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Corrections about Europe

posted 18 years ago by l_hoornaert
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Some Major errors about Europe in the movie:

1. Why Manchester United Supporters in London? Why didn't they pick Chelsea, West Ham, Millwall...hooligans? Manchester is situated about 330km north of London.

2. Crans-sur-Mer doesn't exsist and the location shows the landscape of southern France (St-Tropez) while they actually are on the location of Calais or Boulogne-sur-Mer in Northern France.

3. While going from Bratislava to Berlin, the map on the dinertable shows a representation of the Black forest (Schwartzwald). The Black Forest actually is located in South-Western Germany (at the frontier with Alsace, France).

4. It's impossible to see as many trees next to the Louvre in Paris.

5. It's not possible to announce the death of the pope and having a new one on the same day. They're must be a conclave with all of the cardinals of the world under the age of 80 to elect a new one...so nobody would actually believe that Scott is the new pope.

6. The map on the table showd Rome to be on the east of Berlin....Rome is to the south of Berlin.

7. Scotty says they're's no drinking age in England...The drinking age is 18 in England (16 in my country, Belgium).

[–] damongruber 17 years ago

8. You can't quit your job and start a new hotel business from scratch with 5 cents of US$ in Slovakia.

[–] dotlineline 17 years ago

The drinking age is actually 16 in England. I was there when I was 16.
And man, it's just a movie. They are actually trying to parody Europe.

[–] furrysmurf 17 years ago

If a similar movie were to come out of Europe, in which European tourists travel through an inaccurate, stereotype-laden America, where everyone talks like cowboys and Mount Rushmore is right across from the White House, that would be hilarious.

There's nothing wrong with the inaccuracies of EuroTrip, because they were the POINT of the movie (besides the tits).

[–] kaisersalsek 17 years ago

What are you talking about? Unless something has changed this very minute, England's drinking age is 18, it has been for the 21 years of my life, and much more before that. A lot of continental countries are 16. You may have been served, since a lot of places don't care so much but times are changing

[–] ukrobbo 16 years ago

WRONG!

[–] Just_Mancini 16 years ago

Yeah I come from Scotland and the drinking age is 18 for the whole of the UK (as in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).

[–] banana-96 17 years ago

I agree with the majority of the posters here. This is only a movie. I think the inaccuracies were, for the most part, intentional and overtly stereotypical. It was trying to show how the inexperienced teenagers, "typical Americans," view the rest of the world. If anything, it's making fun of our ethnocentric ideals.

Heck, I live in New Jersey. I should be upset that all movies show us as wannabe New Yorkers with this ridiculous accent and ties to the mob. There is no White Castle in Cherry Hill, Harold and Kumar! And south jersey has got to be the flattest land on the face of the earth. Where did they find a cliff from which to hang glide? But wait...it's a freaking movie! Get over it!

[–] snakealicous 16 years ago

Does anyone really give a *beep*

but it was because it made the film easier to make, as everyone knows United but might not know Chelsea, and the drinking age is 18, but since they've just graduated highschool in america they are probably about 19/20 so can drink in England, but not in America since it's 21.

[–] AngryAfghan 16 years ago

The worst bit about this movie though, is that's it's a posterboard for America's prudish nature. It's hilarious that they say at the start the US was founded by prudes, because this movie seems to advocate prudishness rather than object to its full-blown hypocrisy. The message seems to be something along the lines of; it's a good thing the US was founded by prudes, else the US would be as freaky/gay as Europe.

Oh and..

8. The exchange rate between the Euro and the Dollar is NOT IN FAVOUR of the Dollar. What the hell were they doing with Dollars in Europe?

Im glad someone else pointed out these two errors, I found this film to be so frustrating because it was nothing like Road Trip which was much more risqué than EuroTrip which to me seemed like a kids film, no one even had sex in it and they didn't even get high in Amsterdam FFS!!

And about the currencies, I know this film was made in 2004 but the trend has been a consistently lower value of the dollar for the past few years, the Euro is stronger the dollar and the pound. No one would accept US dollars in Europe, it is not the highly coveted currency americans seem to think it is.

[–] jamiemcgrory 16 years ago

Corrections about Europe? But this movie was a historically accurate documentary wasn't it!

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[–] sicklemaker 16 years ago

Well, don't we do the same thing with our own country?

I just watched a film recently called "2001 Maniacs", which depicted the South as a backwater, incestuous,"the South will rise agaaain!" place. Being from the South (Tennessee), I knew what the actual South is like. And...I still enjoyed the movie.

