More or less an old fashioned romantic comedy updated with today's sexual mores, this movie is really a travelogue pretending to be a story.  The screenplay is good, not great, with some clever dialogue, decent acting and a tongue-in-cheek plot.  Basically, it's lightweight entertainment and easy to watch.

            Mandy Moore plays Anna Foster, the 18-year-old president's daughter who feels boxed into her official life by the secret service.  She wants to spread her wings, thus she is 'chasing liberty'.  Matthew Goode is a British actor who plays Ben Calder, her love interest.  They are both new young actors and they give respectable performances.  Two support-acting veterans Jeremy Piven and Annabella Sciorra play a parallel couple in the screenplay, Morales and Weiss.  They provide more of the comedy.  The banter between both sets of couples and the terrific scenery provide the high points of the film.

            The story takes us to Prague, Vienna, Venice and Berlin.  It's a European tour to some of the most interesting and spectacular venues available to the traveler.  On the DVD, the two principles give us their personal impressions of these places in the Special Features segment called Passport to Europe. 

            Reviewed April 11, 2005

            MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief nudity.