i see a new flick coming over the horizon: sex drive. the blurb i received describes it thusly:
Loveable underdog IAN (Josh Zuckerman) is the last American virgin. At least that’s how it feels to him now that he’s 18, about to go to college, and losing girls to his 14-year-old brother. Ian’s always been the nice guy, the best friend … never the boyfriend. But his luck finally seems to be changing when he meets DANIELLE. She’s everything he’s ever wanted in a girlfriend – fun, sexy, and she really likes him. There’s just one problem. She lives in Knoxville . And he lives in Chicago . And she thinks he’s the Brad Pitt-lookalike he’s pretending to be on Facebook. At the urging of his best friend, LANCE (Clark Duke), Ian decides to confront his fear of rejection when Danielle makes him the offer of a lifetime: “If you drive all the way for me, I’ll go all the way for you.”
In the spirit of such classics as AMERICAN PIE, THE SURE THING and SUPERBAD, this wild romp follows Ian, Lance and their third musketeer, the spunky and gorgeous tomboy, FELICIA (Amanda Crew), as they set out in Ian’s older brother’s beloved ’69 GTO. Despite many hilarious setbacks on the road, including a stop-off at an Amish rave (who knew the Amish could party?), Ian finally meets his dream girl … but things don’t turn out quite as planned. Along the way, Ian discovers that while he’s prepared to go the distance for sex, there might be something even better a little closer to home.
apparently “in the spirit of” now means “blatantly ripping off.” the sure thing was a thing of beauty (and not just in a pre-plastic-surgery-nicollette-sheridan kind of way). and john cusack. brilliance. (john cusack and jeremy piven have apparently been in 10 movies together, but perfection was really attained only in the brief shining moment of grosse pointe blank.)
i honestly can’t think of anything worse than an american pie/the sure thing mashup.
wait, yes, i can. the intersection between bacon-flavored dental floss and personal lube.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Yes, but Seth Green is in this one!
OK, you’re right, that doesn’t help. It’ll suck.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Didn’t they already make an American Pie/ Sure Thing mash-up, “Road Trip”?
But surely “teenage boy is horny, wacky hijinks ensue” is a movie that has been made a few times a year since the 1950s. There’s a little bit of variation– teenage boy may be in high school living at home, or in college living in a dorm; voyeurism may be peeking through a hole in the girls’ locker-room shower or setting up a surreptitious webcam, etc– but the movies just aren’t going to be *that* different, one from the next. The John Cusak and/or John Hughes movies from the 80s were anomalous in how little raunch they contained; but now they exist to get thrown into the movie-making blender along with Porky’s (of which American Pie was already basically a remake, wasn’t it?).