European Pie
DreamWorks's latest juvenile comedy, Eurotrip, is another trashy teen picture, though it's not as bad as its predecessors are.
Credit goes to Jacob Pitts (whose look and style are similar to David Spade's) as horny best friend Cooper and Scott Mechlowicz as lovesick teenager Scotty. The pair's affability is a tonic to the raunchy script by those who butchered Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (and wrote for Seinfeld): Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaeffer. Schaeffer also directed Eurotrip.
The vacation begins after his girlfriend dumps Scotty on high school Graduation Day. Told he's too predictable, Scotty decides to take a trip to Europe without telling his parents, embarking on a voyage to meet his German e-mail mate, a blonde girl whose photograph turns him on. Scotty takes buddy Cooper along.
Their itinerary starts in London and extends to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome and the post-communist Slovakian city Bratislava. Eurotrip has its moments, such as Cooper's quest to have hedonistic sex in Holland, which turns into a sadomasochistic nightmare with Lucy Lawless (Xena).
Expect butt cheek close-ups and more boobs than a week's worth of porn spam. This isn't French Postcards or even Gidget Goes to Rome; there's no theme and few life lessons. Except for Eurotrip's most original scene—Scotty engages a Parisian mime, which bears no relation to his character or the plot—Berg, Mandel and Schaeffer become progressively more absurd as the European vacation unfolds.
Their idea of lampooning Germans with a little kid who imitates Hitler, which drew laughs from exactly two persons at a recent screening—a couple of male Baby Boomers.
Nazi-themed comedy paves the way for Eurotrip's Vatican humor. Without giving away the conclusion, Scotty's and Cooper's antics at the Pope's expense are mildly comical; the Vatican scenes mock values as such, not Catholicism.
Enlivened by Pitts and Mechlowicz, Eurotrip is another, less vulgar Ick Flick and it barely evokes Europe. Some jokes sound worse than they play, such as an incest scene, a lecherous homosexual, and gags about drugs, booze and being naked. Like the movie's flat Matt Damon cameo, one of several cameos, most of Eurotrip is merely a tame rehash of numerous Hollywood vulgarities and the result is neither totally depraved nor hilarious.
Credit goes to Jacob Pitts (whose look and style are similar to David Spade's) as horny best friend Cooper and Scott Mechlowicz as lovesick teenager Scotty. The pair's affability is a tonic to the raunchy script by those who butchered Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (and wrote for Seinfeld): Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaeffer. Schaeffer also directed Eurotrip.
The vacation begins after his girlfriend dumps Scotty on high school Graduation Day. Told he's too predictable, Scotty decides to take a trip to Europe without telling his parents, embarking on a voyage to meet his German e-mail mate, a blonde girl whose photograph turns him on. Scotty takes buddy Cooper along.
Their itinerary starts in London and extends to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome and the post-communist Slovakian city Bratislava. Eurotrip has its moments, such as Cooper's quest to have hedonistic sex in Holland, which turns into a sadomasochistic nightmare with Lucy Lawless (Xena).
Expect butt cheek close-ups and more boobs than a week's worth of porn spam. This isn't French Postcards or even Gidget Goes to Rome; there's no theme and few life lessons. Except for Eurotrip's most original scene—Scotty engages a Parisian mime, which bears no relation to his character or the plot—Berg, Mandel and Schaeffer become progressively more absurd as the European vacation unfolds.
Their idea of lampooning Germans with a little kid who imitates Hitler, which drew laughs from exactly two persons at a recent screening—a couple of male Baby Boomers.
Nazi-themed comedy paves the way for Eurotrip's Vatican humor. Without giving away the conclusion, Scotty's and Cooper's antics at the Pope's expense are mildly comical; the Vatican scenes mock values as such, not Catholicism.
Enlivened by Pitts and Mechlowicz, Eurotrip is another, less vulgar Ick Flick and it barely evokes Europe. Some jokes sound worse than they play, such as an incest scene, a lecherous homosexual, and gags about drugs, booze and being naked. Like the movie's flat Matt Damon cameo, one of several cameos, most of Eurotrip is merely a tame rehash of numerous Hollywood vulgarities and the result is neither totally depraved nor hilarious.
