EuroTrip

Plot synopsis:
The film begins in Hudson, Ohio, where Scott "Scotty" Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz) gets dumped by his girlfriend, Fiona (Kristin Kreuk), immediately after his high school graduation in 2004. With his best friend, Cooper Harris (Jacob Pitts), Scott attends a graduation party that evening and listens to a performance of the film's main theme song "Scotty Doesn't Know", which crudely details the affair Fiona was having with the band's singer, Donny (Matt Damon), while she was with Scott. Drunk and angry, Scott returns home and receives an e-mail reply from his German pen pal, Mieke (Jessica Boehrs), who expresses sympathy towards Scott after Fiona breaks up with him, and suggests they arrange to meet in person. However, the entire time Scott has known her, he has mispronounced Mieke as "Mike", thinking that she is male. After Cooper suggests that "Mike" may be a sexual predator, Scott angrily tells Mieke to stay away from him. Scott's younger brother, Bert (Nial Iskhakov), informs him that "Mieke" is a common girl's name among Germans. Realizing his mistake, and that he has feelings for Mieke, Scott tries desperately to contact her again, only to find out that Mieke has blocked his email address. Encouraged by Cooper and with him in tow, Scott decides to travel to Europe, seek out Mieke, and apologize to her face-to-face.
Scott and Cooper first travel as couriers to London, where they end up befriending the members of a Manchester United football hooligan firm, led by Mad Maynard (Vinnie Jones). After a wild night of drinking, Scott and Cooper wake up on a AEC Routemaster double-decker bus on their way to Paris for a Manchester United game. Once in Paris, they meet up with fraternal twins and fellow high school classmates, Jenny and Jamie (Michelle Trachtenberg and Travis Wester), who are also touring Europe together. Jenny and Jamie decide to accompany Scott and Cooper to find Mieke in Berlin and along the way plan to visit other parts of Europe together, since this will be the last summer the four of them will spend as a group before going off to college. The group travel by train to Amsterdam, where Jamie is robbed while engaging in oral sex with a beautiful camera salesgirl. As Jamie had everyone's money, passports, and train tickets with him, they have no choice but to hitchhike to Berlin. Scott asks a German truck driver to take them to Berlin to find Mieke. Scott's German is poor and even though the driver mentions Berlin in his reply numerous times, the foursome fail to realize that he is trying to tell them that he is going nowhere near Berlin. The group ultimately end up in Bratislava, where they are horrified by the desolation of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War. Having realised that there is a great exchange rate for the U.S. dollar, they decide to have some fun and the group goes to a nightclub. Drunk on absinthe, Jenny and Jamie French-kiss and make out with each other, witnessed by Scotty and Cooper, and are horrified when they realize what they are doing. The next day, an American-obsessed Slovak man named Tibor (Rade Šerbedžija) finally drives them to Berlin. Scott and Cooper soon find out that Mieke has gone with a tour group for the summer and will likely be reachable in Rome for only a short time. In order to afford plane tickets to Rome to search for Mieke, Jamie sells his precious Leica M7 camera.
In Rome, the four friends head to the Vatican City, where Mieke is touring before leaving for her summer at sea. To gain access, they pretend to be a tour group, with Jamie acting as their guide; another group has lost their guide and joins, allowing Scott and Cooper to search for Mieke. Inside the Vatican, Scott and Cooper accidentally signal the death of the pope and the election of a new pope. Scott appears on a balcony in papal vestments, where he is taken to be the new pope and spots Mieke among the crowd below. While Scott is meeting up with Mieke, the Swiss Guards realize what is going on and detain Scott and Cooper in order to punish them for their actions. However, the Manchester United football supporters from London suddenly show up at the Vatican, and are just in time to release Scott and Cooper. Scott later finally introduces himself, and confesses his love for Mieke in person, with Mad Maynard giving some last-minute advice. Mieke is happy to see Scott, and after having passionate sex with him in one of the confessional booths, tells him to continue writing to her. Jamie is so convincing as a tour guide that he is hired by Arthur Frommer. On the flight back to Ohio, Jenny entices Cooper to have sex with her in one of the plane's lavatories, thus finally realizing his dream of crazy European sex. The film ends when Scott moves to Oberlin College in the fall. During a phone conversation with Cooper, who is now in a relationship with Jenny, an unexpected knock on Scott's dorm room door turns out to be Mieke, who explains that she is now his roommate because of another misunderstanding about her name. Scott and Mieke share their passionate embrace, as Cooper's voice continues to talk over the phone, demanding to know what is going on.

