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{{Short description|2004 American sex comedy film by Jeff Schaffer}}
[[Image:Eurotrip_movie.jpg |thumb|175px|Movie poster of EuroTrip]]
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{{Infobox film
| name = EuroTrip
| image = Eurotrip_movie.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Jeff Schaffer]]<ref name=afi>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=63058|title=Eurotrip|work=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]|access-date=2017-08-05|archive-date=2017-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806065134/http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=63058|url-status=live}}</ref>
| writer = {{Plainlist|
* Jeff Schaffer
* [[Alec Berg]]
* [[David Mandel]]
}}
| producer = {{plainlist|
* Alec Berg
* David Mandel
* [[Daniel Goldberg (producer)|Daniel Goldberg]]
* [[Jackie Schaffer|Jackie Marcus]]
}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Scott Mechlowicz]]
* [[Jacob Pitts]]
* [[Michelle Trachtenberg]]
* [[Travis Wester]] <!-- main cast only here -->
}}
| cinematography = [[David Eggby]]
| editing = Roger Bondelli
| music = [[James L. Venable]]
| studio = [[The Montecito Picture Company]]<ref name=afi/>
| distributor = [[DreamWorks Pictures]]<ref name=afi/>
| released = {{Film date|2004|02|20}}
| runtime = 92 minutes<ref name=afi/>
| country = United States<ref name=afi/>
| language = English<ref name=afi/><!-- primary language only -->
| budget = $25 million<ref name="boxmojo" />
| gross = $20.8 million<ref name="boxmojo" />
}}
'''''EuroTrip''''' is a 2004 American [[Teen film|teen]] [[sex comedy]]<ref name=av>{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/behold-an-oral-history-of-scotty-doesnt-know-and-mat-1828418672 |title=Behold, an oral history of 'Scotty Doesn't Know' and Matt Damon's weird-ass Eurotrip cameo |first=Randall |last=Colburn |date=August 17, 2018 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=April 20, 2022 |archive-date=March 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304111013/https://www.avclub.com/behold-an-oral-history-of-scotty-doesnt-know-and-mat-1828418672 |url-status=live }}</ref> film directed by [[Jeff Schaffer]] and written by [[Alec Berg]], [[David Mandel]], and Schaffer. It stars [[Scott Mechlowicz]], [[Jacob Pitts]], [[Michelle Trachtenberg]], [[Travis Wester]], and [[Jessica Boehrs]] (in her film debut). Mechlowicz portrays Scott "Scotty" Thomas, an American high school graduate who travels across Europe in search of his German [[pen pal]], Mieke (Boehrs). Accompanied by his friend Cooper (Pitts) and twin siblings Jenny and Jamie (Trachtenberg and Wester), Scott's quest takes him to England, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, and Italy, encountering awkward, humorous, and embarrassing situations along the way.


==Plot==
'''''EuroTrip''''' is a [[2004]] [[United States|American]] [[comedy]] [[film|movie]] about a group of young Americans and their adventures traveling around [[Europe]].
In the town of [[Hudson, Ohio]], Scott "Scotty" Thomas is dumped by his girlfriend, Fiona, immediately after his high school graduation at the beginning of the film. With his best friend, Cooper Harris, Scotty attends a graduation party that evening, where the band performs [[Scotty Doesn't Know|a song]] detailing the affair Fiona was having with the band's singer. Scotty returns home drunk and angry and reads an email from his [[Germans|German]] [[pen pal]], Mieke—who Scotty calls "Mike"—expressing sympathy for Scotty and suggesting they meet in person. Cooper suggests that "Mike" may be a sexual predator and Scotty tells Mieke to stay away from him. Scotty's younger brother, Bert, informs him that "Mieke" is actually a common German feminine name. Realizing he had mistaken her name and that he has feelings for Mieke, Scotty tries to contact her again, but discovers that Mieke has blocked his email address. Scotty decides to travel to Europe with Cooper to find Mieke and apologize in person.


