Kevin's fun with titles

Slap Her, She's French

I'm curious about the title of this film -- At no point does anyone in the film want to, advocate or even think about slapping Giselle solely on the basis of her nationality. Sure, the main-character wants to slap her because she's a bitch, because she comes in and steals her life, but not because she's French. The French thing's almost an irrelevant point. It's like saying slap her, she's got brown hair.

What has that got to do with anything?

The Girl I See on the Stairs comments that the film was made when anti-French feelings were running high in America, and she could well be right. Aside from the title, the film is patronising and dumb and unbalanced. The French are evil, scheming and untrustworthy. The slight twist to the film's ending wasn't surprising, and left me confused to exactly what they were trying to accomplish here. So what are you trying to say? Actually Americans are evil, scheming and untrustworthy, but that French people still suck?

All in all it's such a fine example of international relationship building, I'm tempted to take back all the nasty things I said about Eurotrip.

There are a few good moments -- the 'beef pageant', the French revision tape, and Giselle's final bit of scheming spring to mind -- but much of the film was so bad it was spent trying to come up with witty alternative endings to the film's title.