Fancy that?

I'm a Midwesterner now. Misconceptions and inaccuracies there too. Nonetheless, still not offended. When I see a comedy saying the Midwest is full of farming idiots...I laugh. That's the point, isn't it?

Been to New York, and it's not as crime-filled as its shown (and no-where close to my city of St. Louis). Yet that inaccuracy in a movie won't deter me from it.

It's a play on stereotypes of both Europeans and Americans, with inaccuracies in both. In other words: lighten up.

[–] hawleyj2 16 years ago

angryafghan the euro is absolutely NOT stronger than the pound

I don't need to keep saying this was a movie and not a depiction of Europe like all the Europeans seem to believe it is because that has been said over and over again.

My biggest problem with this whole board topic is that all of these Europeans are rallying together to talk bad about all the stupid Americans when the fact of the matter is there is more hate country to country in Europe than the US towards any European country. Anyone that wants to refute that please do, I'd love to hear otherwise.

Also, the unity in Europe on this board is kind of laughable how a lot of eastern europeans are defending Europe and everything about it. There's a reason that Europe is referred to as "eastern europe" and "western europe". Any from my experience from talking to several different French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and Irish people while in Europe, these countries (or at least these people i talked to) consider Western Europe to be Europe, and Eastern Europe as not nearly on the same level (similar to the general sentiment about the US and Canada).

Get real.

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[–] AngryAfghan 16 years ago

angryafghan the euro is absolutely NOT stronger than the pound

Are you still sure about that?

http://www.vatark.co.uk/vat/eurosterling-exchange-rates-from-january-2 008-to-september-2009/

Hmm...Looks like the pound hasn't even recovered to that rate it enjoyed when you originally posted.

[–] teixeiraofsweden 16 years ago

Dude, trying to point out the geographical errors and getting upset over how unrealistic the pope scene is like being upset that Indiana Jones survives a nuclear blast by climbing in to a fridge since it's "obviously unrealistic".

Seriously, it's a movie! Watch documentaries and/or the news if you want realism.

And oh yeah, I'm not American, I am a very proud European, who happens to be a film student and therefore understanding the fact that movies like this aren't supposed to mimic real life but provide us with an illusion of real life. See the difference there?

[–] soc_dk 16 years ago

@ OP (And everybody else really)

It's pretty pointless to point out flaws in this movie. It would be much more appropriate to point out the good things with this movie, since there's only 2 or 3.

This is, without exaggeration, the simple most lousy piece of film I've ever seen. It's so horrible that I won't even waste more words on it. Yuck.

[–] SirPsychoSexy91 16 years ago

Hey, a fellow Belgian! I saw this film as a satire of American knowledge about Europe, so #1,3,6 and 7 really don't bother me, as I considered them intentional errors. I don't see why they couldn't make a fictional town either, it's a movie. #4 and 5 are just goofs, but I thought the one with the pope bit was pretty funny, though.

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[–] khatho 16 years ago

goofs? do you really think they don't know a new pope doesn't get elected the same day the old one died? come on!

it's a movie about assumptions and exagerations, any flaw, goof or insult shoult be considered a joke, intentional or not...

I am a Belgian, European too, and I was not at all insulted by this film (which didn't even acknowledge us), I thought is was great! Especially the 'what can you do with a couple of cents - scene in Prague', maybe now all people from Prague can write me angry letters that poverty is not something to joke about and that 5-star hotels and delicious plates cost at least a couple of euros over there...

awsome!

[–] icefire65 16 years ago

It's an American comedy made for Americans. I guess a majority of the audiences didn't care or didn't even know much enough to pick out the errors. I got really pissed off about the Man U thing though, cos I'm a huge fan and it's just weird for them to be in London, I mean the bar can be gatecrashed and those Mancs can be beaten up hardout! But hey, not everyone's a fan of football so not everyone knows Chelsea or Westham. United appears to be the most famous football club in the world hence the way they portrayed it in the movie. Even though I totally sympathise with you, I'm from New Zealand and I get annoyed when people mix it up with Australia.

[–] TheMilkeyBarKid 16 years ago

In the movie, where you see them flying over europe and all the countires flags can be seen. they replace the irish flag with the english flag

[–] LittleMissObsessive 16 years ago

The Union Flag is the flag of the UK, not England!
That totally pisses me off!!

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