Scotty and Cooper first arrive in [[London]], where they befriend a [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] [[Red Army (football)|football hooligan firm]], led by Mad Maynard. After a night of drinking, Scotty and Cooper wake up on a bus on their way to [[Paris]] with the hooligans. In Paris, they meet up with their classmates, Jenny and Jamie, [[fraternal twins]] who are touring Europe together. Jenny and Jamie decide to accompany Scotty and Cooper to find Mieke in [[Berlin]]. The group travels to [[Amsterdam]], where Jamie is robbed while receiving [[oral sex]] in an alley, losing everyone's money, passports, and train tickets. They attempt to hitchhike to Berlin, but due to a language misunderstanding, they end up in [[Bratislava]]. Finding a great [[exchange rate]] with the [[U.S. dollar]], the group goes to a nightclub. Drunk on [[absinthe]], Jenny and Jamie [[Incest|make out with each other]], witnessed by Scotty and Cooper, and are horrified when they realize what they are doing. The next day, a Slovak man drives them to Berlin. Scotty and Cooper learns that Mieke has left with a summer tour group, and will be reachable in [[Rome]] for only a short time. Jamie sells his [[Leica Camera]] for plane tickets to Rome to find Mieke.


In Rome, the group heads to [[Vatican City]], where Mieke is touring before her summer at sea. Inside the Vatican, Scotty and Cooper search for Mieke and accidentally rings the bell of San Marco, which signals the [[Pope]] has died. Scotty appears on a balcony and spots Mieke in the cheering crowd below, who have mistaken him for the newly elected pope; all this happens while the current pope is watching everyone. The [[Swiss guard]]s realize what is going on and detain Scotty and Cooper for their actions. However, the Manchester United football hooligans from London suddenly appear at the Vatican and demand the guards to release Scotty and Cooper. Scotty finally introduces himself to Mieke and confesses his love. Mieke is happy to see him, and they have sex in a confessional booth before she leaves on her trip. On the flight back to Ohio, Jenny and Cooper give into their urges and [[Mile high club|have sex in the plane's lavatory]], while Jamie stays in Europe after being hired by [[Arthur Frommer]].
==Synopsis==
{{spoiler}}


Scotty moves to [[Oberlin College]] in the fall term to begin his studies. During his phone conversation with Cooper, who is dating Jenny, Cooper asks what Scotty's new roommate looks like. Mieke knocks on the door of his room, having been assigned to the same room because of another misunderstanding about her name. Scotty and Mieke embrace and get into bed together, with Cooper calling for Scott on the other end of a still-open cell phone call and the film's closing with the Absinthe Green Fairy wondering at his own lack of a sex life.
The premise of the story is the [[online]] friendship between Scotty ([[Scott Mechlowicz]]), from the USA, and Mieke ([[Jessica Boehrs]]), from [[Germany]]. Scott thinks that his penpal is male, and when Mieke finds out that Scotty was dumped, she wants to arrange a meeting with Scotty in the [[United States]], prompting Scotty to call 'him' a "sick German freak" and telling Mieke never to speak to him again. The next morning, his younger brother tells him that Mieke is a girl's name. He then sets out to travel to Germany to meet her, accompanied by his best friend, and meeting up with two of their other friends.


===Travel sites===
==Cast==
* [[Scott Mechlowicz]] as Scott "Scotty" Thomas: <br />A recent high school graduate who inadvertently makes the mistake of thinking his German pen pal Mieke to be a homosexual man, thanks to his limited fluency in speaking [[German language|German]].<ref name="production">{{cite web |title=''Eurotrip'' Movie Production Notes |url=http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2004/eurotrip_production_details.htm |website=Media Atlantis |publisher=[[DreamWorks Pictures]] |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310190534/http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2004/eurotrip_production_details.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> When he finds out that Mieke is in reality an attractive woman, Scotty travels across Europe to Berlin to beg for her forgiveness.<ref name="variety">{{cite web |last1=Foundas |first1=Scott |title=Eurotrip |url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/eurotrip-1200536350/ |website=Variety |date=February 17, 2004 |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521064944/https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/eurotrip-1200536350/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Mechlowicz described Scotty as a flawed but kindhearted man, who is "very lucky to have such a good group of friends to prop him back up".<ref name="production"/>
* [[Ohio]], [[United States]]: Start of the movie, where Scotty is dumped by his girlfriend and attends his graduation party. He then realizes he must travel to [[Germany]].
* [[Jacob Pitts]] as Cooper Harris: <br />Scotty's raunchy, libidinous best friend. Pitts described Cooper as a [[hypersexual]] man who is "driven by his own base impulses ... which gets everyone else into trouble."<ref name="production"/>
* [[Michelle Trachtenberg]] as Jenny: <br />Scotty and Cooper's friend and twin sister of Jamie. Trachtenberg described Jenny as both book savvy and a risk-taker. "She is more willing to take a chance or go on an adventure, whereas Jamie always has to be convinced", said Trachtenberg.<ref name="production"/>
* [[Travis Wester]] as Jamie: <br />Jenny's twin brother. Wester described Jamie as a lifelong learner whose aspiration is "the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge".<ref name="production"/>
* [[Jessica Boehrs]] as Mieke Schmidt: <br />Scotty's German pen pal.<ref name="production"/> Boehrs made her film debut with ''EuroTrip''.<ref name="variety"/>


