It's been a while since we've had a genuine, bona fide, solid-gold example of the film genus Europudding - so here's one they made earlier (ie, 1999).
Take a beautiful, unknown US daytime soap starlet (Jordana "As the World Turns" Brewster), couple her with a US star slumming in Europe for a laugh (Cameron Diaz) and add a serious British actor who knows no fear of silly 1970s wigs (Christopher Ecclestone). Stir well and throw into a pot large enough to hold several combative egos, not forgetting to over-egg the sauce.
Result? A prime folly about a young American girl searching Europe for the answer to her sister's untimely death-by-suicide in Portugal. Naturally, this entails her going to Amsterdam and Paris first, doubtless to legitimise the respective countries' financial input and provide pretty scenery (Canals! The Eiffel Tower!) by way of instruction to stay-at-home Americans who probably think this a mighty sophisticated use of foreign locations. I haven't laughed so much since those old travelogues they used to show before the main feature at my local Regal. At least they weren't encumbered by anything remotely resembling a plot. Come to think of it, neither is this.
Preposterous. And not in a good way.
Invisible Circus
Cert: cert15
