Jason C
Reviewer

      While the names Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer might not ring any bells with “Eurotrip”'s audience members, almost everyone is familiar with the TV show the three men wrote for: “Seinfeld.”
 
      Now, “Eurotrip”, touted as being from the producers of “Old School” and “Road Trip” in order to push college students into the seats, serves as the writing dream team's chance to make it to the big time—or at least the big time among raunchy, college sex comedies.
 
      To call “Eurotrip” raunchy is to make a profound understatement. From S&M and incest to more male nudity than a National Geographic documentary, many will assume that this film represents the mindsets of college students across the nation.
 
      Incest is OK, as long as it's funny and regretted. Hallucinogenic drugs are worth a try or two. When a man and woman fall in love, it's OK to have unprotected, premarital sex right away—even if it's in the most inappropriate place in the entire world (see the film to find out where). It seems that all of this obscene behavior is justified as long as it provides a good laugh or two. And luckily, for the sake of the audience, there are more laughs than one would expect from the film's trailer.
 
      Genuinely hilarious teen sex romps are hard to find because movie producers almost always aim for low blows involving gross-out jokes and a couple of topless girls to keep people from demanding their money back. Unknowns are cast, costs are kept low and the studio is bound to earn a profit from whatever allowance money college students haven't already spent on party cups and pitchers.
 
      However, “Eurotrip”'s main laughs come not from gross-out scenarios but from comedic situations worthy of at least a good chuckle from people of all ages.
 
      The setup is, of course, incredibly simplistic. The film's male hero gets dumped on graduation day, and the hurt gets even deeper at a party featuring a "Was that actually Matt Damon?" cameo and a funny, catchy song that will reverberate in your head for days. He quickly decides to join his friends on a, yes, Euro-trip, so he can track down and have wild, crazy German sex with his pen pal who he once thought was a man.
 
      Like “Old School”, the comedy is in the details, and a lack of plot allows the comedic situations to keep coming. Along the way, the group encounters a gay Italian man (Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen) who simply distracts the film and is even less funny than he appears in the film's trailer. The real highlights come from interaction with a robot outside the Louvre in Paris and a dark, sexual cameo from Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) with an anal probe like no one has ever seen before (that is, if anyone's actually seen an anal probe at all).
 
      Director Jeff Schaffer keeps the laughs flowing until the predictable but still humorous end, but the lack of any standout characters or situations keep the film down. This is a situational comedy that takes all emphasis away from character development, but Michelle Trachtenberg provides the most jaw-dropping performance. Once the star of Nickelodeon's "Harriet the Spy", Trachtenberg comes out of her shy shell and shines. Her absinthe incest scene seems almost like a slap in the face to her Nickelodeon roots and will probably guarantee her future roles in these films.
 
      Movies such as “Old School” and “Road Trip” aren't judged by their quality, but by how much laughter comes from the inane situations. With this qualification for excellence, “Eurotrip” does a surprising job at infusing the year's raunchiest sex comedy with enough funny moments that you won't mind pulling out a passport and spending $7 to go see it.