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This movie stands, for me, as the biggest surprise of the movie year so far.,
Please don’t take that to mean that this is a
comedy classic, it’s not, but it is a film that laughed in the face of my expectations for it. The rest of the films so far
have pretty much turned out as I expected – I expected
The Day After Tomorrow
to be nothing more than okay (and it was), I expected
Van Helsing
to suck even though I wanted it to be good (and Boy did it suck!) and I expected
Harry Potter
to kick ass (which it did most certainly). In much the same way I expected sitting
through Eurotrip to be painful, as the trailer
was disappointing to say the least, but in reality the film has turned out to be a guilty pleasure.
The plot (such as it is) revolves around Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) whose Graduation turns out to be the WORST. DAY. EVER. He
is dumped by his girlfriend Fiona (Smallville’s Lana Lang - Kristin Kreuk) who it turns out is the proverbial ‘Town Bike’,
he also receives a suggestive email from his German pen-pal Mike saying that he wants to come to America and ‘get to know
him better.’ Whilst drunk Scott sends a reply that, in no uncertain terms, informs Mike that he wants nothing more to do
with him.
The following day he is informed that Mike is not a guy but a rather stunning German girl called Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) who
has now blocked his e-mail address so he can’t apologise through that route. Scotty’s best friend Cooper (Jacob Pitts)
suggests that they should visit Europe and he can drop in and apologise in person, whilst there they can also hook up with
their friends Jenny and Jamie (Michelle Trachtenberg and Travis Wester) who are also doing the Europe thing. Thus a plan is
formed.
That’s the first 18 minutes of the film out of the way, and the rest follows them through the ups and downs as they attempt
to party, get laid, see some sights and get Scott to where he needs to be.
Right, let’s get this out of the way before we even start… A lot of people are going to see this because it’s a teen
sex-comedy featuring Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s sister Dawn). However, whilst she does wear some
tight and revealing clothes, anyone only watching this to see some of her intimate ‘Trachtenbits’ is going to go away
disappointed.
Okay… Anybody left? Onto the movie then…
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