The cast also includes [[Vinnie Jones]] as Mad Maynard (leader of the [[Manchester United]] football hooligans),<ref name="bfi">{{cite web |title=Eurotrip (2004) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8a35b800 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517041944/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8a35b800 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 17, 2019 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref><ref name="thomson">{{cite news |last1=Thomson |first1=Desson |author-link=Desson Thomson |title=Tasteless 'Eurotrip' Doesn't Travel Well |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/02/20/AR2005033116606.html?noredirect=on |newspaper=Washington Post |date=February 20, 2004 |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202202752/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/02/20/AR2005033116606.html?noredirect=on |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Lucy Lawless]] as Madame Vandersexxx (a sex-club [[dominatrix]]),<ref name="bfi"/><ref name="variety"/> [[Patrick Malahide]] as [[Arthur Frommer]],<ref name="bfi"/> [[Diedrich Bader]] as Mugger,<ref name="bfi"/> [[Fred Armisen]] as Creepy Italian Guy,<ref name="variety"/> [[Kristin Kreuk]] as Fiona (Scotty's ex-girlfriend),<ref name="popmatters">{{cite web |last1=Colgan |first1=Mary |title=Eurotrip (2004) |url=https://www.popmatters.com/eurotrip-2496238701.html |website=[[PopMatters]] |date=26 February 2004 |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-date=30 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930131509/https://www.popmatters.com/eurotrip-2496238701.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Nial Iskhakov as Bert Thomas (Scotty's younger brother),<ref name="popmatters"/> [[Matt Damon]] as Donny (Fiona's new boyfriend),<ref name="variety"/> [[J. P. Manoux]] as Robot Man,<ref name="bfi"/> and [[Steve Hytner]] as the [[Absinthe]] Green Fairy. [[Jeffrey Tambor]] (uncredited) and Cathy Meils were cast as Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, respectively.
* [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]: Since the courier manager only had a flight going to London, they took that bargain for $118, with Cooper thinking that Europe is "the size of the Eastwood Mall"


==Production==
* [[Paris]], [[France]]: After being accepted by a bunch of soccer hooligans, this is where they end up, with Scott and Cooper meeting up with their twin friends Jamie and Jenny.
Writers Mandel, Berg, and Schaffer all directed, but only Schaffer could achieve director credit.<ref name=dvd>EuroTrip DVD Commentary</ref>


All scenes were filmed in [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]].<ref name=dvd/> The opening scenes set in Ohio were filmed at the [[International School of Prague]].<ref name=dvd/> The scene where the main characters are boarding at the Paris railway station was filmed in Prague's main railway station ([[Praha hlavní nádraží|Hlavní nádraží]]).<ref name=dvd/> The scene inside Vatican City was actually filmed in [[National Museum (Prague)|Prague's National Museum]].<ref name=dvd/> The scenes with a German lorry driver were taken at the then-unfinished [[D5 motorway (Czech Republic)|D5 motorway]] near [[Plzeň|Pilsen]].<ref name=dvd/> Matt Damon was filming ''[[The Brothers Grimm (film)|The Brothers Grimm]]'' in Prague and agreed to play the punk singer; as he wore a wig for ''Grimm'', Damon could shave his head for ''EuroTrip''.<ref name="ryan20180817">{{Cite web |last=Ryan |first=Mike |date=2018-08-17 |title=Don't Tell Scotty But Here's An Oral History Of 'Scotty Doesn't Know' |url=https://uproxx.com/movies/scotty-doesnt-know-eurotrip-oral-history/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=UPROXX |archive-date=2022-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003161104/https://uproxx.com/movies/scotty-doesnt-know-eurotrip-oral-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* France's northern coast: The group takes a train ride up here, where they go to a naked beach. To their dismay, it is full of naked men like them looking for girls. After Jenny takes off her shirt, they get chased by naked men on a beach.


