Road Trip was very much like "Dude Where’s My Car" for me. In that yes it looked remotely funny but wasn’t something I would spend big bucks to see at the cinema. I still have the same opinion of it after seeing it on DVD. It really is one of those sit at home with a beer and a couple of mates and leave your brain outside kind of film. Really an atypical Hollywood teen flick.

The film has a very limited story line but with a few comedic distractions it still keeps your attention with a few hearty laughs. Basically the film is about 4 college students who set off on a road trip across the U.S. to retrieve a home made video… yes a sexually based one… before it reaches a long distance girlfriend. Josh (Brekin Meyer) has given in to the peer pressure and slept with another girl while he also invests in a long distance relationship with his life long girlfriend, half way across the country. After the two manage to tape the event and Josh’s roommate Barry (Tom Green) manages to mail it to her they face a dire problem. While Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard) is away from home for the weekend the 4 friends decide to drive to Texas to retrieve the offending Video Tape.

It’s the events that happen along the way which really give the movie it’s little depth and humour, exploding cars, stealing a blind school’s bus, running out of cash, visiting other fraternity’s and many other events make for some hilarious scenes.

The transfer is really very sharp throughout and gives an immediate feeling that this will be very good but alas you do get let down a little. There are some significant amounts of edge enhancement, which really become distracting at times. Couple with this are quite frequent instances of a liasing and shimmering, which do distract from the overall image.

The colour spectrum is generally limited and I can see no reason for this. The film presents great opportunities for some brilliant and vibrant colours but I frequently noticed that the colours seemed very washed out and muted. Similarly shadow detail was good but at times lacked clarity.