Going the Distance (2004)

Note Générale:

5,3/10   

Réalisateur:

Mark Griffiths

Scénaristes:

Eric Goodman (writer)
Kelly Senecal (writer)

Date de sortie:

20 août 2004 (Canada)

Genre:

Comedie

Accroche:

They came. They saw. They came.

Intrigue:

He may have just graduated but Nick has it all figured out - marriage, a lucrative career and a totally...

Plot Keywords:

Road Trip | Toronto | Train | Cross Country | Marijuana

Récompenses:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

The downfall of National Lampoon continues

Ensemble

Christopher Jacot	...	Nick
Joanne Kelly	...	Sasha
Shawn Roberts	...	Tyler
Mayko Nguyen	...	Jill
Ryan Belleville	...	Dime
Katheryn Winnick	...	Trish
August Schellenberg	...	Emile
Matt Frewer	...	Farmer Joseph
Jackie Burroughs	...	Mother Libby
Andrew Airlie	...	Jerry
Lynda Boyd	...	Toni
Jay Brazeau	...	Store Clerk
Andy Jones	...	Portly Customer
Jason Priestley	...	Lenny Swackhammer
Christie Laing	...	Sexy Girl (scenes deleted)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Get On (USA) (working title)
Much Music Movie (Canada: English title) (working title)
National Lampoon's Going the Distance (USA) (DVD box title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, crude humor, language and drug use.

Durée:

Canada:93 min | Argentina:93 min

Pays:

Canada

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,78 : 1

Classification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Argentina:13 | Netherlands:12 | USA:R | Australia:MA | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:13+ (Québec)

Lieux de tournage:

Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada

Société:

Brightlight Pictures

Anecdotes:

Both Shawn Roberts and Christopher Jacot appeared on Degrassi: The Next Generation on The N as Paige Michalchuk's (Lauren Collins) love interests. Shawn Roberts played Dean, a guy who was interested in Paige and then raped her and Jacot played Matt Oleander, Paige's teacher who later dates her, and then dumps her.

Guillemet:

[after meeting two older cowgirl women in their motel's bar, they both invite Tyler to their room. They then tell him to lie down and surprise him by tying him up to the bed]
Tyler: Whatever you're doing back there, just... be careful because I bruise easy.
Karma: What do you think, Claire? Should we use the baby carrot or the Excalibur?
Tyler: Oh, baby carrot. Baby carrot.
Claire: Gosh, honey, it looks like we left the carrot at home. Too bad. So very, very sad. Load me up.
[Karma raises up the Excalibur and Claire oils it up]
Tyler: Oh, dear Lord.
[...]

Connexions:

Références 2004 Much Music Video Music Awards (2004) (TV)

Bande son:

Firesuite

The downfall of National Lampoon continues

It used to be that having National Lampoon in the title meant comedy gold. Two of the greatest comedies of all time, ANIMAL HOUSE and VACATION carried the National Lampoon banner. Throughout the 90s, National Lampoon continued to lend its name to such classics as SENIOR TRIP and LOADED WEAPON 1. For a while, it seemed like the greatness of the National Lampoon name would never die, especially after 2002's VAN WILDER, the closest college comedy to ANIMAL HOUSE since REVENGE OF THE NERDS. Then in 2003, the Lampoon name was scarred with THANKSGIVING FAMILY REUNION, a bad TV movie that premiered on TBS. That same year the Lampoon took another blow with the mediocre NATIONAL LAMPOON PRESENTS DORM DAZE. Now with GOING THE DISTANCE, the downfall of National Lampoon continues.

GOING THE DISTANCE isn't even an American made movie. It's a Canadian ROAD TRIP clone that has nothing to do with the National Lampoon name. The only slightest Lampoon element was the whole guy-trying-to-ruin trip subplot was also done in SENIOR TRIP, but at least there it was funny. Here, it's the weakest part of the movie. It just doesn't work. In fact, 50% of the jokes in GOING THE DISTANCE don't work, which is rather unfortunate since the film had potential. I dug the first few opening scenes and thought that the film could end up being worthy of the National Lampoon name. However, after fifteen minutes had gone by, I realized this was sadly yet another direct-to-video dud. There were a few good laughs and Joanne Kelly was quite cute, but that wasn't enough to save this flick. 4/10