==Reception==
* [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]: A must-needed stop along the way, where Cooper goes to the "Vandersexx" club and has one hell of a night. Scotty and Jenny go to a cafe and eat what they think are hash brownies and Jamie gets a [[Oral sex#Fellatio|blowjob]] from a girl in the camera store in an alley. Unfortunately, it is here where Jamie, who is in charge of all the money and identity, is robbed of everything and leaves the group with nothing.


===Critical response===
* [[Bratislava]], [[Slovakia]]: With no choice but to find a ride to Berlin, they manage to get a truck driver to pull over. Unfortunately, he does not speak English, and Scotty must use what little German he knows to understand him. He mishears him, thinks he is going to Berlin, but really is going "nowhere near Berlin". So they end up in Bratislava, where they are horrified by Eastern Europe. They talk to a Slovakian, and discover that there is no train coming, it is still being built. They only have $1.81 American, but due to the exchange rate, they get the executive suite at a lavish Slovakian hotel and for 33 cents, get into a nightclub and get lots of drinks, and the twins end up making out. The next morning, the same Slovakian shows up in his Soviet Bloc car painted like the General Lee, and he drives them to [[Berlin]].
Review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives ''EuroTrip'' a 47% rating based on 120 reviews, and an average of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus says, "A trip worth taking if one's not offended by gratuitous nudity and bad taste."<ref name="rotten">{{cite web| url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eurotrip/| title=Eurotrip| website=Rotten Tomatoes| access-date=January 19, 2008| archive-date=May 23, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523051650/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eurotrip/| url-status=live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film scored 45 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/eurotrip| title=Eurotrip (2004): Reviews| website=[[Metacritic]]| access-date=January 19, 2008| archive-date=November 19, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119101544/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/eurotrip| url-status=live}}</ref>


In her review for ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', Stephanie Zacharek wrote, "The giddy ridiculousness of ''Eurotrip'' is a pleasant surprise: The picture starts out slow and unsteady in its rhythms. But just when you begin to wonder if it’s ever going to get funny, or if it’s going to be merely desperate all the way through, it lifts off like a wobbly helicopter—and somehow it keeps flying."<ref name="salon">{{cite news |last=Zacharek |first=Stephanie |title=EuroTrip |work=Salon.com |url=http://www.salon.com/2004/02/20/eurotrip/ |access-date=January 20, 2012 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103110/http://www.salon.com/2004/02/20/eurotrip/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]: A friend that the group made takes them to Berlin, but only to find out that Mieke is gone. They realize she is in Rome on a tour group, and Jamie sells his precious [[Leica]] to earn enough money to fly to Rome.


In the ''New York Times'', [[Elvis Mitchell]] wrote that "almost every girl in the movie with fewer than 10 lines to speak has to take her top off."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mitchell|first1=Elvis|title=A Jokey Quest for Eurosex, Riding a Wave of Alcohol|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/movies/20EURO.html|access-date=7 March 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 20, 2004|archive-date=21 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121022015/http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/movies/20EURO.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In his review for ''[[Village Voice]]'', Michael Miller criticized the film for its "constant anxiety that women might turn out to be men and vice versa."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Michael|title=Film|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-02-17/film/film/|access-date=7 March 2015|newspaper=Village Voice|date=February 17, 2004|archive-date=2008-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915194930/http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-02-17/film/film/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Vatican City]]: The final destination, Scotty and Cooper end up running through the Vatican, ringing the bell of Saint Marco as well as lighting up white smoke, which makes everyone think he will be the new pope. There he finds Mieke, and runs through many people and jumps down a rope to meet up with her. Although the swiss Vatican guards realized what was going on and attempted to stop them, the soccer hooligans from earlier in the movie come back and thwart their attempts.

==Humor==
Eurotrip's tagline was "no actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film", and it is perhaps most notable for its many [[stereotype]]s of various European countries and their people. Prominent among them are:

*[[Eastern Europe]], which is portrayed as [[poverty]]-stricken ([[Bratislava]] is visited by the group)
*The [[Netherlands]], which is portrayed as very tolerant of [[recreational drug use|drug]]s and [[prostitution]] ([[Amsterdam]] is visited)
*[[United Kingdom|British]] people, who are portrayed as [[football (soccer)|football]] [[hooliganism|hooligans]]
*[[France|French]] people, who are protrayed as boring and stuffy (as shown by the long line at the [[Louvre]] and the mention of one at the [[Eiffel Tower]]

Inherent in the plot is the portrayal of the American protagonists as naïve or boorish.