Tags: bleak, romantic, fantasy, comedy, stupid

Review:
Certainly not because it was from the people who gave us such gems as Road Trip or Old School, that's for sure, and it's not like I even recognized anyone in the cast (other than Michelle Trachtenberg, best known as Buffy's little sister Dawn).
I've seen movies with less provocation, I suppose.Eurotrip follows the adventures of four teens, Scott (Scott Mechlowitz), Cooper (Jacob Pitts), and twins Jamie (Travis Wester) and Jenny (Trachtenberg) as they backpack around Europe between high school graduation and beginning college.
But really the movie is an excuse to have fun with typical American Euro-stereotypes.Naturally the four fresh-faced kids get into all sorts of hijinks as they make their way through London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, and so on.
Not only is there clever verbal play and uproarious sight gags (the arrival at Bratislava was so funny I almost fell out of my seat laughing), but the writers were masters of the recurring gag - the best of which is a song about Scott's breakup with Fiona (it makes sense in the film) constantly popping up as they travel throughout Europe.
Eurotrip uses almost every single cliché or stereotype regarding Europe & exaggerates it enormously in an unbelievably funny way.Surprisingly the acting, which is done mainly by unknown actors & actresses, is very good.
Some satirical aspects also take place in the movie: especially funny was the scene, when the characters arrive to a club in Slovakia & hear a techno remix of a song 'Scotty Doesn't Know'.
Never-the-less the jokes are hilarious and the plot flows rather smoothly.Some people probably hate this movie because of the way it portrays Europeans.
Matt Damon turns up somewhat unexpectedly in the USA and sings the catchy "Scotty doesn't know" song.All in all, this is a great comedy to watch with your friends, and even better in international company..
My new favorite song is "Scotty Doesn't Know!" And while this movie doesn't properly represent Europe and it's style and it's culture, it does enlist every stereotype Americans have about Europeans, and that's what makes it so damn funny.
A nice guy (Scott Mechlowicz) who has just graduated high school goes on a trip to Europe to find the girl of his dreams, a Berliner named Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) and takes along his three best friends: a lazy ne'er-do-well looking for kinky sex like in European erotica (Jason Pitts), a girl looking for romance like in European novels (Michelle Trachtenberg) & a nerd looking for museums like in European travel brochures (Travis Wester).
And I must say, for as much sex and nudity as there is in this movie (and there's a whole lot of it), the biggest laugh I got was a PG-rated battle of the robot mimes in Paris, which may be the only scene in the movie that can be shown un-edited on TV.Although this may not be great art, or even great comedy, "Eurotrip" is a terribly crude, but awfully funny movie.
With a strong cast, plenty of well written gags and an overall cheesy script - EuroTrip is definitely a winner.If you enjoy this movie then also see RoadTrip, Old School and the American Pie series of films (certainly the first two anyway) 8/10 Great fun.
I just saw this at a second run theater and I found it to be very hilarious.Funniest movie since Road Trip in my opinion.Scotty's girl dumps him on graduation day, so he decides to find his internet friend in Europe, only to be taken for one heck of a ride.
Along for the ride with Scotty are his friend Cooper (who looks and sounds like David Spade) and twins Jenny and Jamie.The characters are likable, which really helps in this kind of movie.Some surprise cameos also pop up.I'll be adding adding this to my DVD collection for sure.***/****.
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).
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...
Unlike the typical movie goer, reviewers are acutely aware that films WHICH MAY SEEM UNREMARKABLE at the time of release can improve, like wine, with age.This film is possibly the best teen comedy of the era.That the cast is likable and works well together is a given.What makes Eurotrip stand out are "set pieces" which stick in your mind decades later.In my case, the ringing of the bell in the Vatican followed by the "white smoke" routine is unforgettable.
With three of his best friends, Scotty treks across Europe trying to find her, while meeting a lot of strange characters and getting into embarrassing situations that will do little to help American foreign relations.
I went into this expecting a film on par with Road Trip or Old School...nothing brilliant, just a solid hilarious movie littered with quotable lines and "remember-that-part-when...?" moments.
if u ve never been to Europe and think that Brits r all Hooligans , Deutsh are all weird sex addicts , Bratislava some remote communist burnt land, Italians very keen on physical contacts and Germans still look up to Hitler ( and my German friend was quite offended by that creepy scene ) then this movie is definitely for you...
