Voyagner

Although this movie was released in 2008 I’ve only just discovered it and searching for review I could not find any reviews on any travel blogs.

This movie has a really, really weird beginning Conner (Christopher Masterson, Malcom in the Middle) is about to get married to his high school sweetheart, they are planning the house, kids, everything. Then at the start of the wedding ceremony he produces a compromising photo of his wife to be and his best man, and so the journey begins.

Conner arrives in Guatemala with some humorous first travel experiences, crazy taxi rides, dodgy showers, robbery and desirous Dutch girls, it works and shows the education of most new travelers.

It all gets a bit cheesy right before the Darien adventure begins though, Johnny Messner isn’t the least bit convincing and everything he says feels like there is some poor guy off camera feeding him his lines who could have played the part infinitely better.

After the jungle adventure Conner begins to travel in a more relate-able way to most backpackers and we are treated to some nice South American scenery, Conner now has a girlfriend and travel buddy and the movie becomes more reflective, it makes its point but when the last scene rolls around I can’t help but wonder if everything after the Darien adventure was just leading to a lousy joke.

It’s no masterpiece but worth a look, the makers of this film also made one called “Somewhere” which looks interesting, unfortunately I can’t find a way I can get my hands on it. See the trailer for Somewhere here.