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Just saw EuroTrip last night (the unrated version, on DVD).  I almost wet myself laughing.

Dramatis Personae:

• Scott Thomas (our hero)
  
• Fiona (his girlfriend at the beginning; small but hilarious part)
• Cooper (the required "friend with no social graces who gives the hero bad advice which, for some reason, he always takes")
• Jenny (Scott and Cooper's friend; her tag line is "Hello!  I'm a girl?!"  You really gotta wonder about these two if they have missed this fact.)
• Jamie (Jenny's twin brother.  The mandatory "straight arrow Beaver-Cleaver type who you know is going to have his world repeatedly rocked by the end of the movie".)
• Mieke (Scott's email pen-pal from Germany)
• A horde of exotic Europeans who probably do not exist outside the feverish wet dreams of adolescent males.
• A horde of exotic Europeans who hopefully do not exist outside the feverish wet dreams of adolescent Stephen Kings and Clive Barkers.
  

Basic plot:  After being dumped by his girlfriend (Fiona), Scott Thomas discovers that his German pen-pal Mieke (pronounced mee-KA) is not, in fact, a guy named Mike.  She is, in fact female and  amazingly attractive.  For a lot of reasons, he decides to hop on a plane and go find her, to tell her that  he is in love with her.  His friends (Cooper, Jenny, Jamie) join up with him and, together, they travel across Europe trying to get to Berlin where Mieke lives. 

See below for details (and spoilers).

(In case you're wondering, yes, the link above is a picture of Jessica Boehrs, the actress who played Mieke.  That is a publicity still from her band, NovaSpace.  Here's a shot from the movie to demonstrate her slightly more "girl next door" look (that particular scene is from the alternate ending).
 
I strongly recommend seeing this movie.  It's hilarious.

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