They are the play-by-the-rules Scott (Scott Mechlowicz), the "I want crazy European sex" Cooper (Jacob Pitts), and twins "Let's go to the museum" Jamie (Travis Wester) and "one of the guys" (at least until she shows up in a bikini) Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg).Scott, accused by the girlfriend who dumps him of being predictable, predictably decides to be unpredictable and make an impulse trip to Germany to meet up with the pen pal he just realised was a girl and a bombshell into the bargain.
Well I saw Road trip or American pie and that were funny good movies.
This movie follows in the footsteps of films like American Pie. It aims for the young adult audience with a lot of sexual humor and nudity.
They meet up with the twins in Paris and all 4 travel together.Along the way, they run into a psycho soccer fan club in England, a creepy Italian on a train that just wants to rub on the guys, Vandersex club, Eastern Europe where a dollar and change buys them a 5 star hotel room, etc...Matt Damon had the best scene in a cameo in which he plays a singer at the high school graduation party.
That is what i can say about the writer or the director of this movie,i mean come on,if this is the way America see Europe is awful,finally what can i say is that from this movie i understand that Americans know Europe like some little store and what's this opinion that if we say Hasselhoff we say Germany because he and Hitler represent Germany.I give two for this movie because it still has something from a nice comedy,but Bratislava sequence was such a bad joke that i can hardly forget it.And please,if A Manchester Utd fan-club is locate in London,land of Arsenal and Chelsea,i eat my hat..
Going into the theater's to see this re-hashed teen movie, I can't say I was expecting much, but even with that sort of attitude I was sorely let down.Yet again, this is one of those 'hey, lets go somewhere far away so you can win the girl over' stories, and it is a pathetically unfunny one at that.Forget about originality or even clever humour, this one is just poor joke after poor joke, relating to everything from race and nationality, to the support of European soccer teams.There is not much character development of any real story apart from the usual travel vehicle.
Eurotrip is a free wheeling loose comedy with shades of American Pie and Road Trip to keep horny teenagers happy.Scott (Scott Mechlowitz) is dumped by his girlfriend on his graduation day who has been cheating on him with a singer in rock band (cameo by Matt Damon).
Of course they never get to Berlin first, in order to save costs and mistakenly thinking Europe is small they start their trip in London, going to Paris, Amsterdam and Bratislava before ending up in Berlin.As they travel to Europe they meet football hooligans, end up in a brothel, go to a nude beach, end up taking dodgy brownies in an Amsterdam café and meet some strange people especially a weirdo on a train.It is crude humour with plenty of strong language with male and female nudity.
Determined not to be predictable and miss out again, Scott joins friends Cooper, Jenny and Jamie on a trip across Europe to try and get to Berlin and, by extension, into Mieke.I didn't expect anything from this film and maybe that helped because from the start the basic silliness of the comedy got me in the mood for this nonsense.
it is actually very good.Basically it takes the idea of cliché and gives it a new twist and not the satire type either, a proper real funny way of showing how Americans see Europe.
Deliberately made as a teenage gross-out movie, Eurotrip follows the misadventures of a young American who travels to Europe with some friends in order to salvage his relationship with a German pen-pal whom he had told off in a state of drunken, post-graduation stupor.From Britain to France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany and Italy, we are treated to 91 minutes of what can only be described as "Ugly Americans" romping through a stereotypical version of Europe.
Michelle Trachtenberg was the worst part of the "Buffy" TV show and she fares a bit better here but not by much.DVD Extras: Filmmaker's Commentary; 'Party Along' commentary; a 5-minute Gag reel; 13 Deleted scenes with optional commentary (the Hapi Djus one features more nudity); Alternate Ending with optional commentary; Nude scene index; Unrated scene index; Nude beach exposed (WAY too much naked guy ass and penis, i'll NEVER watch that extra again EVER); how to pick a director; Bootleg; 'Scotty Doesn't Know' music video and sing-along; Ad for soundtrack; Script; photo gallery; production notes; cast and crew Bios; and Trailers for "Anchorman", "Along came Polly", "Envy", "Pitch Black" 1 Easter Egg: go to the Production Notes and highlight the no camera icon for some behind the scene pics Eye Candy: Tereza Brettschweiderova, Jessica Bohrs, Edita Deveroux; Molly Shade, Kristyna Simova, and Petra Tormankova all only get topless My Grade: C-.
This movie had some really good laughs in it, it was just as funny as Old School or Road Trip.
