Sex Drive is another foray into the land of the male libido and the quest to lose one's virginity (why is it that these films are always about young men?). As a teenage rite of passage film, Sex Drive is treading on very familiar territory — Risky Business and American Pie come to mind as highlights of the genre. This film, on the other hand, is a poor imitation of the teenage sex comedy with more T. & A. than humour.
    Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a high school senior feeling the pressure to lose it his virginity. He can't seem to talk to girls, and the only girl he is comfortable around is his disinterested best friend Felicia, but she's busy harbouring a secret crush of her own. What's a horny 18 year old to do? Enter best bro Lance, a ladies man despite his nerdy appearance. Lance tells Ian to drop the nice-guy act because girls love a challenge. Ian tries out this new strategy online and meets “Ms Tasty,” but she's a nine-hour drive away.
    The film now moves into road trip territory with a dash of Ferris Bueller's Day Off thrown in for good measure. Lance, Felica and Ian stealing his Ian’s brother’s car and hit the open road. Their journey is sidetracked by an Amish "Rumspringer" party, a mechanical breakdown and myriad other problems.
    Sean Anders is the director of this hodgepodge film, which fails to be anything more than a cinematic mess. Anders is working from an all-too-familiar plotline, and the empty characters and gross-out script don’t help at all in elevating the material.
    The lead trio is made up of TV sidekicks, making the film a perpetual "where have I seen this guy before” exercise. A prominent cameo by Seth Green as a sarcastic Amish farmer is one of the film’s sole highlights. The other major cameo, by James Marsden, is harder to justify. Who knows why Marsden took on the role of Ian’s homophobic older brother? One would hope he did it as a favour for a friend, and that dude now owes him big time.