Distributor:
Universal Home Entertainment Certificate: MA15+ | 88
Minutes Available to buy Directors: Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Scott
Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Webster
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Scotty
Thomas and his Berlin-based
cyber ‘pen pal’ Mieke have
been writing each other for
years, sharing every detail of
their lives. When Mieke makes a
pass at Scotty, in German, he
freaks out that a guy he has
known for years is coming on to
him…The one detail Scotty
doesn’t seem to know is that
in Germany, Mieke is a girl’s
name. By the time Scotty figures
out that Mieke is a girl, and a
hot one at that, Mieke has
disconnected her email address
and cut off all contact with
him. Thinking this could be his
chance at true love, even though
he’s never met the girl,
Scotty and his best friends,
Cooper and twins Jenny and
Jamie, embark on a raucous trip
across Europe
– destination Berlin.
Their trek takes them from London
to Paris,
Amsterdam
to Eastern
Europe,
exposing them – literally –
to every lascivious, larcenous
and lecherous indulgence on
offer.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
A
spin on the Road Trip theme with this time Europe getting the works, yes
it is crude, lecherous and full of stereotypes but its also extremely
funny, the movie is more of a series of sketches though as the quartet
hit various parts of Europe so we encounter the British football
hooligan in London (Vinnie Jones turns in an amusing cameo as a foul
mouthed yobbo – so no acting required there), the rude Frenchman (cue
a great punch up with a robotic street entertainer “I am ze real
robot, not you”) as well as a sidestep into a down at heel Eastern
Europe
Bratislava and a trip to Amsterdam for a spot of S&M featuring a PVC
clad and whip brandishing Lucy Lawless, also keep an out for a David
Hasselhoff sings moment just when you least expect it and a majorly
unexpected cameo from Matt Damon as a girlfriend stealing, pierced,punk rocking singer. Eurotrip seems to have more genuine humour
than most of the other recent American Pie styled sex comedies but gets
bogged down slightly in the final 10 minutes as the inevitable happy
ending rears its head. An enjoyable movie that doesn’t have any
pretensions to grandeur.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Extras
are pretty good, highlight would have to be Vinnie Jones off the cuff
swearathon as the Man Utd bus hits Paris but other goodies include a low
key alternate ending, funny commentary from the directing trio, various
out-takes and deleted scenes, an extended look at the (all male) nude
beach sequence, a very short piece about how the trio of directors
decided who would receive the single director credit and a chance to
view part of an early Eurotip bootleg complete with peoples heads in the
cinema in the way.
