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Raunchy ‘Euro Trip’ in looking for e-love
By Harinda Vidanage
A low budget comic hit has taken the movie goers by storm while cinema critics began rating film ‘Euro Trip’ as the best comedy to come this year. The creators of this movie are the people who created Road Trip which was immensely successful in the cine world. As more and more movies are created on the lines of American pie the more they seem to be popular and demand for these cult treats is on the up.

Director and writer of Euro Trip Jeff Schaffer along with Alec Berg Producer and writer with David Mandel most recently scripted the big-screen adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat,” starring Mike Myers, Kelly Preston and Alec Baldwin. The trio has been writing together since attending Harvard University, where they were all editors of The Harvard Lampoon. Segueing to television, their first project was “MTV, Give Me Back My Life!” for Comedy Central. Following that, Berg and Schaffer worked at “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” and Mandel at “Saturday Night Live.” They all reunited to work on the hit series “Seinfeld,” on which they served as executive producers as well as writers.

The big question and the movie line of Euro Trip is, have you ever pressed “Send” on an email and immediately wished you could get it back? Scotty Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz) and his Berlin-based computer pen pal Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) have been writing each other for years, sharing every detail of their lives. When Mieke makes a cyber overture at Scotty, he completely freaks out, thinking that this guy he’s known for years is coming on to him too bad and the one detail Scotty doesn’t seem to know is that, in Germany, Mieke is a girl’s name.

For these two trans-Atlantic cyber pen pals, whose language barrier leads to a misunderstanding. American teenager Scotty, after years of exchanging emails with his German pen pal Mieke, is still under the mistaken notion that Mieke is a guy. The revelation that Mieke is a girl coming on the heels of Scottys being dumped by his girlfriend, sends him across the Atlantic to find and finally meet Mieke.

By the time Scotty figures out that Mieke is a girl, and a hot one at that, Mieke has cut off her email account and all contact with him. Thinking that this might be his one chance at true love even though he’s never actually met the girl. Scotty and his best friends, Cooper (Jacob Pitts) and the twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester), embark on a raucous trip across Europe headed for Berlin. Like many teen comedies, ‘Euro Trip’ is about the pursuit of sex by those with little experience in the carnal carnival. Through out their various escapades including a visit to a nude beach and a brothel, the pals encounter a veritable sea of European flesh.

The filmmakers were thrilled to work with the stars, which they call “dream casting.” Schaffer expounds, “Vinnie Jones was the one person we all had in our heads when we wrote the part of Mad Maynard, the head soccer hooligan.

When we found out he was actually going to do it, we were over the moon. When he showed up, he was so much better than we could have ever imagined. And we all agreed that Lucy Lawless was simply the coolest human being we ever met.”

So buckle up for the ride as these teenagers take a trip of their lives through out whole of Europe in pursuit of the cyber love. The movie has elements of special effects especially when European land marks are created in a specific location using the CGI technology which many movie makers depend on now days. Fans of comedy its time to take another trip and teens who like these wild outings this is a treat.

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