EuroTrip

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If you can get over the superficial insight of Europe that the director offers us, this is an exceptional movie. However it is too difficult to do so. This movie shows just how narrow minded some people are, showing just stereotypes that the whole world is sick of. I have browsed over the "goofs" taken out from this movie and I was surprised at first. But on the second thought this is what this movie is all about... Errors. Too many errors regarding European geography, too many errors regarding the European history. American screenplay writers and directors would do better if they took some minimal classes before the shoot any movie... Shame, shame, shame !!!

Seriously - THE worst film I have ever seen. And I've seen Gigli. And Jaws 3D. Hell, Space Camp is one of my favourite films, but this?!? NONE of the jokes are funny, it's racist, xenophobic and stereotypical. It's poorly shot, casted, directed and produced. Not even slightly believable, and just plain NOT funny. Notice how everyone who likes this film is American? That's because this film totally conforms to outdated American stereotypes of what Europe is like. I doubt the script writers have ever been outside the mainland US. There are plot holes and location errors all over the place, perhaps if any of the lines or characters were vaguely humorous you could ignore this. But they're not. Nothing is funny about this film. Not even how bad it is. Send it to the bottom 100!

Cliché, stereotypes, offensive humor, failed tries on parody, simple disgusting... Kind of strange humor when parodying European towns and people, especially Bratislava? Perhaps "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas brings a "true picture" of the New York city, but it's much better in drift and action then this disposable piece... Very poor action, the jokes are often over the top, shows Europe as a land of sex, lascivious and larcenous indulgence. They say, the most worth watching might be * beach exposed scenes, and other parts cut from original copy, could be found in DVD extra section...

Who in his right mind is going to laugh at this film? It's not about Europe, it's about Americans' prejudices about a continent they apparently know nothing about - at least the filmmakers didn't seem to be able to make a serious (or rather - as might have been their intention - funny) film about stereotypes. It could be done differently. This movie just shows that there are people who are not able to leave puberty behind. Well, if you think, England's inhabited by skinhead-hooligans only, in France everyone's just waiting for some retarded, immature American schoolboys to teach them to laugh, if you further believe every Italian is a gay mafioso, there's still something like the Hitler Youth in Germany and literally every European girl is fired up about the idea of f***ing American idiots like the above mentioned - just enjoy the film! You will learn nothing about Europe at all, but you might learn about your sexist, racist sense of humour.

Well I saw Road trip or American pie and that were funny good movies. Not like this one. Where one of the most beautiful European cities (Bratislava) looks like Cecenia or Bosnia, even if there haven't be any war going on since ww2... Full of prejudice (that British are only huligans and Italians act like that). Also 90% of the things are put on the wrong spots (on the so-called-map). Anyone who was at least one time in Europe knows that this movie is full of lies and nonsense! Oh and for those who think that this is how Europe looks like, you'll be disappointed if you ever decide for a REAL eurotrip! I don't like the script, i don't like the actors, I think this is one of the worst movies in the century!

"Eurotrip" isn't really in the same league as the crass but hilarious "Road Trip" (also from DreamWorks Pictures and the Montecito Picture Company), though it shares the same mindset and basic premise of a guy trekking with his friends to sort out a misunderstanding with a lady. Unlike that movie, however, it doesn't have enough momentum to sustain itself all the way; it goes in stops and starts, with moments of real hilarity (like the robot mime duel in France set to "Two Tribes") between bits of the filmic equivalent of dead air. The movie also has the strikes against it of coming from the writers of the excruciating "The Cat in the Hat," and of having a lead whose name keeps slipping my mind (and in fact the only one of the four principals who is immediately memorable is Michelle Trachtenberg). But this time Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer have a milieu that can take the crudity, and they're to be thanked for not having too many body function jokes (in a choice between flatulence gags and topless blondes with big breasts, the latter gets my vote every time). The heroes's journey through Europe brings up every single stereotype - football hooligans in England, sexually-uninhibited Dutch (shout-out to Lucy Lawless as a dominatrix in Amsterdam), way-behind-the-times Eastern Europeans ("'Miami Vice' number one show!"), sexually predatory Italians ("Mi scusi...") - but they paint the US characters in such similar broad strokes ("Europe's the size of Westwood Mall") that most people won't take offence. And that's quite an accomplishment for a movie which has a little German boy playing at being Adolf Hitler... It's occasionally even stupider than it has to be, and the big climax in the Vatican (don't ask) could have been better handled, but the supporting cast and the cameos make up for the bland leading man, and it has enough laughs and enough fetching ladies (especially Molly Schade as the girl in the Jacuzzi at the party ["Is it off now?" "Keep rubbing it"] and Jessica Boehrs as the German penfriend who kicks off the plot) to make it a pleasant enough time-passer... although Joanna Lumley's cameo during the outtakes in the credits is an understandable omission from the main body of the film. Two points to finish off: Jones tells a Vatican employee that he hates the Swiss, a surprisingly prescient remark from an English football fan (United International Pictures released "Eurotrip" in the UK around the time England were knocked out of the European Championships, for which a lot of people blamed the referee... who was Swiss); and Michelle Trachtenberg is not only getting more attractive as she gets older but can also - metaphorically and literally - look down on Sarah Michelle Gellar. Face it, she wasn't the one in "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed."

To call this "Sophmoric" would be to over-rate it. This film attempted to rise to the level of Animal House, Caddyshack, or American Pie. It failed. By the end of the movie, I was angry, not amused. I was angry because I had just spent money that would have been better used as kindling for a fire. The film is a dis-jointed flop across Europe. The jokes are contrived, the nudity is obviously intended to keep the attention of the guys. The shock comedy is offensive, but not funny. The sex scene in the Vatican was the last load in a very large pile of crap. Save yourself and your money. For a more enjoyable time, have a root canal. For a better use of your money, shred it or burn it. Better yet, send it to me, C/O the Red Cross.

Words fail me. If this is supposed to indicate how typical Americans see Europe, and maybe vice-versa, then god help us all. What's sad is that a great many Americans really don't know any different, so they think this film is hilarious. Amazingly, some Europeans seem to have found it amusing also. The rules have changed; penises can now be shown on-screen. Oh, goody, let's show hundreds of them. While we're at it, we'll dig out the encyclopedia of cliché and use every one of them at least once. We'll make all Europeans look like dolts and we'll put on a wild, sumptuous party for $US1.87. Anybody who's tried to find anything in Europe that only costs $1 can tell you how accurate that is. And how about selling an obsolete Leica rangefinder camera for enough to buy 4 air tickets back home. Wow. Then we'll polish it off by tastelessly ridiculing the catholic church and we'll have a guaranteed box-office smash. I don't think so. I'm afraid this is one of the worst movies I've seen for quite some time. Not even so bad it's good, just so bad.