A Fan Favourite Intercourse Comedy Leaves Behind a Dangerous Style on Streaming

by way of DreamWorks

American Pie kicked off the resurgence of the sex-crazed teen comedy across the flip of the millennium, with Judd Apatow occurring to nook the market within the mid-to-late 2000s, which left co-writer and director Jeff Schaffer’s 2004 effort EuroTrip someplace within the center.

Regardless of bombing on the field workplace after failing to recoup its $25 million finances from theaters, the raucous cross-continental caper went on to take pleasure in an enormous long-lasting lease of life on residence video, changing into a staple of excessive colleges and school dorms in every single place on its method to firmly entrenching itself as a cult favourite amongst a complete technology.

That unabashed love for EuroTrip extends to the evaluations, too, with the film’s middling 47 % crucial rating on Rotten Tomatoes being dwarfed by a 75 % consumer ranking from upwards of 250,000 votes. It had solar, sea, sand, intercourse, gross-out humor, dangerous style jokes, and gratuitous nudity, so it was at all times going to hit large with the target market.

Virtually twenty years on, and the unruly antics of 4 buddies heading off on an journey to unite a lovelorn teen together with his German pen pal has been making its mark on streaming having reached the Prime Video world most-watched listing in a number of international locations, per FlixPatrol.

Puerile and lowbrow it might be, nevertheless it’s nonetheless mind-boggling that EuroTrip can nonetheless proceed to attract in a crowd on-demand, particularly when movies of the same ilk have been slowly dying out as comedy continues to change into extra reactive to the world we dwell in right this moment.