Euro Trip Review
by Susan Granger (ssg722 AT aol DOT com)February 23rd, 2004
Susan Granger's review of "Eurotrip" (Dreamworks Pictures)
Despite the fact that this raucous teen comedy is "from the producers of 'Road Trip' and 'Old School,'" it doesn't measure up to either. And that bar is set none too high.
Recent Cleveland, Ohio, high-school grad Scott Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz) sets off for Europe with his best friend Cooper (Jacob Pitts), joining the twins Jimmy (Travis Webster) and Jennifer (Michelle Trachenberg). Scott's mission is to hook up with his German cyber pen-pal Mieke (Jessica Bohrs) in Berlin but each of his traveling companions has his/her own agenda.
Director Jeff Schaffer and his co-writers Alec Berg and David Mandel ("The Cat in the Hat") string together a series of bland, contrived comedy sketches that pass for a plot, punctuated by profanity. While in London, they're surrounded by soccer hooligans. In France, the guys hit the nude beach, only to discover that it's filled with other naked guys. In Amsterdam, Cooper finds a bordello that specializes in sexual torture. Finally, in the Vatican, a confessional booth is utilized in a tasteless way not intended by the Church. Funny? That depends on your sense of humor and glee in celebrity cameos from Lucy Lawless, Matt Damon and Jeffrey Tabor. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Eurotrip" is a raunchy, sexually explicit 5. At every turn, the silly debauchery takes the low road.
Originally posted in the rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup. Copyright belongs to original author unless otherwise stated. We take no responsibilities nor do we endorse the contents of this review.
