This film, while being just another cookie cutter comedy had some good gags to it. There were little gags here and there that were good like the email greeting on Scotty's computer (mail, mothafucka!) which always managed to get a laugh from me, and the hash brownie incident in Europe with Scotty and Jenny at a Rastafarian bakery, plus there are a lot of cameos that I really liked and people will appreciate, like producer Matt Damon's cameo, and Vinnie Jones' bad ass cameo as a soccer hooligan which was pretty cool, Fred Armissan's cameo was especially hilarious despite the fact he's not. He may be the least talented of the SNL cast but he was hilarious as the "Creepy Italian guy".

You know, I'm not averse to comedies, I love comedies, and a lot of times I just want to laugh, so it's sad when really bad (but popular) comedies litter the big screen with their predictable slop and it makes me look like a prude. Well, "Eurotrip" is really no exception. How do you make a popular comedy these days? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Reduce the originality of its story and concept, reuse comedic actors that have more talent in a simple facial expression than any of the cast do here, and recycle jokes we've seen a thousand times in better comedies years before.

See? Three simple rules that "Eurotrip" adheres to almost as if the writers refuse to dabble in creating anything even remotely funny here. The producers of "Eurotrip" seem to want to market on the baffling popularity of the film "Road Trip" so we're given yet another road trip film, except this time it's intercontinental. Scotty's girlfriend has royally dogged him on graduation day and he's faced public humiliation during a party. Vulnerable, his pen pal Mike has volunteered to be his love, disgusted, Scotty rejects Mike, but when he finds out the pen pal is a girl, and a really hot girl, he decides to go to see her in Europe, and hilarity ensues.

That's always the tagline: hilarity ensues. Well, you know who Ben Stein is? The guy from Ferris Bueller! Well, if you can remember his face during that film, then now you know, without having seen me, what my face looked like the entire time while watching this hour and a half turd pile called a "movie". While the film did manage to invoke a chuckle now and again (I'm not made of stone), all the jokes in this embarrassing farce are like Starr Jones trying to back flip: they always fall flat. From weiner jokes, to typical foreigner jokes (Oh, I'm sorry, they're *supposed* to be stereotypes, excuuuse me! Right, I'm the prude, meanwhile I'm suffering through this bean turd), to sex jokes, right down to an eye roll inducing robot duel.

You read right. I mean, men acting like robots fighting each other in robotic movements? Did we just suddenly enter 1986? Not one joke brought me to tears except for when I was crying at how unfunny it was. From the beginning there are just a lot of clichés that really just didn't add up: the inept parents which become fodder for amusement, the sleazy best friend, the geeky friend, and a lot of wild characters, none of which were even the slightest of amusing. Right off, you can tell for what it's trying to go with by attempting to concoct a character from the parents, and boy what a poor waste of talent on Jefferey Tambor's part who is just in the film basically four times in very short sequences. What a horrible way of reflecting, or should I say, leech off of his talent and trying to make this a funny movie.

He's turned into a tool here, and I couldn't understand why they'd hire this hilarious actor only to reduce him to a mere four hardly memorable sequences. The writers just seem to be chasing their tail around on the story which is never sure if it's a comedy about a road trip, a romantic comedy, or a comedy about friendship. Either way, the product is very uneven and hardly ever becomes what I would consider comedy so most of the time is bordering over these different areas of the genre film with elements of different films hardly making what would be considered one whole product so in the end we're never sure if certain jokes are meant for laughter or just a smile, though most of which never invoked either from me.

So the writers, while bordering over these different areas, always seem to approach a
joke and a gag, but never seem to be going with what could reach a full joke potential, such as the hash brownie incident, and the green fairy liquor binge, two jokes that could have called for hilarious jokes, but the writers either never seem to want to push over the edge, or just don't know how. All the while we reach gag after gag that just falls flat including the kid goose stepping as a Nazi for no reason whatsoever, a lot of sexual fantasies that just aren't funny, and characters that are so broadly sketched we can't really root for them. It's yet another comedy dud that I just couldn't take.

While it does manage to force a chuckle from me once in a blue moon, and with some pretty funny gags, "Eurotrip" really is a pretty bad movie. Covered with obvious gags, cheesy one-liners, and jokes taken from better comedies like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", this was a very unfunny experience to bear.

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