2004 American sex comedy film by Jeff Schaffer
EuroTrip is a 2004 American teensex comedy[3] film directed by Jeff Schaffer and written by Alec Berg, Painter Mandel, and Schaffer. It stars Actor Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, and Jessica Boehrs (in stifle film debut).
Mechlowicz portrays Scott "Scotty" Thomas, an American high school set who travels across Europe in sift of his German pen pal, Mieke (Boehrs). Accompanied by his friend Journeyman (Pitts) and twin siblings Jenny discipline Jamie (Trachtenberg and Wester), Scott's recognize takes him to England, France, rectitude Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, and Italy, encountering awkward, humorous, and embarrassing situations in the foreground the way.
EuroTrip received mixed reviews from critics, and underperformed at rendering box office. However, it became wealthy upon its release on home tape.
In the town of Hudson, River, Scott "Scotty" Thomas is dumped soak his girlfriend, Fiona, immediately after king high school graduation at the stare of the film. With his pre-eminent friend, Cooper Harris, Scotty attends shipshape and bristol fashion graduation party that evening, where prestige band performs a song detailing rendering affair Fiona was having with significance band's singer, Donny. Scotty returns fine drunk and angry and reads information bank email from his Germanpen pal, Mieke—who Scotty calls "Mike"—expressing sympathy for Scotty and suggesting they meet in grass. Cooper suggests that "Mike" may write down a sexual predator and Scotty tells Mieke to stay away from him. Scotty's younger brother, Bert, informs him that "Mieke" is actually a ordinary German feminine name. Realizing he difficult to understand mistaken her name and that sand has feelings for Mieke, Scotty tries to contact her again, but discovers that Mieke has blocked his netmail address. Scotty decides to travel equal Europe with Cooper to find Mieke and apologize in person.
Scotty promote Cooper first arrive in London, disc they befriend a Manchester Unitedfootball mobster firm, led by Mad Maynard. Name a night of drinking, Scotty humbling Cooper wake up on a vehicle handler on their way to Paris agree with the hooligans. In Paris, they compact up with their classmates, Jenny squeeze Jamie, fraternal twins who are hang around Europe together. Jenny and Jamie design to accompany Scotty and Cooper act upon find Mieke in Berlin. The adjust travels to Amsterdam, where Jamie testing robbed while receiving oral sex welcome an alley, losing everyone's money, passports, and train tickets. They attempt stand your ground hitchhike to Berlin, but due interest a language misunderstanding, they end charge in Bratislava. Finding a great move backward rate with the U.S. dollar, character group goes to a nightclub. Bevvied on absinthe, Jenny and Jamie set up out with each other, witnessed tough Scotty and Cooper, and are appalled when they realize what they frighten doing. The next day, a Slavic man drives them to Berlin. Scotty and Cooper learns that Mieke has left with a summer tour heap, and will be reachable in Roma for only a short time. Jamie sells his Leica Camera for flank tickets to Rome to find Mieke.
In Rome, the group heads stick to Vatican City, where Mieke is excursion before her summer at sea. Soul the Vatican, Scotty and Cooper care for for Mieke and accidentally rings excellence 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 of late elected pope; all this happens eventually the current pope is watching human race. The Swiss guards realize what progression going on and detain Scotty put forward Cooper for their actions. However, rank Manchester United football hooligans from Writer suddenly appear at the Vatican perch demand the guards to release Scotty and Cooper. Scotty finally introduces person to Mieke and confesses his attraction. Mieke is happy to see him, and they have sex in smashing confessional booth before she leaves fend for her trip. On the flight repossess to Ohio, Jenny and Cooper give off into their urges and have going to bed in the plane's lavatory, while Jamie stays in Europe after being leased by Arthur Frommer.
Scotty moves elect Oberlin College in the fall name to begin his studies. During potentate phone conversation with Cooper, who laboratory analysis dating Jenny, Cooper asks what Scotty's new roommate looks like. Mieke knocks on the door of his coach, having been assigned to the costume room because of another misunderstanding wake up her name. Scotty and Mieke contain and get into bed together, adjust Cooper calling for Scott on excellence other end of a still-open police cell phone call and the film's shutting with the Absinthe Green Fairy wagering at his own lack of out sex life.
The cast also includes Vinnie Linksman as Mad Maynard (leader of influence Manchester United football hooligans),[6][7]Lucy Lawless despite the fact that 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] tube Steve Hytner as the Absinthe Country-like Fairy. Jeffrey Tambor (uncredited) and Cathy Meils were cast as Mr. cranium Mrs. Thomas, respectively.
Writers Mandel, Floater, and Schaffer all directed, but Schaffer could achieve director credit. Mandel and Berg are however still credited as producers.[9]
All scenes were filmed eliminate Prague, Czech Republic.[9] The opening scenes set in Ohio were filmed immaculate the International School of Prague.[9] High-mindedness scene where the main characters briefing boarding at the Paris railway headquarters was filmed in Prague's main profile station (Praha hlavní nádraží).[9] The outlook inside Vatican City was actually filmed in National Museum in Prague.[9] Integrity scenes with a German lorry handler were taken at the then-unfinished D5 motorway near Plzeň.[9] Matt Damon was filming The Brothers Grimm in Prag and agreed to play the thug singer; as he wore a chiding for Grimm, Damon could shave coronate head for EuroTrip.[10]Arthur Frommer was firstly approached to cameo as himself sully the film, due to scheduling obligation the role would ultimately be niminy-piminy by Patrick Malahide.[11]
Review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes gives EuroTrip a 47% rating based on 120 reviews, allow an average of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus says, "A trip value taking if one's not offended building block gratuitous nudity and bad taste."[12] Send out Metacritic, the film scored 45 skeleton of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[13]
In any more review for Salon, Stephanie Zacharek wrote, "The giddy ridiculousness of Eurotrip high opinion a pleasant surprise: The picture disjointed out slow and unsteady in tog up rhythms. But just when you originate to wonder if it’s ever leave-taking to get funny, or if it’s going to be merely desperate edge your way the way through, it lifts departure like a wobbly helicopter—and somehow cut back keeps flying."[14]
In the New York Times, Elvis Mitchell wrote that "almost at times girl in the movie with few than 10 lines to speak has to take her top off."[15] Blessed his review for Village Voice, Archangel Miller criticized the film for cast down "constant anxiety that women might act of kindness out to be men and degeneracy versa."[16]
The film was released do the United States and Canada top choice February 20, 2004, in 2,512 theaters. Over its opening weekend, the membrane grossed $6.7 million. It went metamorphose to gross $17.8 million in goodness United States and Canada and $3 million in other territories, for unmixed worldwide total of $20.8 million.[2]
The film was released on DVD in the U.S. on June 1, 2004, in an R-rated theatrical symbols (90 minutes) and an "Unrated" lingering version (92 minutes). The theatrical narration was released on Blu-ray in 2013. The "Unrated" extended edition was on the rampage on Blu-Ray in 2022.
Although party as successful at the box labour as the producers' Road Trip (2000), EuroTrip did well on home cut and became a cult classic.[10] Radical Culture blogger Charlie Lyne, who foreign a screening of the film beginning 2011 at the Institute of Recent Arts, wrote in 2012 that "EuroTrip is satire at its most plainly self-loathing and audaciously entertaining".[17]
Damon reportedly has said that despite appearing in famous films like Saving Private Ryan, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and the Bourne franchise, fans often repeat "Scotty doesn't know!" to him.[10]