By balancing its party - minded ethic with a climactic test (albeit a crammed - for one), Road Trip winds up being a touch more college - comprehensive than
the average kegger - comedy, but humor connoisseurs will note its flatness, room temperature, and empty calories.
Director J Blakeson, working from a script credited to some heavy - hitting veteran writers (Akiva Goldsman, Susannah Grant and Jeff Pinkner), quickly establishes that Moretz's Cassie used to be a pretty
average teenage girl in an idyllic Ohio town: soccer practice,
keggers, a wisecracking best friend, an adorable younger brother (Zackary Arthur) and loving parents (Ron Livingston and Maggie Siff).