==Cast==
* [[Scott Mechlowicz]] &ndash; Scott (Scotty) Thomas
* [[Jacob Pitts]] &ndash; Cooper Harris
* [[Michelle Trachtenberg]] &ndash; Jenny
* [[Travis Wester]] &ndash; Jamie


===Box office===
''Ohio''
The film was released in the United States and Canada on February 20, 2004, in 2,512 theaters. Over its opening weekend, the film grossed $6.7 million. It went on to gross $17.8 million in the United States and Canada and $3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $20.8 million.<ref name="boxmojo">{{cite web |title=Eurotrip (2004) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=eurotrip.htm |access-date=January 19, 2008 |archive-date=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509222412/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=eurotrip.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Kristin Kreuk]] &ndash; Fiona
* [[Nial Iskhakov]] &ndash; Bert Thomas (Scott's brother)
* [[Matt Damon]] &ndash; Donny


===Home media {{Anchor|DVD|DVD Release}}===
''London''
The film was released on DVD in the U.S. on June 1, 2004, in an R-rated theatrical version (90 minutes) and an "Unrated" extended version (92 minutes). The theatrical version was released on Blu-ray in 2013. The "Unrated" extended edition was released on Blu-Ray in 2022.
* [[Vinnie Jones]] &ndash; Mad Maynard (Hooligans' leader)


===Legacy===
''Paris''
Although not as successful at the box office as the producers' ''[[Road Trip (2000 film)|Road Trip]]'' (2000), ''EuroTrip'' did well on [[home video]] and became a [[cult classic]].{{r|ryan20180817}} Ultra Culture blogger [[Charlie Lyne]], who introduced a screening of the film in 2011 at the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]], wrote in 2012 that "''EuroTrip'' is satire at its most brazenly self-loathing and audaciously entertaining".<ref name="ultra">{{cite web |title=EuroTrip, a somewhat definitive review |publisher=Ultra Culture |url=http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/7902-eurotrip-review-1.htm |access-date=January 20, 2012 |archive-date=January 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108064937/http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/7902-eurotrip-review-1.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[J.P. Manoux]] &ndash; Robot Man
* [[Patrick Rapold]] &ndash; Christoph
* [[Fred Armisen]] &ndash; Creepy Italian Guy on Train


Damon reportedly has said that despite appearing in notable films like ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)|The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'', and the ''[[Bourne (film series)|Bourne]]'' franchise, fans often repeat "Scotty doesn't know!" to him.{{r|ryan20180817}}
''Amsterdam''
* [[Lucy Lawless]] &ndash; Madame Vandersexxx
* [[Go Go Dyei Jen-Michel]] &ndash; Rasta Waiter
* [[Jana Pallaske]] &ndash; Anna the Camera Store Girl


==Soundtrack==
''Bratislava''
{{Infobox album
* [[Dominic Raacke]] &ndash; Trucker
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* [[Steve Hytner]] &ndash; Green Fairy
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| genre = [[Punk rock]], [[pop music|pop]]
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| label = [[Milan Records|Milan]]
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{{Music ratings
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| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r680121|pure_url=yes}} link]
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<!-- see Template:Track listing to improve this section -->
# "[[Scotty Doesn't Know]]" – [[Lustra (band)|Lustra]]
# "[[My Generation (The Who song)|My Generation]]" – [[Chapeaumelon]] ([[The Who]] cover)
# "[[Wild One (Johnny O'Keefe song)|Wild One]]" – [[Wakefield (band)|Wakefield]]
# "[[99 Luftballons|99 Red Balloons]]" – [[Goldfinger (band)|Goldfinger]] ([[Nena (band)|Nena]] cover)
# "[[In the City (The Jam song)|In the City]]" – [[The Jam]]
# "[[Ca Plane Pour Moi]]" - "[[Plastic Bertrand]]"
# "Shooting Stars" – Cauterize
# "[[Are You Gonna Be My Girl]]" – [[Jet (Australian band)|Jet]]
# "Nonchalant" – [[Chapeaumelon]]
# "Scotty Doesn't Know" (Euro Version) – MC Jeffsky
# "Make My Dreams Come True" – [[Apollo 440]]
# "Du" – [[David Hasselhoff]] ([[Peter Maffay]] cover)
# "Les Promesses" – [[Autour De Lucie]]
# "I Love Marijuana" – [[Linval Thompson]]
# "Turn It Up" – [[Ugly Duckling (hip hop group)|Ugly Duckling]]
# "Get Loose" – [[The Salads]]
# “England 5, Germany 1” - [[The Business (band)|The Business]]
# “Guinness Boys” - [[The Business (band)|The Business]]
# “9 to 5 (Morning Train)” - [[Sheena Easton]]


