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Avg. Critic Score: 55 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    I'm talking cheap visual gags, painfully embarrassing moments and other sophomoric humor guaranteed to get you and your friends almost vomiting with laughter. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Slick, reasonably amusing, never asking its audience to swallow anything too wild for consumption. Read full review

  • 70
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    As long as Green is onscreen, which is not nearly enough, Road Trip is easy to get revved up about. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    It satisfies your appetite for totally tasteless but deliciously flaky boy movies. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Be forewarned: After you see Road Trip, it may be months, if not years, before you can order French toast with a straight face and a settled stomach. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    We all know grossly moronic behavior can, in the right situation, generate hearty guilty-pleasure guffaws - at least until overkill wears out the welcome. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Bad taste is timeless. And sometimes it can be so funny that you can't help laughing. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The film's real find is D.J. Qualls, who is very funny as a jug-eared nerd who blossoms into a wild man after three days on the road. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's sweet when it should be raunchy, or vice versa, and the result is a movie that seems uneasy with itself. Read full review

  • 38
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Vulgar for some parents, but teens will love.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the version of this movie on video includes even raunchier scenes deleted before theatrical release in order to get an R rating. The unrated version released on the video would have been likely to receive an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, and parents might want to view it themselves before allowing their children or teenagers to watch it, even if they saw it in the theater. There's foul language, crude humor, nudity, sexual situations, and a character who does drugs to hide his sensitivity.
  • Families can talk about the appeal of raunchy comedies such as this one. Do characters and plot matter, or are the jokes the most important part?
What to watch for
  • violence false2 Violence: Comic violence.
  • sex false4 Sex: Frequent and explicit sexual references and situations, nudity.
  • language false4 Language: Strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, smoking, and drug use.
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