From Jonathan Klotz
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Comedies have been missing in the theater for so long that a whole generation in a world without a new big budget comedy was aged every month. Even in streaming there are only a few new comedies, but a film from 2004 that was ignored in cinemas has thrived in the new world of entertainment and became a cult classic. EurotripThe type of rumic teen comedy, which NO Studio will touch with a 10-foot rod today, is more than ever 20 years after its publication and, thanks to Pluto TV, is easy.
Scotty doesn’t know
Eurotrip Starts with one of the best scenes of the teenage party in history when the youngest graduate Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) and Cooper (Jacob Pitts) go to a party to help Scotty, his latest separation with Fiona (Smallville Kristin Kreuk). It works pretty well until the band Lustra with front man Matt Damon as a lead singer takes up the stage to play her new song “Scotty Don’t Know”. Damon, took a break from filming The Grimm brothers transforms the silly song about the cheating of Scotty into an absolute banger that fans will still sing to him today, and it is an early highlight for the film, even before Scotty makes a trip to Europe.
Scotty sets off to apologize to his German Penpal Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) after she assumed that thanks to her name, she was a man he said as “Mike”. It is a flimsy reason to start the real action of the film, but Eurotrip It is more about gluing the two friends and their classmates, the twins Jamie (Travis Wester) and Jenny (Buffy’s Michelle Trachtenberg) in bizarre situations that are surrounded by equally strange European characters. From Manchester United Soccer Hooligans to Lucy Lawless When dominatrix, a first encounter with absinthe and a run-in with Vatican security, it is clear from the start that the film does not take itself seriously.
Eurotrip If the flood of early-be comedies is noticeable by not only absorbing every joke, but also going out every joke beyond the point of absurdity, but also dissolving the four leading character arches, motivations and then everything that was set up by the story itself. It is a simple concept that is often referred to as “storytelling”, but too often comedies leave it to the side to get into another Zinger. In view of the author/director team behind the film, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it can be smart and stupid at the same time.
The comedic genius behind Eurotrip
Alec berg (co -fece from Barry), David Mandel (Showrunner from Veep) and Jeff Schaffer (Creator of The league) Everyone wrote and directed Eurotrip Write to the teeth after cutting the teeth His field And Board your enthusiasmMake the most overqualified writing team to work on a young comedy. Her hard work led to a cash flop that brought in 22 million US dollars worldwide and did not attribute the budget of $ 25 million, but that is only until the film hit DVD, where it exploded on the rental market. A second publication with an unvalved cut was even more successful, although it only made two minutes of film material.
The death of comedy films was gradually and today a film like Eurotrip I would never get a broad theater publication and there is a good chance that it would never get green suffering primarily because the market has changed. It has been over 20 years ago that “Scotty does not know” played on the big screen, and there could be another 20 until someone tries to keep making a rimish teenage road trip.
For those who have not seen what’s doing Eurotrip So good that the theater version can currently stream on Pluto TV free of charge, while the unfortunate average was released on Blu-ray in 2022.