The humour is raunchy and irreverent, but the running gags (especially the musical tribute "Scotty Doesn't Know") are equal opportunity and poke fun at the main characters, European and American cultural stereotypes and coming of age films in general.
But don't worry guys, there are plenty of attractive ladies in various states of undress for you, too (unfortunately, Michelle Trachtenberg and Kristen Kreuk aren't among them :)The film sneaks in several great cameos, most notably; Lucy Lawless fulfilling every Xena-dweeb's fantasy as a Vinyl-clad Dominatrix, and Matt Damon as a tattooed, shaved and pierced-up, cuckolding punk-rocker.Speaking of rock, the soundtrack goes a long way to keeping this movie going at a great pitch, mixing rock, punk covers of 80's hits, great euro-indie stuff, and yes - David Hasselhoff crooning away for your listening pleasure!Bondage, boobs and brownies - this movie has a little something for everyone - I'd recommend it..
Yes, there are few funny scenes like Italian guy from the train, nudist beach, Absinthe (poor Americans don't know what they're missing:D) or Amsterdam scenes but the whole movie losses good grade when our group arrives in Italy.
For example Bratislava; anyone who ever visited that city knows that scenes from this movie are ridiculous; I mean here Bratislava looks like the army passed few minutes ago (or our main characters staying in great hotel with 2 dollars; yeah right!!).
first of all, this film is total crap, it doesn't use stereotypes in a funny way, it is just stunning that someone has given money for that movie to be made.
this is clearly a movie for spotty American teenagers under 15 (the traditional gratuitous breast-shots)i hate this movie, not because it makes fun of europeans and that i'm one of these strange people, but because it is merely not funny at all, especially the scene with the German boy.
A good teenage sex movie with a lot of humor and languages At first i was disappointed that Scott and Mike finally met and just had a quick **** but at last she came to America and went to a collage so it was a better end as i thought at the beginning:-P I put it in my DVD collection and of course originally in English and not in German :-P bye bye :-*.
It is not funny at all - the only thing you can see is how stupid US-Americans (or the author of the script, or the producers, or however) are.The film tries to be a softcore comedy but there is no real sex and no real joke inside.I only watched the film, because he is made by the producers of "Old School" and "Road Trip" - these films are rather good, but this one is not.BTW: The name of the girl, "Mike", is not a German name of a girl (and there are various other mistakes)..
They meet up with their friends Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester), twins traveling Europe and the four go off on a wild trek to get laid, experience Europe and find Mieke.There are a lot of bad jokes throughout the film and overall, the story is pretty predictable.
The soccer hooligans are funny, there's a perverted Italian that gets in a couple of laughs, the previously mentioned song "Scotty Doesn't Know" is nearly a reason to see the movie in itself.
This might not be very famous among the teens, but from my experience this is definitely one of the most funny teen movie i have ever comes across (and i have seen almost every teen movies).Synopsis: After the misunderstanding with his German pen-pal (as he thought "she" is a "he"), Scott and his womanizer best friend decided to go to Europe to pursuit her after he found out she is a gorgeous and probably the girl of his dream.This movie definitely got almost all the thing needed to make the good teen movie.Brilliant soundtrack and original song, good casts great situation and co-incident and lots of scene of naked men and women.
I really enjoyed the movie it made me laugh at the sex scene between scott and the German girl.....
That said, if you have no problem with an absurd plot full of amplified cultural stereotypes and sexual humor, this movie will make you laugh until it hurts.Eurotrip follows four friends across London (home of the football hooligans), Paris (home of snobby, condescending waiters who rip off tourists), Bratislava (where a dollar and some change is enough to live like Paris Hilton), Germany (home of hot girls with little brothers who like to imitate Hitler), and Italy, (where sleazy men try to feel up anything with legs).
Even though this movie would fit into the same category as American pie, it is much more appealing than any of its so called "peers".Using stereotypes, this comedy uses the well-established prejudice of different European countries - and cleverly (in my opinion) makes funny jokes about it.
That said, for the rest of you more liberal minded folk, this could be a great funny movie for you.Most of the gags do play on American stereotypes of European peoples, but remember that that was the point.
Some ppl mite criticize this movie, but if you're looking for a good time it's a great movie to see.It's a basic hilarious teen movie, but they include europe in it.I really liked the movie.I was expecting it to suck, but once i saw it i really enjoyed it.
A film like "Euro Trip" is in the vein of the one year earlier "American Wedding", one of the last good comedies.