Eurotrip (2004)
Tired of watching the Gulf War II
and violence on television? Upset that your kids missed
Janet Jackson's breast at the Superbowl? Even more
upset that you and the kids had to watch it blurred
out over and over when the media covered the non-
event for days and days afterwards? Super pissed off
that hypocritical America became ultra-conservative
after this and even MTV pulled some videos? Then why
not take the whole family to see "Eurotrip," the funniest,
sexiest, most outrageous comedy to hit megaplexes
in a long time. You will howl with laughter and so
will you kids.
Don't be fooled. This isn't a gross-out
comedy. There isn't a single fart or shit joke in
the film and the only pee joke comes in a hilarious
outtake during the end credits.
"Eurotrip" is a smart and funny
sex comedy that lampoons post-millennium, post-Internet
sexuality with a college-aged sensibility that never
fails to evoke laughter. There are jokes about dildos,
bondage, anal sex, nude beaches, molestation, oral
sex, incest, and lots and lots of gay jokes. But these
are all really, really funny and none of them truly
offend. There's even jokes about drinking, drugs and
Absinthe to give the humor a more broad appeal. This
is funny, funny stuff. I was howling. And I have even
mentioned how the absurdity of Catholicism is lampooned.
And there's also a funny and somewhat smart bit about
Eastern Block countries.
There's lots of partial nudity and
lots of hot college aged kids in the film. The four
main characters are sexy enough to get the testosterone
and the estrogen of everyone from 14-80 rolling like
a avalanche.
You think I'm being sarcastic don't
you? Nope. I'm serious. This is a damn funny film.
And in a Post-Superbowl 2004, hypocritical, ridiculous,
conservative, repulsive America, I can only hope that
more and more R-rated films like "Eurotrip" get made
and that more and more teenagers and perverted old
men like myself get to enjoy them at megaplexes and
on DVD.
After all, if we weren't so insistent
as a society that sexuality - of any kind - remain
a taboo, films like this wouldn't be funny at all
now would they?
Notes:
Also with Diedrich Bader and Matt
Damon in cameo roles. Damon steals the movie in the
set-up of what becomes the film's hilarious running
gag. Joanna Lumley appears in some hilarious outtakes
during the end credits. Also Jeffrey Tambor, Michelle
Trachtenberg, Lucy Lawless, and Vinnie Jones.
Directed by Jeff Schaffer, his debut.
Schaffer is best known as a writer for TV's "Seinfeld."
The song "Scotty Doesn't Know" by
Lustra is important to the film and the band appears
in one scene. The song "Morning Train" by Sheena Easton
is also used in the film effectively. Transitory segments
include several punk retro songs including "In the
City" by The Jam for London and C'est Plain Pour Moi"
by Plastic Bertran for Paris.
If you say the film out loud, your
realize that the title also sounds a bit like "You're
a trip." At one time the film was to be called "The
Ugly Americans."
Viewed in Austin in March 2004 with
my friend Christian.
