The idea of "road trip" conjures up thoughts of weird and wild antics. And that is certainly this movie. The story was all over the map (pun intended). Basically is was several disjointed episodes strung together to move two adversarial coworkers across the country and give them the chance to fall in love. There were also a couple of wild scenes for Maya's ex. None of the story could be considered serious, so any attempt to look for reality or things that make sense would be wasted. The actions of the characters didn't make sense. The situations they found themselves in didn't make sense. But all that was intentional. Road trip.
If you compare this to your average romance movie, the story is not at all like any I can remember.
Like the story, trying to analyze the acting or characters makes no sense either. At the beginning of the movie I was certain there was no way I could ever like Patrick much less want him to hook up with Maya. Then I discovered that Maya wasn't likely to be much fun either. Yet you can guess what happened. The ex was just plain lame.
There were a few small laughs and sometimes it felt like it was so sad that it was funny. In some ways, it was a horrible movie, but that's just it. Some of it was so bad it was good and there wee a few nice moments.
