Detour

Detour (2002) Warning…Warning…this is a dead teenager movie! None of the characters are very engaging and one of them you will wish had an early death after listening to him spout off in some form of urban-wannabe language. Unfortunately, he is one of the few survivors and you have to listen to him rant for the whole movie. I just couldn’t tell what the heck he was saying outside of the standard mix of four letter words. Yo, seems to be his word of choice in most of his soliloquies. In addition, the girls are really dumb but at least wear dangerously short shorts at times.

Don’t bother thinking about the plot too much; you’ve seen it hundreds of times before. This time our group of teens attends a ‘rave’ in the desert using an RV as a base. They then go in search of a rumored patch of peyote somewhere out in the desert not realizing there are loonies in the boonies. They run into a bunch of CRAP (Cannibalistic Residents And Pinheads) in the desert who have trouble verbalizing their desires but are real good with sharp implements. Soon the teeners are reduced in number but still dogmatically stay with the RV which conveniently gets stuck near CRAP headquarters. The teens fight back and eventually the CRAP hits the fan and a couple teens get away but who really cares. Luckily, the RV becomes unstuck when the movie ends, a little late for most of the cast. The movie is rated R for: extreme violence, brief ingénudity, really short shorts, characters with walnut sized brains (both CRAP and victims), and for the white rapper wanna-be, the most annoying character I’ve seen in a long time.