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'ROAD TRIP' TOM GREEN, TALKING DOG WILL HAVE YOU 'TRIP'-ING.


Byline: - Glenn Whipp

Breckin Meyer Breckin Erin Meyer[1] (born May 7, 1974) is an American actor and producer. Biography
Early life
Meyer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Dorothy Ann (Vial), a travel agent and former microbiologist, and Christopher William Meyer, a management
, the star of this summer's designated keg-party movie ``Road Trip,'' has never actually taken a road trip himself, which he admits is pretty pathetic. Then again, if the road trips he was to take turned out anything like the one in the movie, he'd be better off locking his doors and staying at home.

The gross-out comedy ``Road Trip'' has Meyer and some buddies driving from Ithaca, N.Y., to Austin, Texas, to retrieve a videotape that Meyer's college friend accidentally sent to his long-distance girlfriend. The tape features proof of a night of drunken infidelity, hence the urgency to recover it.

``The movie's got everything a summer movie needs,'' Meyer says. ``Sperm banks, tainted taint  
v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints

v.tr.
1. To affect with or as if with a disease.

2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.

3.
 french toast, infidelities, naked girls - emphasis on the naked girls - and a talking dog. Oh, and Tom Green eats a mouse.''

Green, MTV's resident guerilla freak, plays Meyer's roommate. Director Todd Phillips says Green's tribulations with the mouse are among the movie's funniest moments, but he also wants people to know that his comedy isn't entirely geared toward adolescent (in body and/or spirit) males.

``Women seem to like it, too,'' Phillips says. ``I mean, it treats women in an interesting way, showing that the girl has a lot of power in most situations. The women here are very proactive, and they win in the end. I think it shows that it's OK for women to be sexually aggressive sexually aggressive adjective Relating to potentially violent behavior focused on gratification of sexual drives, regardless of the desire for participation on the part of the partner. See Sexually dangerous.  and make the first move.''

Hmmm, proactive, sexually aggressive women. Isn't that every adolescent male's fantasy, particularly if the emphasis is, as Meyer says it is, on them being naked?

``Well, I guess it is,'' Phillips admits. ``Did I mention we have a talking dog?''

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Photo: DJ Qualls Donald Joseph Qualls (born June 10, 1978) from Nashville, Tennessee, is an actor, better known as DJ Qualls. Biography
Qualls was raised in Manchester, Tennessee, as one of five children. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, at age 14.
, left, Seann William Scott William Scott may refer to:
  • William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, English eccentric
  • William Scott, Lord Stowell (1745–1836), English lawyer
  • William L. Scott, U.S. senator from Virginia
  • W. Kerr Scott, a U.S.
, Breckin Meyer and Paulo Costanzo Paulo Costanzo (born September 21, 1978 in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian actor of Italian and Jewish ancestry, who is perhaps best-known for his roles in the 2000 comedy Road Trip and the sitcom Joey which ran from 2004-2006.  see their travel plans go up in flames In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal.  in ``Road Trip,'' coming May 19.
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Date:Apr 30, 2000
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