2004, R, 90 minutes

The raunchy teen comedy Eurotrip is being billed as "from the producers of Road Trip and Old School." Those earlier movies, while being crude and stupid, at least had seasoned comic actors like Will Ferrell and Seann William Scott, who could milk laughs out of threadbare material. Eurotrip is led by four young actors who aren't comedians, so we have a movie that's crude, stupid, and-most problematic: not very funny.

Eurotrip centers on four graduating high school students. Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) keeps in close contact with his German e-mail pen pal Mieke. On graduation night, Scott discovers that Mieke is actually not a guy, but a beautiful blonde (Jessica Boehrs). He decides he must go to Berlin at once to meet her. Tagging along is his wild-and-crazy best friend Cooper (Jacob Pitts, in the American Pie Stifler role). Scott and Cooper are unable to fly directly to Berlin, but they meet up with twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester), friends from back home who happen to be vacationing in Paris.

From there, the gang sets out to Berlin together, and they encounter much craziness along the way. The guys decide to check out a nude beach, only to find it populated exclusively by naked fat men. In Amsterdam, Scott and Jenny get high on hash brownies and make fools of themselves in public, only to find out the brownies are drug-free. Cooper goes to a whorehouse and encounters Madame Vandersexxx (Lucy Lawless), only to find she's into hardcore S&M. Then Jamie gets mugged during an amorous encounter in an alley with a salesgirl, leaving the gang flat broke with no passports.

Their wacky adventure continues with the quartet partying in Eastern Europe. At a nightclub, they get themselves a bottle of absinthe and are soon too drunk for words. Siblings Jamie and Jenny get a little too close for comfort, much to the amusement their equally-stoned travelmates.

All of these zany high jinks would be fine if they provided consistent comedy, but the laughs are few and far between. The movie is just kind of there, with the young actors straining with the lame material. All four are relative newcomers in their first big film roles (except for Trachtenberg of Harriet the Spy and TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and they don't make much of an impression. However, the real blame should be reserved for writers Jeff Schaffer (who also directed), Alec Berg, and David Mandel. The three have solid writing credits between them (Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, Late Night With Conan O'Brien), but there is very little wit or cleverness here.

On the plus side, some amusing cameos help. Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live is very funny as a lecherous Italian who helps himself to a seat in the kids' train compartment. Matt Damon has fun with a small role as a punk rocker. Lawless is memorable as the dominatrix.

Raunchy teen comedies have their place. Movies like Animal House, Porky's, and American Pie have their admirers. Eurotrip just doesn't have the laughs or the skilled comedic cast of those movies. It includes some of the ingredients of a hit teen comedy (lots of nudity and gross-out gags) but mostly it leaves out the comedy.