Whether you're freshly out of the Martin Lawrence-Raven Simone College Road Trip movie or you're jonesing for something that's a little more entertaining (and by a little I mean a lot), here is a list of well-rated and high-grossing road trip movies:
TOP 10 HIGHEST GROSSING
1. Wild Hogs ($168 mil): Middle-aged comedians get slapstick happy while on a "man's" trip to finding their inner youth--that doesn't exist--and avoiding a biker gang that's gotta grudge.
2. Dumb and Dumber ($127 mil): Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels master the art of stupidity while on the road.
3. Are We There Yet? ($82 mil): Um, Ice Cube--yes, the rapper--drives two kids to their mother for the Christmas holiday when her job delays her from getting home in time. He's imprisoned in the "friend zone" and this is his last ditch effort to get into her pants--something that her overly protective kids are going to make awfully difficult to do.
4. RV ($71 mil): Easily the most unfunny Robin Williams film ever, but with all of his pratfalls during his journey on an unforgettable family vacation to the Colorado Rockies that doubles as a business endeavor you're sure to laugh at least...twice.
5. Sideways ($71 mil): Two schlubs--a wannabe writer and a hack of an actor--go on a road trip to the vineyards to pretty much get plastered and wasted before one gets married, and in the process realize that they're pathetic middle-aged losers...or something like that.
6. Road Trip ($68 mil): Some idiot accidentally records himself cheating on his girlfriend and then accidentally mails it to her, so he and his buddies drive all the way to her college to retrieve it before she can see it. Um, Tom Green is in it.
7. About Schmidt ($65 mil): Jack Nicholson plays a guy who's practically having a midlife crisis because his wife died and his daughter's marrying a putz, but he still drives all the way to the wedding to give her away.
8. 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation ($61 mil): Oh Chevy Chase at his tackiest. He plays the father in a family on a roadtrip towards a theme park. Even though he plans everything down to the last minute, nothing goes right.
9. Little Miss Sunshine ($60 mil): A family of pathetic hopeless misfits put aside their issues and drive to the finals of a children's beauty pageant in a VW bus to cheer on their youngest.
10. The Blues Brothers ($57 mil): A former incarcerated orphan and his brother try to save the nunnery they were raised in by staging a huge gig with their band and raising the necessary funds--mayhem ensues. Think of it as Dan Aykroyd's breakout role and John Belushi's last epic role.
TOP 15 (highest grossing) WELL-RATED (appreciated by both audience members and critics) 1. National Lampoon's Vacation
2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Steve Martin and John Candy get under each other's skin as they are obligated to take the same car home together in order to reach their families in time for Thanksgiving.
3. Sideways
4. Y tu mamá también: It's a racy, Mexican, romantic dramedy with Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal playing teenage boys on a roadtrip with a hot woman.
5. About Schmidt
6. The Blues Brothers
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): It's not exactly your average roadtrip, so much as a massacre that'll make you never want to leave the city again.
9. Rain Man: Most people don't remember that in this Tom Cruise-Dustin Hoffman cult classic all of their antics happen while they travel cross country after Hoffman gets an inheritance from his father that is a whole lot more generous than Cruises's.
10. Broken Flowers: When Bill Murray discovers that he has a son he decides to go on a cross country trip to find all the women he's been with to figure out where he went wrong.
11. Into the wild: It's more of an on-the-road type of movie than a let's-hop-in-a-car type of trip. This boy is wandering around looking for a meaning to life most of us are afraid to learn.
12. Transamerica: A male transexual who's fathered a teenage runaway that hustles on the street takes an unexpected journey with his son before he officially has an operation to become a woman. Not exactly kid-friendly.
13. Joy Ride: This is sort of like Texas Chainsaw mixed with Scream. But instead of the serial killer being on a phone, he's on a CB trucker radio, and instead of him asking for their favorite scary movie, he taunts them and tries to pick them off one by one. (For more horror road trip movies there's The Hitcher and Jeepers Creepers.)
14. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle: Um yeah, two potheads have a mean craving for some White Castle burgers to hit the spot, but it just so happens that it takes them all freaking night to get to one.
15. Nurse Betty: A woman who suffers shock after watching her husband get murdered becomes delusional and accidentally drives to LA with the murderer's drugs in her trunk to see a soap opera star she thinks is her fiancee.
MY TOP 5 PICKS
1. EuroTrip: After getting royally dumped, a high school graduate decides to backpack through Europe before college. Seriously if you've ever dreamed of traveling, this is a nice little precursor for what might happen, but mostly for what most definitely won't happen. lol
2. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle: I'm not a pothead, BUT potheads are funny.
3. Thelma & Louise: A man tries to rape Thelma and Louise kills him, so they head towards Mexico to escape the law. I don't actually have any recollection of this movie, but I do know that they drive off a cliff together in sisterly solidarity and that Brad Pitt is one of their conquests. That's good enough for me.
4. Overnight Delivery: I realize that Paul Rudd has better films to his credit--like Clueless, lol--but after watching him send an angry break up letter--obviously before email was popular--because he thought his girlfriend was cheating on him and then realizing he was horribly wrong, his roadtrip with an unlikely female driver chasing down mail trucks and trying to beat the mail man to her dorm door is personally more entertaining than the updated, VHS-mailing version of Road Trip.
5. A Goofy Movie: Alright, shut up. Goofy takes his son Max on a fishing trip to shake the rebellious hormonal teen out of him, but Max is hellbent on catching hot Roxanne's eye, so he endeavors to impress her by appearing on stage at the coolest concert in town. They should really make a live action version of this. Alright my dork-out is over.
Did I miss any that you love?
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