==See also==
''Berlin''
* [[National Lampoon's European Vacation]]
* [[Walter Sittler]] &ndash; Mieke's father
* [[Adam Dotlacil]] &ndash; Heinrich


==References==
''Vatican City''
{{Reflist}}
* [[Joel Kirby]] &ndash; Swiss Guard
* [[Jessica Boehrs]] &ndash; Mieke
* [[Patrick Malahide]] &ndash; Arthur Frommer
* [[Jack Marston]] &ndash; [[Pope John Paul II]]


==External links==
==External links==
{{wikiquote|Eurotrip|EuroTrip}}
*[http://www.eurotrip-themovie.com Official website]
*{{imdb title|id=0356150|title=Eurotrip}}
* {{IMDb title|0356150}}
* {{AllMovie title|296452}}
*[http://www.lucylawless.info/eurotrip.php Lucy Lawless in Eurotrip]


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Latest revision as of 04:38, 27 September 2024

EuroTrip
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJeff Schaffer[1]
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDavid Eggby
Edited byRoger Bondelli
Music byJames L. Venable
Production
company
Distributed byDreamWorks Pictures[1]
Release date
  • February 20, 2004 (2004-02-20)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish[1]
Budget$25 million[2]
Box office$20.8 million[2]

EuroTrip is a 2004 American teen sex comedy[3] film directed by Jeff Schaffer and written by Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Schaffer. It stars Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, and Jessica Boehrs (in her film debut). Mechlowicz portrays Scott "Scotty" Thomas, an American high school graduate who travels across Europe in search of his German pen pal, Mieke (Boehrs). Accompanied by his friend Cooper (Pitts) and twin siblings Jenny and Jamie (Trachtenberg and Wester), Scott's quest takes him to England, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, and Italy, encountering awkward, humorous, and embarrassing situations along the way.

Plot

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In the town of Hudson, Ohio, Scott "Scotty" Thomas is dumped by his girlfriend, Fiona, immediately after his high school graduation at the beginning of the film. With his best friend, Cooper Harris, Scotty attends a graduation party that evening, where the band performs a song detailing the affair Fiona was having with the band's singer. Scotty returns home drunk and angry and reads an email from his German pen pal, Mieke—who Scotty calls "Mike"—expressing sympathy for Scotty and suggesting they meet in person. Cooper suggests that "Mike" may be a sexual predator and Scotty tells Mieke to stay away from him. Scotty's younger brother, Bert, informs him that "Mieke" is actually a common German feminine name. Realizing he had mistaken her name and that he has feelings for Mieke, Scotty tries to contact her again, but discovers that Mieke has blocked his email address. Scotty decides to travel to Europe with Cooper to find Mieke and apologize in person.

Scotty and Cooper first arrive in London, where they befriend a Manchester United football hooligan firm, led by Mad Maynard. After a night of drinking, Scotty and Cooper wake up on a bus on their way to Paris with the hooligans. In Paris, they meet up with their classmates, Jenny and Jamie, fraternal twins who are touring Europe together. Jenny and Jamie decide to accompany Scotty and Cooper to find Mieke in Berlin. The group travels to Amsterdam, where Jamie is robbed while receiving oral sex in an alley, losing everyone's money, passports, and train tickets. They attempt to hitchhike to Berlin, but due to a language misunderstanding, they end up in Bratislava. Finding a great exchange rate with the U.S. dollar, the group goes to a nightclub. Drunk on absinthe, Jenny and Jamie make out with each other, witnessed by Scotty and Cooper, and are horrified when they realize what they are doing. The next day, a Slovak man drives them to Berlin. Scotty and Cooper learns that Mieke has left with a summer tour group, and will be reachable in Rome for only a short time. Jamie sells his Leica Camera for plane tickets to Rome to find Mieke.

