Going the Distance (2004)

Is it really the way comedies should follow. I can't believe that watching such trash, and I mean real trash is enjoyable. People who watch this and laugh their ass off are surely low on a ICQ, surely they will laugh if you make a flick about two people shitting at each other. You can put this piece of $^%^$^&%$&^ along with the another flick White Coats. Same humor, same idiotic situations. Still there is one thing funny about this movie, the makers of it trying to be at the end of it very firm about love aspect(yeah, right). I can't believe I've wasted almost 90 minutes on this picture. May God himself forgive you when you are burning in hell.

After having watched American Pie: Bandcamp, this is a rather refreshing take on the teen-movie road-trip genre. Sure, I spotted parallels to Harold & Kumar, Roadtrip, etc., but this movie was different. Maybe it was because the acting was fresh or because the dialogue was real, but this movie carries some--albeit crude--personality. The biggest feat was the lack of gimmicks; sorry kiddies, no stoned cheetahs, voyeur robots, or drawn-out cameos. There's enough human behavior to get you buzzed by the philosophy of it all, but not so much as to not have a good time. On the other extreme, the film is tasteful, not raunchy, and has great sense of adult humor. It's like a diluted high school version of Sideways.

This movie might as well have been called "Canadian Road Trip" as it follows "Road Trip" almost to the letter. Starting with the characters: the romantic lead, the pot-hungry friend, and the party-crazed, loud friend. All three take off on an adventure to save the lead's relationship. Along the way, they lose their vehicle, run out of money, the loud, party guy takes it in the corn-hole and enjoys it, the pot-smoker gives dope to an old man, and in the end, the main character ends up breaking up with the girlfriend to be with the other girl. There's even a point where a fire extinguisher is set off.All that being said, I liked "Road trip" and also enjoyed this movie. Some fresh jokes thrown in with some of the oldest laughs ever. The farmer's daughter bit at first I thought was going to be dumb, but it turned out to be worth a good laugh. And the hippie parents were a riot. Cameos don't overly impress me in any movie, but if you're into cameos, then the appearances of Avril, GOB, Swollen Members, and George Whatever-his-name-is from Much music should satisfy your need for celebrities in this film.With the film makers obviously trying to show the diversity of Canada's landscape and lifestyles. Starting with the west coast beaches, the prairie carnival, the Montreal strip club, and "floggin' fish and chips" in Newfoundland. And for the back-drop, everything from The Rockies to icebergs. I have to say, it's nice for once to watch a movie where the settings are familiar to me. Seeing places that I've actually been to locally.If you wanna good laugh and not have to think too hard, then this is one that you'll wanna see.

The most-hyped Canadian film of the year, at the climax of which Jason Priestly pulls a used condom out of his own mouth.The kindest thing I've heard other people say is that it's "really a lot like American Pie" or whatever.Yeah, so much so that you can see (it's not too difficult) where they tried to amateurishly ape even those bad movies. You can have fun with your friends spotting all the ripped off jokes from other better bad movies, including (thanks Me, Myself, and Irene) a scene in which a young man gets sodomized by two fortysomething women. Seeing as they're, like, straight out of high school, I can only say:Man, statutory rape is a *gut-buster*!MuchMusic ought to be proud.Telefilm ought to sober up.Canadians should grab torches and pitchforks.Anyway.