Thursday Movie Picks: Globetrotting Movies

In the 28th week of 2020 for Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. We venture into the subject of globetrotting as it play into people going on a trip through various continents around the world and such. Often does wonder for movies around the world and all sorts of stuff. Here are my three picks:

1. National Lampoon’s European Vacation

The second film in the Vacation film series, this film is often overlooked by both its predecessor and its 1989 Christmas sequel. Still, this is a pretty funny film that is directed by Amy Heckerling as it play into the Griswalds winning a trip to Europe after appearing on a game show and so much shit goes wrong. It features a recurring cameo appearance from Eric Idle who gets hurt all the time and all sorts of strange shit as well as a hilarious dream sequence of what each Griswald wants to imagine being in Europe with Audrey scared over all of the fine cuisine in the continent, Rusty being an idol in his imagined European tour, Ellen meeting the British Royal Family with Clark turning Princess Diana down to dance with his wife, and Clark dreaming about his own version of The Sound of Music.

2. Until the End of the World

Wim Wenders’ 1991 film is the ultimate road movie as it goes into many places all over the world and in its original runtime of nearly five hours is one of the most immersive cinematic experiences of its time. It revolves two people traveling all over the world before a nuclear satellite is about to land on Earth before the end of the millennium. One is a thief and the other is the son of a reclusive yet revered scientist who carries an object that might save humanity as they band together. Wenders just goes all out with the film as it goes to places in Europe, the U.S., Japan, China, and Australia with a music soundtrack that play features the likes of U2, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith, Can, R.E.M., and many others.

3. Eurotrip

A road movie of sorts set largely in Europe is definitely one of the more underrated comedies of the 2000s that’s deservingly becoming a cult classic. Four post-high school graduates go to Europe as one of them is trying to find a German girl he had been chatting with after he sent some an awful email mistaking her name to be a guy’s name. There, hilarity ensues as it involves Manchester United hooligans, French robot performers, Fred Armisen saying “scuse”, some strange drunken shit in Eastern Europe, S&M, and other weird shit. Oh, and there’s a cameo by Matt Damon early in the film about having nasty freaky sex with some high school girl he hooked up with.

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