In Rome, the group heads to Vatican City, where Mieke is touring before her summer at sea. Inside the Vatican, Scotty and Cooper search for Mieke and accidentally rings the bell of San Marco, which signals the Pope has died. Scotty appears on a balcony and spots Mieke in the cheering crowd below, who have mistaken him for the newly elected pope; all this happens while the current pope is watching everyone. The Swiss guards realize what is going on and detain Scotty and Cooper for their actions. However, the Manchester United football hooligans from London suddenly appear at the Vatican and demand the guards to release Scotty and Cooper. Scotty finally introduces himself to Mieke and confesses his love. Mieke is happy to see him, and they have sex in a confessional booth before she leaves on her trip. On the flight back to Ohio, Jenny and Cooper give into their urges and have sex in the plane's lavatory, while Jamie stays in Europe after being hired by Arthur Frommer.

Scotty moves to Oberlin College in the fall term to begin his studies. During his phone conversation with Cooper, who is dating Jenny, Cooper asks what Scotty's new roommate looks like. Mieke knocks on the door of his room, having been assigned to the same room because of another misunderstanding about her name. Scotty and Mieke embrace and get into bed together, with Cooper calling for Scott on the other end of a still-open cell phone call and the film's closing with the Absinthe Green Fairy wondering at his own lack of a sex life.

Cast

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  • Scott Mechlowicz as Scott "Scotty" Thomas:
    A recent high school graduate who inadvertently makes the mistake of thinking his German pen pal Mieke to be a homosexual man, thanks to his limited fluency in speaking German.[4] When he finds out that Mieke is in reality an attractive woman, Scotty travels across Europe to Berlin to beg for her forgiveness.[5] Mechlowicz described Scotty as a flawed but kindhearted man, who is "very lucky to have such a good group of friends to prop him back up".[4]
  • Jacob Pitts as Cooper Harris:
    Scotty's raunchy, libidinous best friend. Pitts described Cooper as a hypersexual man who is "driven by his own base impulses ... which gets everyone else into trouble."[4]
  • Michelle Trachtenberg as Jenny:
    Scotty and Cooper's friend and twin sister of Jamie. Trachtenberg described Jenny as both book savvy and a risk-taker. "She is more willing to take a chance or go on an adventure, whereas Jamie always has to be convinced", said Trachtenberg.[4]
  • Travis Wester as Jamie:
    Jenny's twin brother. Wester described Jamie as a lifelong learner whose aspiration is "the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge".[4]
  • Jessica Boehrs as Mieke Schmidt:
    Scotty's German pen pal.[4] Boehrs made her film debut with EuroTrip.[5]

The cast also includes Vinnie Jones as Mad Maynard (leader of the Manchester United football hooligans),[6][7] Lucy Lawless as Madame Vandersexxx (a sex-club dominatrix),[6][5] Patrick Malahide as Arthur Frommer,[6] Diedrich Bader as Mugger,[6] Fred Armisen as Creepy Italian Guy,[5] Kristin Kreuk as Fiona (Scotty's ex-girlfriend),[8] Nial Iskhakov as Bert Thomas (Scotty's younger brother),[8] Matt Damon as Donny (Fiona's new boyfriend),[5] J. P. Manoux as Robot Man,[6] and Steve Hytner as the Absinthe Green Fairy. Jeffrey Tambor (uncredited) and Cathy Meils were cast as Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, respectively.

Production

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Writers Mandel, Berg, and Schaffer all directed, but only Schaffer could achieve director credit.[9]

All scenes were filmed in Prague, Czech Republic.[9] The opening scenes set in Ohio were filmed at the International School of Prague.[9] The scene where the main characters are boarding at the Paris railway station was filmed in Prague's main railway station (Hlavní nádraží).[9] The scene inside Vatican City was actually filmed in Prague's National Museum.[9] The scenes with a German lorry driver were taken at the then-unfinished D5 motorway near Pilsen.[9] Matt Damon was filming The Brothers Grimm in Prague and agreed to play the punk singer; as he wore a wig for Grimm, Damon could shave his head for EuroTrip.[10]

Reception

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Critical response

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Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives EuroTrip a 47% rating based on 120 reviews, and an average of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus says, "A trip worth taking if one's not offended by gratuitous nudity and bad taste."[11] On Metacritic, the film scored 45 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[12]

