EuroTrip (2004)
Directed by Jeff Schaffer
When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
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With the exception of Trachtenberg, who became a child star with the 1996 Nickelodeon comedy Harriet the Spy and was later a recurring character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they were all picked from relative obscurity to appear in the film.
Most of the rejected names were lazy riffs on recent teen hits (40 Days Abroad, What a Frau Wants) as was the title they eventually plumped for, a simple play on 2000’s Road Trip that might imply a connection without explicitly stating it, just as Boat Trip had done two years earlier.
Existing in a void where Road Trip and Old School are the virtual Adam and Eve of movie creation, EuroTrip represents the latest pestilence from DreamWorks’s subterranean id-grinder.
Despite the fact that the posters proclaim Eurotrip to be “From the people who brought you Road Trip”, it isn’t, strictly speaking, a sequel – the ‘people’ in question are the producers rather than the stars or the director or writers.
(The incestuous twins footnote makes me think that perhaps EuroTrip‘s only purpose in this world is as a primer for Bernardo Bertolucci’s enticing The Dreamers .)
"Eurotrip" doesn't tug at the heartstrings like "There's Something About Mary," nor does it have a big comic hook (read: hair gel), but it does have several ambitious set pieces, including Vinnie Jones' fiery binge as a soccer hooligan and Scott's slow-motion, kung-fu battle with a French street mime.