Eight Great Road Trip Comedy Movies
Sideways
Ah Wine Country. Going from place to place. Getting drunk. Falling in love. Getting into crazy adventures. Cheating on your wife. Getting left for dead naked in the cold. It’s all such family fun in this hilarious comedy about a struggling writer and his friend who is about to get married. They go off for one last hoorah before the big day and settle on Wine Country in the Napa Valley as their destination.
Cannonball Run
This one was a classic. Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise manning an Ambulance on a cross country race to defy the law. Cannonball Run is about a bunch of misfits who enter a car race to see who can make it the fastest without getting caught by the cops.
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Do I even have to talk about this movie? Didn’t think so.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I’m always kind of 50/50 on this movie. I mean it was definitely a fun and good hearted movie but I’m not sure how funny it really was. Typical John Hughes greatness mind you but I just didn’t think it was that funny. Still though, a very solid movie all the way through and Steven Martin and John Candy were a great team.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is Hilarious especially the Pillow scene. This along with Midnight Run are my two favorites on this List. on a side not while not entirely a Road trip film but has many roadtrips in it I’m amazed not to see Tommy Boy on this list.
Dutch. – An Ed O’Neil classic.
“Da Nero” huh??
you missed ‘the trip’
starring rob brydon and steve coogan (playing versions of themselves… think larry david on ‘curb your enthusiasm’), it’s kinda a british ‘sideways’, as in, they go around beautiful english countryside drinking, eating and cracking wise. the dynamic between the two lead is undeniable and the movie features some truly laugh out loud sequences.
go watch this movie, arguably as funny as anything else on this list (and definitely better than ‘road trip’).
You forgot “Due Date” with Galifianakis and Downey Jr.