In her review for Salon, Stephanie Zacharek wrote, "The giddy ridiculousness of Eurotrip is a pleasant surprise: The picture starts out slow and unsteady in its rhythms. But just when you begin to wonder if it’s ever going to get funny, or if it’s going to be merely desperate all the way through, it lifts off like a wobbly helicopter—and somehow it keeps flying."[13]

In the New York Times, Elvis Mitchell wrote that "almost every girl in the movie with fewer than 10 lines to speak has to take her top off."[14] In his review for Village Voice, Michael Miller criticized the film for its "constant anxiety that women might turn out to be men and vice versa."[15]

Box office

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The film was released in the United States and Canada on February 20, 2004, in 2,512 theaters. Over its opening weekend, the film grossed $6.7 million. It went on to gross $17.8 million in the United States and Canada and $3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $20.8 million.[2]

Home media

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The film was released on DVD in the U.S. on June 1, 2004, in an R-rated theatrical version (90 minutes) and an "Unrated" extended version (92 minutes). The theatrical version was released on Blu-ray in 2013. The "Unrated" extended edition was released on Blu-Ray in 2022.

Legacy

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Although not as successful at the box office as the producers' Road Trip (2000), EuroTrip did well on home video and became a cult classic.[10] Ultra Culture blogger Charlie Lyne, who introduced a screening of the film in 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, wrote in 2012 that "EuroTrip is satire at its most brazenly self-loathing and audaciously entertaining".[16]

Damon reportedly has said that despite appearing in notable films like Saving Private Ryan, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and the Bourne franchise, fans often repeat "Scotty doesn't know!" to him.[10]

Soundtrack

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Eurotrip
Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004
GenrePunk rock, pop
LabelMilan
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
  1. "Scotty Doesn't Know" – Lustra
  2. "My Generation" – Chapeaumelon (The Who cover)
  3. "Wild One" – Wakefield
  4. "99 Red Balloons" – Goldfinger (Nena cover)
  5. "In the City" – The Jam
  6. "Ca Plane Pour Moi" - "Plastic Bertrand"
  7. "Shooting Stars" – Cauterize
  8. "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" – Jet
  9. "Nonchalant" – Chapeaumelon
  10. "Scotty Doesn't Know" (Euro Version) – MC Jeffsky
  11. "Make My Dreams Come True" – Apollo 440
  12. "Du" – David Hasselhoff (Peter Maffay cover)
  13. "Les Promesses" – Autour De Lucie
  14. "I Love Marijuana" – Linval Thompson
  15. "Turn It Up" – Ugly Duckling
  16. "Get Loose" – The Salads
  17. “England 5, Germany 1” - The Business
  18. “Guinness Boys” - The Business
  19. “9 to 5 (Morning Train)” - Sheena Easton

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Eurotrip". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on August 6, 2017. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Eurotrip (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
  3. ^ Colburn, Randall (August 17, 2018). "Behold, an oral history of 'Scotty Doesn't Know' and Matt Damon's weird-ass Eurotrip cameo". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Eurotrip Movie Production Notes". Media Atlantis. DreamWorks Pictures. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e Foundas, Scott (February 17, 2004). "Eurotrip". Variety. Archived from the original on May 21, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Eurotrip (2004)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  7. ^ Thomson, Desson (February 20, 2004). "Tasteless 'Eurotrip' Doesn't Travel Well". Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 2, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  8. ^ a b Colgan, Mary (February 26, 2004). "Eurotrip (2004)". PopMatters. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  9. ^ a b c d e f EuroTrip DVD Commentary
  10. ^ a b c Ryan, Mike (August 17, 2018). "Don't Tell Scotty But Here's An Oral History Of 'Scotty Doesn't Know'". UPROXX. Archived from the original on October 3, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  11. ^ "Eurotrip". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
  12. ^ "Eurotrip (2004): Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on November 19, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
  13. ^ Zacharek, Stephanie. "EuroTrip". Salon.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
  14. ^ Mitchell, Elvis (February 20, 2004). "A Jokey Quest for Eurosex, Riding a Wave of Alcohol". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 21, 2018. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  15. ^ Miller, Michael (February 17, 2004). "Film". Village Voice. Archived from the original on September 15, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  16. ^ "EuroTrip, a somewhat definitive review". Ultra Culture. Archived from the original on January 8, 2012. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
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