Eurotrip Reviews

Warning: This raunchy teen comedy features incest jokes, desecration of religious items, underage drinking, drug use, anal probes, male full-frontal nudity, half-naked women and stereotypical potshots at just about every European nationality. If you're not offended by any of these things, then you're in for a treat: Despite (or perhaps because of) the film's relentless lowbrow sensibility, it's surprisingly funny. Frequently disgusting and infantile, but entertaining nonetheless. Newly minted high-school graduate Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) intends to spend the summer before college working at his dad's Ohio office and hanging out with his girlfriend, Fiona (Kristen Kreuk, of TV's Smallville). But two-timing Fiona dumps him and, following a drunken graduation party, Scotty ruins his long-term friendship with German pen pal Mike because Mike makes a pass at him. After coming to his senses the next day, he discovers that Mieke is actually a hot German chick, and tries to make belated amends. But Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) has already blocked his e-mails, so there's only one thing to do: Scotty and his best pal, Cooper (Jacob Pitts), hop the next flight to Europe to seek out Mieke in person. The less-than-brilliant duo end up in London, and while killing time until the next bus to Germany, they decide to take advantage of the country's non-existent drinking age. They quickly find themselves thoroughly wasted in a bar filled with soccer hooligans, and come to halfway to a Manchester United match in Paris. Coincidentally, their pals, fraternal twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester), are also in the City of Light and join Scotty and Cooper's big adventure. En route to Germany, the four friends try to take advantage of everything Europe has to offer, including nude beaches, hallucination-inducing absinthe and the decadent delights for which Amsterdam is notorious. A bit of the dumb American humor of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACTION combined with the perverse frat-boy appeal of ROAD TRIP and AMERICAN PIE make for an outrageous romp that will appeal to fans of lowbrow yucks. Scene-stealing cameos by Matt Damon and Lucy Lawless and the very catchy pop song that becomes a leitmotif for Scotty's pain are among its less-raunchy (comparatively speaking) highlights.