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Press - 2004
'Eurotrip' is one Filthy Guilty Pleasure
Jacob Pitts, Scott Mechlowicz, Michelle Trachtenberg and Travis Wester in
"Eurotrip."
It's hard to choose the most outrageous moment in "Eurotrip": a mechanical
monkey in an Amsterdam sex shop? Sexual high jinks at the Vatican? Or
David Hasselhoff singing in German?
This extremely raunchy comedy is kin to last year's "Old School." In other
words, it's deliberately offensive and loosely assembled, but it does have
some funny bits.
In the opening sequence, Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) finds himself dumped by
his girlfriend at his high school graduation. Turns out she's been
cheating on him with a rock singer -- played in cameo by Matt Damon, who
performs a taunting little number called "Scotty Don't Know." Talk about
rubbing it in.
Scotty and his best bud (Jacob Pitts) drown their sorrows by traveling to
Europe. Scotty has this idea he'll track down a pen pal in Berlin, a
beautiful girl he inadvertently insulted.
After getting sidetracked by soccer hooligans in London, the guys meet up
with two vacationing friends in Paris, very dissimilar twins (Michelle
Trachtenberg, from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and Travis Wester).
This quartet weaves a woozy path toward Berlin, stopping off for the sex
and drugs in Amsterdam, a nude beach populated solely by out-of-shape men,
and a wild night of drinking absinthe in Bratislava.
Then they go to the Vatican. Some of the protesters already questioning
the legitimacy of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" might want to
take a look at this movie too, which includes a sequence of raw sex in a
Vatican confessional and the startling spectacle of Scotty impersonating
the pope. On second thought, maybe they shouldn't look at this movie.
I won't spend too much effort defending "Eurotrip," which richly merits
its R rating (and should be off the list of movies you'd want to get your
teenage kids into at the multiplex). It is one raunchy flick.
But dang it, some of it was funny. Compared to the supposed good taste of
"Welcome to Mooseport," this movie is a riot.
The cast is appealing, which isn't always the case in gross-out comedies,
with Scott Mechlowicz a low-key lead in the vein of a young Tom Hanks
(though he slurs his words like Brad Pitt). Jacob Pitts is a very engaging
wiseguy sidekick, and has the best lines in the script.
"Eurotrip" also has a mime fight outside the Louvre. So this film truly
has something to offend everybody ... even the silent acrobats among us.
You have been warned.
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