Two brothers, a trouble maker and a clean cut college kid who sold his plane tickets to buy a car to pick up a girl he's not even dating, head out on the road. As a peace offering for an earlier blunder, big brother Fuller (Steven Zahn) buys little brother Lewis (Paul Walker) a CB radio. And thus begins the excitement.

Not ten minutes into the drive, the boys decide that deceiving an unknown trucker that they're actually a woman would be a good idea. Yeah, right. So, you've seen the trailers and know that some guy ends up dead, because the trucker came looking for some hot lovin' and didn't get it. Our duo hits the road again, only to find out that "Rusty Nail", our villain, knows who they are. Cue the scary music.

They have a would-be terrifying encounter with an ice truck driver who, actually, is only trying to give Lewis back his credit card after he bolted out of a gas station like a scared little pony. This is where J.J. Abrams (or maybe his writing partner) give us the best line of the film, "Well, we're okay now that we're not MURDERED!" But things aren't okay for long, because Rusty Nail isn't far behind. He takes the time to almost crush them against a tree until they apologize, and then disappears into the night. Woo.

They fix the car (for everything else, there's MasterCard) and pick up Venna (Helen Hunt, er... Lee Lee Sobieski). We briefly meet her roomate/friend, Charlotte, and learn that Fuller will apparently have sex with anything that has breasts.

Fast forward to new motel, they get a room for themselves and one for Helen Hunt (they're such gentlemen) and head to the bar where they throw back thirteen gallons of tequila. Venna heads to the bar for one more round when a trucker type guy hits on her. After she declines, he continues to give her a hard time. Lewis tries to step in and save her, but three truckers on one "Mama's Boy" isn't quite fair. Trucker man tells Lewis that he should "shut [his] bitch up", which he won't. Thank God for Fuller's common sense (cue the second thrill of the film), which leads him to grab Venna and shout "Shut up, bitch!". The truckers relent and I laugh until I cry.

We then find out that Rusty Nail is still on the prowl and he has Charlotte. Blah, blah, blah... they get chased through a corn field, Venna gets 'napped, the car blows up, they have to get to a motel in [insert town here] by midnight or she dies.

And then... well, maybe you should SEE IT!

In closing, I will tell you that some of the crappy motels seen in this film are in my hometown. We're so proud.

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