Eurotrip
EuroTrip is a 2004 American comedy movie about a group of young Americans and their adventures traveling around Europe.
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Synopsis
The premise of the story is the online friendship between Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz), from the USA, and Mieke (Jessica Boehrs), from Germany. Scott thinks that his penpal is male, and when Mieke finds out that Scotty was dumped, she wants to arrange a meeting with Scotty in the United States, prompting Scotty to call 'him' a "sick German freak" and telling Mieke never to speak to him again. The next morning, his younger brother tells him that Mieke is a girl's name. He then sets out to travel to Germany to meet her, accompanied by his best friend, and meeting up with two of their other friends.
Travel sites
- Ohio, United States: Start of the movie, where Scotty is dumped by his girlfriend and attends his graduation party. He then realizes he must travel to Germany.
- London, United Kingdom: Since the courier manager only had a flight going to London, they took that bargain for $118, with Cooper thinking that Europe is "the size of the Eastwood Mall"
- Paris, France: After being accepted by a bunch of soccer hooligans, this is where they end up, with Scott and Cooper meeting up with their twin friends Jamie and Jenny.
- France's northern coast: The group takes a train ride up here, where they go to a naked beach. To their dismay, it is full of naked men like them looking for girls. After Jenny takes off her shirt, they get chased by naked men on a beach.
- Amsterdam, Netherlands: A must-needed stop along the way, where Cooper goes to the "Vandersexx" club and has one hell of a night. Scotty and Jenny go to a cafe and eat what they think are hash brownies and Jamie gets a blowjob from a girl in the camera store in an alley. Unfortunately, it is here where Jamie, who is in charge of all the money and identity, is robbed of everything and leaves the group with nothing.
- Bratislava, Slovakia: With no choice but to find a ride to Berlin, they manage to get a truck driver to pull over. Unfortunately, he does not speak English, and Scotty must use what little German he knows to understand him. He mishears him, thinks he is going to Berlin, but really is going "nowhere near Berlin". So they end up in Bratislava, where they are horrified by Eastern Europe. They talk to a Slovakian, and discover that there is no train coming, it is still being built. They only have $1.81 American, but due to the exchange rate, they get the executive suite at a lavish Slovakian hotel and for 33 cents, get into a nightclub and get lots of drinks, and the twins end up making out. The next morning, the same Slovakian shows up in his Soviet Bloc car painted like the General Lee, and he drives them to Berlin.
- Berlin, Germany: A friend that the group made takes them to Berlin, but only to find out that Mieke is gone. They realize she is in Rome on a tour group, and Jamie sells his precious Leica to earn enough money to fly to Rome.
- Vatican City: The final destination, Scotty and Cooper end up running through the Vatican, ringing the bell of Saint Marco as well as lighting up white smoke, which makes everyone think he will be the new pope. There he finds Mieke, and runs through many people and jumps down a rope to meet up with her. Although the swiss Vatican guards realized what was going on and attempted to stop them, the soccer hooligans from earlier in the movie come back and thwart their attempts.
Humor
Eurotrip's tagline was "no actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film", and it is perhaps most notable for its many stereotypes of various European countries and their people. Prominent among them are:
- Eastern Europe, which is portrayed as poverty-stricken (Bratislava is visited by the group)
- The Netherlands, which is portrayed as very tolerant of drugs and prostitution (Amsterdam is visited)
- British people, who are portrayed as football hooligans
- French people, who are protrayed as boring and stuffy (as shown by the long line at the Louvre and the mention of one at the Eiffel Tower
Inherent in the plot is the portrayal of the American protagonists as naïve or boorish.
Cast
- Scott Mechlowicz – Scott (Scotty) Thomas
- Jacob Pitts – Cooper Harris
- Michelle Trachtenberg – Jenny
- Travis Wester – Jamie
Ohio
- Kristin Kreuk – Fiona
- Nial Iskhakov – Bert Thomas (Scott's brother)
- Matt Damon – Donny
London
- Vinnie Jones – Mad Maynard (Hooligans' leader)
Paris
- J.P. Manoux – Robot Man
- Patrick Rapold – Christoph
- Fred Armisen – Creepy Italian Guy on Train
Amsterdam
- Lucy Lawless – Madame Vandersexxx
- Go Go Dyei Jen-Michel – Rasta Waiter
- Jana Pallaske – Anna the Camera Store Girl
Bratislava
- Dominic Raacke – Trucker
- Steve Hytner – Green Fairy
Berlin
- Walter Sittler – Mieke's father
- Adam Dotlacil – Heinrich
Vatican City
- Joel Kirby – Swiss Guard
- Jessica Boehrs – Mieke
- Patrick Malahide – Arthur Frommer
- Jack Marston – Pope John Paul II
External links
Categories: 2004 films | Comedy films | Teen films