Touches You

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Going the Distance (2004): Dir: Mark Griffiths / Cast: Christopher Jacot, Joanne Kelly, Shawn Roberts, Ryan Belleville, Jason Priestley: With Avril Lavigne making a cameo the studio hopes to lure in the teens that make up most of her fan base. Unfortunately they fail to mention the content that features jokes about oral sex and location shots in strip clubs. It is a trashy teen comedy about goals as our young lead treks to Toronto in an R.V. to propose to his girlfriend who is attending the Much Music Video Awards with a sleazy producer. His parents dislike the girl so they hire someone to prevent them from hitting their destination. Along the way they pick up two female hitchhikers who just happen to be singers. How convenient that must be. Standard road movie descends into a series of vulgar situations. Director Mark Griffiths does his best and features fine footage of the video awards with celebrity cameos. Cast of unknowns include Christopher Jacot, Joanne Kelly, Shawn Roberts, and Ryan Belleville who are cast as the basic teen movie stereotypes of little brains. Jason Priestley even makes a desperate cameo taking the stage and allowing his career to slowly die within this shame. Everything save for the video award show has been done before in movies every bit as bad as this one. Viewers should go the distance to place this pointless vulgar mess in the trash. Score: 3 / 10

Even though this movie has it moments, for the most part it is all the same lame jokes that have been in the rest of the high school crowd movies. It wasn't so original. I would say it was just the Canadian version of American Pie, Trojan War, and the rest of the looking to get laid/road trip movies out there. The main character has hippie laid back parents, lives in a quiet surfing village yet is a little on the up tight site.Another issue I had with this movie is why not fly across the country to be with the love of his life instead of cutting so close driving across. Overall, if nothing else is on on TV, it ain't so bad that would make you want to change the channel.

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

The most-hyped Canadian film of the year, at the climax of which Jason Priestly pulls a used condom out of his own mouth.The kindest thing I've heard other people say is that it's "really a lot like American Pie" or whatever.Yeah, so much so that you can see (it's not too difficult) where they tried to amateurishly ape even those bad movies. You can have fun with your friends spotting all the ripped off jokes from other better bad movies, including (thanks Me, Myself, and Irene) a scene in which a young man gets sodomized by two fortysomething women. Seeing as they're, like, straight out of high school, I can only say:Man, statutory rape is a *gut-buster*!MuchMusic ought to be proud.Telefilm ought to sober up.Canadians should grab torches and pitchforks.Anyway.