Eurotrip, 2004

Watched it with reluctance in the beginning, for I did not really know the young cast so well, except for Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy), who played one of the twins, Jenny. Were suprised to see Lucy Lawless and Matt Damon in it, and thought the movie must have something good in it!

Plot summary: Being dumped by his girlfriend Fiona on his graduation day (high school), Scott was very upset, especially when he was humiliated in public (in front of his school friends), about Fiona's unfaithfulness. Soon after that, Scott thought the German penpal whom he was really fond of, was trying to make a pass at him as a homosexual, Scott angrily told the person off, and declined to see Mieke if/when that person ever came to US.

Realised too late that Mieke was a girl, not a boy, Scott did his best to travel to Berlin to apologise to her in person (since his insulting email made Mieke too angry, that she blocked his contact from her afterwards!). Being a very unadventurous type, Scott's decision to travel was not really his, but because he was provoked into doing it by one of his cheesy sloppy friend, Cooper.

Not only the trip to Europe was hilarious, but right from the beginning of the movie, it was already full of scenes &/or dialogues that aimed to make people laugh.

Perhaps the movie aimed to laugh at and with the young school leavers, most of whom was very curious about sex, fun, and the human anatomy of the opposite sex. While Scott was always straightlace, stiff in his principle, his co-traveller Cooper always managed to take him into new troubles. To get out of a certain situation, Scott and Cooper contacted the twins, Jenny and Jamie, who were also traveling in Europe at the time, to help Scott get to Berlin to see his Mieke.

Begin another series of hilarious events, with the "foursome" in all sort of problems while they were in Europe: the long queuing to see the famous scenes of Europe, how Scott teased a "mime" robot while he was sick of queuing, and how he got into robot fights with the guy; the funny scenes in which the group was stalked by a pervert (guess it was the same "mime" robot guy while they were on the expressed train); how cheesy and sex mad Cooper got into trouble when he thought he was in a sex heaven (Lucy Lawless was very different to Xena while playing the Madam in this movie); how vague and childlike Jamie got his first lession in sex, resulted in losing his and his group's money and important papers while Jenny and Scott innocently ate some cakes they shouldn't have; how the group hitchhiking with a drunk and got nowhere but more trouble ahead; how the group ended in East Berlin and with US$1.28 cents (roughly), they got pampered like kings and queen there, and were served strange alcohols, etc.

The laugh at Europe did not end there: the group went to Vatican, not because they were religious or anything, but only to help Scott get to his Mieke before she joined a certain travelling trip to somewhere "unreproachable". In ignorance, cheesy Cooper rang the bell which often used only to announce the death of the current Pope of Vaticant. Within seconds of that, also by accident, Cooper threw a burnt "bishop" hat into the fireplace, producing the smoke into a special chimney, annoucing another news, "a new pope has been elected successfully"... Last but not least, Scott happened to see his adorable Mieke (through the window) with the crowd right there, and he rushed to the balcony to call out her name, without realising that by a series of accidents, he had gowned himself in gold curtain robe, pope hat, still holding to the "shepherd" stick of the pope, and was right at the balcony where the new pope always stood to greet the crowd...


Interesting to see Matt Damon appeared in this movie, (after seeing him played roles that so serious in thrillers like: Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, etc) though briefly as a spunk singer (I did not really recognise him, until I saw his name in the cast!).

Finished the movie, though still amuse with it, I wondered how the European really think about it (especially the scene in which a crazy English football team chased after a French guy on the street!). Hope they don't get too upset with Hollywood for making this silly and very entertaining movie. Worth the 90 minutes or so it lasts!


Filming locations which involved Prague, Czech:

- Paris Railway station scene, was actually Hlavni Railway Station, Prague, Czech Republic
- the scene in which a crazy English football team chased the French guy in front of Grand Hotel Bohemia, was Kralodvorska 4, Praha 1, Prague, Czech Republic
- the National Museum of Prague
- etc.

(wrote this review for my friend, about a month ago!)