Road Trip: Beer Pong

This movie was basically exactly what it portrayed itself as. It was stupid, sometimes funny, and raunchy. The plot itself is pretty silly and the antics that happen during the road trip are pretty amateur. If you like watching movies about college kids being idiots, this is a good movie for that. If you are looking for a movie with good jokes and a sensible plot, this movie is not really that.

It's not as good as the original and it tries to borrow too much from it, and everything that happens is pretty predictable and uninspired, but the whole thing is still tied down to an interesting, mostly fun road trip nonetheless.

It has a really generic cringe-inducing final segment where the guy is caught "cheating" and annoying dramatic music plays as he has to apologize to his "true love" and chase her and trash like that, like in literally every garbage uninspired romcom, but other than that, it's not too bad.

Especially for a direct-to-dvd thing with I assume a low budget.

Beer pong is a game of impulsiveness, immaturity, and amplified distractions, so the fact that Road Trip: Beer Pong has all these characteristics, I suppose it can be seen as faithful to its subject matter. That's about one of the only things I can credit the film for, as it seems to be predicated off of the worst tendencies in contemporary raunchy comedies.

The film stars Preston Jones as Andy, a simple college kid with a loyal but somewhat oppressive girlfriend (Julianna Guill), who has just transferred to Andy's college in Ithaca. Andy and his buds Korkin (Michael Trotter, who looks nothing shy of a young Ashton Kutcher) and Razor (Daniel Newman) are beer pong players for their college and are about to compete in the national tournament. Things get better when Andy realizes that one of the beer pong advertised is a young French woman whom he had a thing with years back. Now they have an extra incentives to head out to nationals and decide to take a road trip. Blink if you think it'll be a crazy ride. It all starts when they try and gain sponsorship from a local despot named Arash (Danny Pudi), whose native country has a coup leading him and the group of collegians arrested and abandoned in a random town in Maine.

The film opens as an orientation of the college by current student Kyle Edwards, who returns from the original Road Trip film reprised by DJ Qualls. I've mentioned my appreciation for Qualls as an actor and screen-presence, mainly for his charming, every-man nature and likable charisma. Even in this film, as mediocre and as dreary as it is, Qualls finds humor and likability. Even if he is consistently being hit on by a mother-daughter team attending the campus tour.

The bar has been raised for comedies in the last eight or so years. Comedies like Road Trip: Beer Pong are similar to the series of spin-offs bearing the American Pie name, as they appeal to the smaller percentages by marketing the lowest common denominator of comedy. These are films that feature excessive nudity and confuse zealous amounts of language and bawdiness for wit and humor. Compare this to the films of Judd Apatow, some of the most humanistic and hilarious comedies you'll be able find in this day and age.

Because the bar has been raised, my main complaint with Road Trip: Beer Pong is its inability to even function as a faithful member of its genre. It mistakes excessive vulgarity and nudity for humor, completely shunning the most crucial factor in comedy, which is obviously the writing. To do that alone is a very poor move; to have it leach onto a film from 2000 and have such minimal continuity from it - like one character - in hopes to garner more viewership is nothing shy of disingenuous.

Starring: Preston Jones, Michael Trotter, Daniel Newman, Julianna Guill, Danny Pudi, and DJ Qualls. Directed by: Steve Rash.

"Road Trip: Beer Pong" is a Comedy movie and the sequel of the 2000 hit "Road Trip" in which we follow a group of college friends as they travel to a national beer pong tournament, facing a series of outrageous challenges along the way.

Since I had already watched and enjoyed the first movie I had some expectations of its sequel. Despite that the movie had its moments of humor, it was relying heavily on juvenile antics rather than clever writing or fresh ideas. The characters were underdeveloped, and the interpretations, particularly from the new cast members, struggled to match the energy and charm of the original movie. In addition, the plot lacked the same sense of urgency or excitement that made the first "Road Trip" so enjoyable. To sum up, I have to say that "Road Trip: Beer Pong" is an average comedy movie that failed to capture the spirit of its predecessor so, I don't recommend it.

lemme start off by telling you i have been waiting for this one for a long time. I totally forgot what was in the first one but it was funny...this one though....not so much.

first the acting was not good at all...it was just mediocre. people illustrated themselves as party people pretty good but their was no fire behind it.

second if you wanted to see this movie for the T&A you will get some but not a lot. the nude scenes were pretty hot but if you been waited to see if Julianna Guill would show some skin...keep on waiting cause she only shows cleavage and thats the best it gets. You probably will never see her performance in Friday the 13th ever again. she does get more scenes and stuff which is cool cause she has a hot voice.

third the concept of beer pong is pretty cool but is shown basically nothing. I seen those youtube clips of people making amazing shots from different angles and thought this movie was gonna show more but it was so so and it was more like Road Trip: Beer Pong Chicks.

fourth if you seen a lot of comedy movies and such you will fully predict what happens..so it was kinda boring for me but yeah very very predictable.

all in all its a flick that you could see in your spare time or if you just want to watch it for the chicks in it. there definitely are some great hilarious moments but they last for like 3 seconds.