TB4000
02-22-2004, 03:31 PM
Eurotrip not worth the...trip :rolleyes:
I guess I should be grateful. The creators of Eurotrip could’ve skipped over stereotypes of Europe entirely and opted to make Asia Trip or Africa Trip instead, probably doubling the stereotype quotient, yet making a more plausible fish out of water premise. The trailers and commercials endorse this flick as being made by “the guys that brought you Old School and Road Trip”. Do I really need another reason NOT to shower this thing with compliments? Exactly. Nevertheless, there weren’t too many other films out this week I was dying to see. I had to choose between Lindsay Duff, I mean…Hillary Lohan…whoever she is, Meg Ryan being the tough white chick in a black man’s world(cue outdated hip hop soundtrack), and Ray Romano. So of course, the lesser of the four evils was to view the archetypical rated R teen flick, sad as it is to admit this.
I will own up to it, I laughed a few times during Eurotrip. Not so much because it was laugh out loud hilarious, but because a few of the jokes (few being the operative word) were actually, dare I say…Simpsons quality. Of course, the only reason they work is because of cameos by Matt Damon, David Hasselhoff, and Vinnie Jones, but hey…in this movie, I took what I could get. The plot, if you can call it that, focuses on our main hero Scott Thomas, played by up and comer Scott Mechlowicz, who looks like a cross between Hayden Christensen and that kid from Freaks and Geeks(unfortunately, he inherited Hayden’s Attack of the Clones acting skills as well). His German pen pal has asked to come visit him for the summer, and Scott being as thick as he is, thinks that she is a he, due to his name, and promptly writes her back, telling her he never wants to see her again. Thanks to his little brother’s astute Germanic reading talents however, he discovers too little, too late that Mieke the pen pal is really a female, and his one opportunity to meet her has been dashed. Enter his best friend Cooper. Cooper is played by actor Jacob Pitts, who looks, acts and talks eerily like a teenage David Spade. Had he not been a semi-comedic element of the movie, I fear I would’ve been forced to bang my head against the wall nearest my seat for the entire duration. Cooper’s suggestion…go to Germany, find Mieke, and have wild, animalistic make up sex. Along the way, the meet up with the twins Jenny and Jamie, played by Buffy’s own Michelle “I’m Dawnie-Dawn” Trachtenberg and Travis Wester. Together, they span the continent of Europe by any means necessary in an effort to locate Mieke.
This being Europe, of course they will run into the requisite blatant stereotypes of European society. Let’s see if I can run them down here….in England, they meet up with soccer hooligans who use the word “wank” about once every 15 seconds, in Italy, they meet a gay sexual predator on a train, and France…a mime with which Scott does “robot kung-fu”, complete with exaggerated facial expressions, poses, and stilted dialogue.
Every single one of these scenes plays out like a discarded Mad TV sketch, like the writers were basically in their office eating take out and was like, “let’s throw this joke against the wall, see if it sticks.” However, they did integrate enough nudity to choke a small horse, so if you’re down with that, this is right up your alley. Breasts are present in every scene, and this may be one of the first teen comedies to have copious amounts of full frontal male nudity, so to all the womens complaining about not seeing enough penis on the screen, there you go. They do go through lengths to have Trachtenberg be some eye candy for the guys as well, but whenever she has her shirt off, her body resembles a young boy…call it a generalization if you must, but if your ribs are showing…not very attractive trait to me.
Eurotrip is basically for the teen set who wants to basically prove they have no working brain cells whatsoever at this point in time in their lives. You have to remember, these are the same characters that wrote The Cat in the Hat, so if that’s not reason enough to look at this movie with disdain, I don’t know what else you could possibly be smoking.
I guess I should be grateful. The creators of Eurotrip could’ve skipped over stereotypes of Europe entirely and opted to make Asia Trip or Africa Trip instead, probably doubling the stereotype quotient, yet making a more plausible fish out of water premise. The trailers and commercials endorse this flick as being made by “the guys that brought you Old School and Road Trip”. Do I really need another reason NOT to shower this thing with compliments? Exactly. Nevertheless, there weren’t too many other films out this week I was dying to see. I had to choose between Lindsay Duff, I mean…Hillary Lohan…whoever she is, Meg Ryan being the tough white chick in a black man’s world(cue outdated hip hop soundtrack), and Ray Romano. So of course, the lesser of the four evils was to view the archetypical rated R teen flick, sad as it is to admit this.
I will own up to it, I laughed a few times during Eurotrip. Not so much because it was laugh out loud hilarious, but because a few of the jokes (few being the operative word) were actually, dare I say…Simpsons quality. Of course, the only reason they work is because of cameos by Matt Damon, David Hasselhoff, and Vinnie Jones, but hey…in this movie, I took what I could get. The plot, if you can call it that, focuses on our main hero Scott Thomas, played by up and comer Scott Mechlowicz, who looks like a cross between Hayden Christensen and that kid from Freaks and Geeks(unfortunately, he inherited Hayden’s Attack of the Clones acting skills as well). His German pen pal has asked to come visit him for the summer, and Scott being as thick as he is, thinks that she is a he, due to his name, and promptly writes her back, telling her he never wants to see her again. Thanks to his little brother’s astute Germanic reading talents however, he discovers too little, too late that Mieke the pen pal is really a female, and his one opportunity to meet her has been dashed. Enter his best friend Cooper. Cooper is played by actor Jacob Pitts, who looks, acts and talks eerily like a teenage David Spade. Had he not been a semi-comedic element of the movie, I fear I would’ve been forced to bang my head against the wall nearest my seat for the entire duration. Cooper’s suggestion…go to Germany, find Mieke, and have wild, animalistic make up sex. Along the way, the meet up with the twins Jenny and Jamie, played by Buffy’s own Michelle “I’m Dawnie-Dawn” Trachtenberg and Travis Wester. Together, they span the continent of Europe by any means necessary in an effort to locate Mieke.
This being Europe, of course they will run into the requisite blatant stereotypes of European society. Let’s see if I can run them down here….in England, they meet up with soccer hooligans who use the word “wank” about once every 15 seconds, in Italy, they meet a gay sexual predator on a train, and France…a mime with which Scott does “robot kung-fu”, complete with exaggerated facial expressions, poses, and stilted dialogue.
Every single one of these scenes plays out like a discarded Mad TV sketch, like the writers were basically in their office eating take out and was like, “let’s throw this joke against the wall, see if it sticks.” However, they did integrate enough nudity to choke a small horse, so if you’re down with that, this is right up your alley. Breasts are present in every scene, and this may be one of the first teen comedies to have copious amounts of full frontal male nudity, so to all the womens complaining about not seeing enough penis on the screen, there you go. They do go through lengths to have Trachtenberg be some eye candy for the guys as well, but whenever she has her shirt off, her body resembles a young boy…call it a generalization if you must, but if your ribs are showing…not very attractive trait to me.
Eurotrip is basically for the teen set who wants to basically prove they have no working brain cells whatsoever at this point in time in their lives. You have to remember, these are the same characters that wrote The Cat in the Hat, so if that’s not reason enough to look at this movie with disdain, I don’t know what else you could possibly be smoking.