Eurotrip is a 2004 American comedy movie with
some nudity and sexual content in it.
The plot is about a guy named Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) who meets a person online who seems to have
developed a love for him. At first Scott thinks that this person from Germany, by the name of Mieke, is a male, but he soon finds out she is really a female. He
had previously told her never to speak to him again, calling her "yu sick German freak", when she asked if they could go on a
date before he found out she was male. He sets out to travel to Germany to meet her. He travels to Europe with his best friend and meets up with two of their other friends.
Along the road to Germany they have many adventures.
Tagline: No Actual Europeans Were Harmed in the Making of This Film
Humour
The movie shows several stereotypes of Europeans:
- Eastern Europeans
are regarded as poor (shown by the fact that the actors can afford a luxury hotel with 19$), living in the worst place of Europe
(shown by Scott's line when learning they're in Bratislava, Slovakia: "Oh my God, we're in Eastern Europe!") and cut off from the outside world (expressed by the dialogue when Scott asks "Is there a
train to Berlin?" and a Slovakian replies: "Yes, I'm working on it"). Slovakians are also shown to allow the use of absynth, showing tolerance to the problem of
drug consumption
- Dutch are seen as tolerant.
This is spoofed by showing apparently a bar in which a Jamaican (named
"Rastafarian" by Scott) serves Scott and Jenny what appears to be drugs, but then turns out
to be selfmade cakes (Rastafarians also practice drug consumption). Amsterdam is
shown as a "everything goes" capital, including an "xxx" club openly advertised (attended by Donny. The apparent female owner of
the club is a joke on Austin Powers).
- British are shown as
fanatic football fans (shown by the encounter between Scott, Jamie and some Manchester United fans) which regularly curse in normal conversation and really hate the French (shown when the
fans drive on the left side of the road in Paris, all the while cursing the French
motorists, and beating up a Frenchman for wearing a football t-shirt supporting the French team).
- French are presented as boring (the long line in front of the Louvre Museum as a metaphor to this)
and who hate speaking English (when Scott and the robot pick a fight, the robot
speaks French).
- Vatican residents are shown to believe anything, when Scott accidentaly lets
smoke out of a chimney which traditionally indicate the Pope's death, and when he rings a
bell indicating the election of a new Pope only five minutes later. At this point in the
movie Donny openly claims to be Catholic.
Main characters
- Scott: the character name is obviously a joke on Austin Powers, where Dr. Evil's son was also called "Scott" or
"Scotty", in a joke on Star Trek. He is shown as a boring person (his girlfriend
breaks up with him claiming he was "too predictable") who regularly drinks when depressed but waking up with a hangover says "I'm
never drinking again". A central gag of the movie is his naivety, lack of knowledge about basic facts of the journey (relying on
Jamie) and the fact that he speaks bad German (when talking to the truck driver he actually said: "Mein Deutsch schlecht,
sprachen langesam verstanden?" which literally means "My German bad, speak language understand?"). He is also shown as making bad
decisions but not looking back, either because he was drunk (when his little brother Burt shows him Mieke is female) or he
forgot. He is widely shown as incompetent, especially when trying to get the German truck driver to get them to Berlin or
- Donny: is portrayed as a naive person,
Scott's friend, who just comes with him because he wants to "do it".
- Jamie: is first introduced as an intellectual, concentrating more on figuring out how to get to Germany or finding sights to visit on the way. He is mainly a secondary character: he is absorbed into Donny and
Scott's journey by his wish to see Europe. Later the producers let him have sexual relations whilst the others were "left out". In Amsterdam he tried to go with Donny to the "xxx" club, but Donny refused. In Bratislava, Donny and Scott find that he "did it" with Jenny (supposedly his sister) while taking Absynth, a kind of drug.
- The owner of the xxx club: is a parody of Austin Powers character
Ivana Humpalot in the first series.
Selected cast
External links
|
