By Jonathan Klotz
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Comedies have been missing for so long in the theater for so long, an entire generation has become major in a world without a new big budget comedy that comes out every month. Even streaming, the new comedies are rare, but a 2004 film, which was ignored in theaters, prospered in the new world of entertainment and has become a classic cult. EurotripThe type of hot teen comedy that no studio will touch with a 10 -foot pole today, is more popular 20 years after its release than ever, and it is easily broadcast for free thanks to Pluto TV.
Scotty does not know
Eurotrip Decouring one of the best festive scenes for adolescents in history when the recent graduate Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) and Cooper (Jacob Pitts) go to a party to help Scotty overcome his recent break with Fiona (Smallville Kristin Kreuk). It goes pretty well, until the Lustra group goes on stage with singer Matt Damon like Donny, the main singer, to play his new song, “Scotty does not know”. Damon, taking a break in the shooting The Grimm brothers Transforms the silly song on Scotty’s cheating into an absolute banger that fans will always sing for him today, and this is a first high point for the film even before Scotty made a trip to Europe.
Scotty leaves to apologize to her German penpal, Mieke (Jessica Boehrs), after supposing that she was a guy thanks to her name, which he declared “Mike”. This is a fragile reason to launch the real intrigue of the film, but Eurotrip consists more in sticking the two friends and their classmates, the twins Jamie (Travis Wester) and Jenny (Buffy Michelle Trachtenberg), in bizarre situations surrounded by equally strange European characters. Of Manchester United Soccer Hooligans, at Lucy Lawless As a domineering, a first meeting with Absinthe and a race with the security of the Vatican, it is clear from the start that the film does not take itself seriously.
Eurotrip stands out among the overabundance of the comedies of the first Ahites by pushing not only each joke a little beyond absurdity, but by giving the four the main arches of characters, motivations, then resolving everything in a way established by history itself. It is a simple concept, often called “narration”, but too often, the comedies drop him to the side to enter another zinger. Given the writer / director team behind the film, it should not surprise that he is both intelligent and stupid at the same time.
Comic genius behind Eurotrip
Alec Berg (co-creator of Barry), David Mandel (showrunner of Veep), and Jeff Schaffer (creator of The League) All have written and managed Eurotrip After cutting their teeth to write to Seinfeld And Attach your enthusiasmThis makes it the most overqualified writing team to work on a teenage comedy. Their hard work led to a box office flop, collecting $ 22 million worldwide and going down the budget of $ 25 million, but it was only until the film reaches the DVD where it exploded on the rental market. A second version, with an unrecovered cut, was even more successful, although it only amounted to two additional minutes of sequences.
The death of comedy films was progressive and today, a film like Eurotrip would never receive a large theatrical version and there is a good chance that it will never be Green enlightened in the first place given the way in which the market has changed. It has been more than 20 years since “Scotty does not know” on the big screen, and it could be another 20 before anyone who tries to make a Teen Trip Rump risk again.
For those who have not seen what makes Eurotrip So well, the theatrical version is currently available to broadcast for free on Pluto TV, while the unrealed cut was published on Blu-Ray in 2022.
