This double feature presents two road-trip comedies: ROAD TRIP (2000) and EUROTRIP (2004).
ROAD TRIP is good raunchy fun, starring a likable cast of characters, told by director
Todd Phillips with a charm that places it above the standard teen exploitation flick. University of Ithaca College freshman Josh (
Breckin Meyer) misses his childhood sweetheart, Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), who is going to school in Austin, Texas. Josh makes a tape proclaiming his love for her, but one of his friends accidentally mails the wrong tape: he instead sends the tape of Josh having sex with the beautiful Beth (
Amy Smart). So Josh, E.L. (
Seann William Scott), Rubin (Paulo Costanzo), and Kyle (DJ Qualls), the geek with a car, set off in a powder blue Ford Taurus to intercept the tape before Tiffany can see it. They leave behind the insane Barry (
Tom Green), who is on the multiyear graduating plan and would rather stay in the dorm and feed a live mouse to Mitch the snake. The group's 1800-mile trip features encounters with exploding cars, crazy motel clerks, too-hip grandparents, stealing from the blind, the wrong fraternity, and that old standby, chef's revenge.
Meanwhile, there's plenty of nudity and sex in EUROTRIP. Poor Scott (
Scott Mechlowicz) finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him and then thinks his European pen-pal Mike is trying to start a homosexual affair via email. Once he realizes Mike is actually Mieke, a beautiful German girl, he and his buddy Cooper (
Jacob Pitts) take off for Europe on a madcap quest to find her, discovering plenty of raunchy sex along the way. Hooking up with nerdy Jamie (
Travis Wester) and his twin sister (
Michelle Trachtenberg), they bond with soccer thugs in London, battle mimes in France, eat brownies in Amsterdam, guzzle absinthe in a European dance club, and generally raise mayhem. Gags include a grope-happy train passenger, a child impersonating Hitler, and some near incest.