Leaving the States

Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me
Do it in my van every Sunday.
She tells him she's in church but she doesn't go
Still she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know!

Eurotrip.

Not a bad brainless 90-minutes of fun. Some very funny moments, offset only by a few moments of dubious taste (even for a teen comedy) and some sporadic lapses in research on the part of the writers. Still an enjoyable way to kill an evening.

Good bits: Scotty Doesn't Know song ; the guy on the train; the idiot side-kick character.

Bad bits: the fact that I can't look at Michelle Trachtenberg without thinking Buffy's younger sister, and serious jailbait, and feeling guilty, even though she's eighteen years old, and shown in a sexual light (and rightly so, because she is hot); the fact that on a map of Europe, the Republic of Ireland is coloured with the Union Jack, which is just lazy research; the fact that apparently the best thing about England is 'No drinking age'--
(we have a drinking age here -- 18 -- we just try and get around it)
-- which is just lazy research; and dressing up a five-year old boy as Hitler, complete with Nazi salutes --
(I'm all in favour of taking the piss out of the Germans, but for fuck sake, it's been 60 years, surely even American scriptwriters are cleverer than that?)
-- which is both lazy comedy and tasteless as hell.