{{Short description|2004 film by Jeff Schaffer}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = EuroTrip | image = Eurotrip_movie.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Jeff Schaffer<ref name=afi>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/63058-EUROTRIP?sid=7a395f42-8d95-4e25-89e7-56cab15f13a4&sr=10.908473&cp=1&pos=0 |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 * 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 = $22.6 million<ref name="boxmojo" /> }} '''''EuroTrip''''' is a 2004 American 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, from a screenplay he wrote with Alec Berg and David Mandel.<ref name=cracked>{{cite web|last1=VanHooker |first1=Brian |url=https://www.cracked.com/article_41190_an-oral-history-of-the-cult-classic-eurotrip.html|title=An Oral History of the Cult Classic 'EuroTrip'|website=Cracked |date=February 20, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2025}}</ref> The film was produced by The Montecito Picture Company and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. It stars Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Travis Wester.
Mechlowicz portrays Scotty Thomas, a recent high school graduate from the Youngstown, Ohio area who travels across Europe in search of his German pen pal, Mieke (Jessica Boehrs). Accompanied by his friend Cooper (Pitts) and twin siblings Jenny and Jamie (Trachtenberg and Wester), Scotty's quest takes him to England, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, and Italy, encountering awkward, humorous, and embarrassing situations along the way.
''EuroTrip'' was released in theaters on February 20, 2004. It received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing $22.6 million against a $25 million budget. It gained popularity through its home video release and eventually attained a cult classic status. It is considered a spiritual successor to the 2000 DreamWorks release ''Road Trip'', but was not originally intended to serve as such, with the original title being ''Ugly Americans''. Before release, DreamWorks deliberately changed the film's title to ''EuroTrip'', in order to capitalize on the success of ''Road Trip''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cracked.com/article_41190_an-oral-history-of-the-cult-classic-eurotrip.html|title=An Oral History of the Cult Classic 'EuroTrip'|first=Brian|last=VanHooker|date=February 20, 2024|website=Cracked.com}}</ref>
==Plot== In the town of Hudson, Ohio, Scotty Thomas is dumped by his girlfriend, Fiona, immediately following his high school graduation in 2004. With his best friend, Cooper Harris, Scotty attends a graduation party that evening, where the band performs a song "Scotty Doesn't Know", detailing the affair Fiona was having with the band's singer, Donny. Scotty returns home drunk and angry and reads an email from his German pen pal, Mieke—whom 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 Mieke is a girl and he has feelings for her, Scotty tries to contact her again, but she blocks 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 learn 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 ring 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 live television. 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 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 pre-med 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== * 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 sex predator, thanks to his limited fluency in speaking 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 young 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"/> * 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 fraternal younger 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"/> As she was 18 years old at the time of the film's release, Trachtenberg was the only main actor in the cast who was an actual teenager, while the rest of the cast were in their 20s or older. * Travis Wester as Jamie: <br />Jenny's fraternal older 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"/> {{nowrap|J. P.}} Manoux as Robot Man,<ref name="bfi"/> Rade Šerbedžija as Tibor, Jana Pallaske as Anna the Camera Store girl, and Steve Hytner as the Absinthe Green Fairy. Jeffrey Tambor (uncredited) and Cathy Meils were cast as Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, respectively.
==Production== Writers David Mandel, Alec Berg, and Jeff Schaffer were doing work as script doctors when in Mandel's words they concluded “Boy, comedy directors aren’t great, and it doesn’t seem to take a lot to be a comedy director. The bar is low — why not us?”. So they decided to write a screenplay reminiscent of the sex comedies they grew up watching, that could also be done in a small budget so they could also direct. Already with an idea of a trip to Europe after pitching this for an ''American Pie'' sequel, the trio wrote it while working on ''The Cat in the Hat'', incorporating many stories from their friends in similar trips. The resulting spec script ''Ugly Americans'' got into a bidding war before Ivan Reitman and DreamWorks acquired it in June 2002, with a deal that allowed Mandel, Berg and Schaffer to direct and also that production had to start in the following year. The trio attempted to send the project to New Line Cinema once DreamWorks founder Steven Spielberg objected to a scene where Cooper mistook Anne Frank House for a brothel, given he is one of the museum's biggest donors, but the other studio also balked at the idea, so the scene was replaced in the Amsterdam sequence with one involving a dominatrix. The Directors Guild of America forbade the trio from sharing the credit. Schaffer earned the honor of receiving sole credit when a production assistant picked his name out of a hat.<ref name=cracked />
Filming begun in February 2003. Aside from the nude beach in the German city of Rostock,<ref name=cracked /> all scenes were filmed in Prague, Czech Republic.<ref name=dvd>EuroTrip DVD Commentary</ref> 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).<ref name=dvd/> The scene inside Vatican City was actually filmed in National Museum in Prague.<ref name=dvd/> The scenes with a German lorry driver were taken at the then-unfinished D5 motorway near Plzeň.<ref name=dvd/> An air base in Milovice was used for Bratislava for its ravaged look, though once the crew returned to the location and found it clean, broken windows and graffiti had to be added back. For the opening scene at the party, production had to look all over Prague for a house with a backyard, and Red Cups were brought from the United States.<ref name=cracked/> Arthur Frommer was initially approached to cameo as himself in the film; due to scheduling difficulties the role would ultimately be played by Patrick Malahide.<ref>{{cite web |title="EuroTrip" Revisited: The Real Arthur Frommer Reveals the Story Behind the Sex Comedy Classic |url=https://www.frommers.com/trip-ideas/arts-and-culture/eurotrip-revisited-fact-checking-the-frommers-references-in-a-mid-aughts-sex-comedy |publisher=Frommer's |date=April 7, 2020 |access-date=December 14, 2024 }}</ref>
Due to Screen Actors Guild rules that dictated every American actor had to be paid for travel and accommodations - as Berg put it, "to get somebody to come from America to deliver ''one line'', it’s like $20,000." - extras were Czech, and most American actors were already in Prague to begin with.<ref name=cracked/> This included Matt Damon, who was filming ''The Brothers Grimm'' in Prague and agreed to play the punk singer, given he could shave his head for the wig he wore in ''Grimm'';<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> and Lucy Lawless, invited as she prepared to return to New Zealand for a one-day cameo as the dominatrix Madame Vandersexxx.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lucylawless.net/articles/2004/tribunenews250204.php|title=Czech them out: Stars make 'Eurotrip' cameos. - Lucy Lawless|website=www.lucylawless.net}}</ref> For her role, Lawless used a fake European accent, although she can be heard speaking in her normal accent during the end credits blooper reel. The costume Lawless used for the film was later auctioned to charity in 2004.<ref name="net">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lucylawless.net/articles/2004/hiponline0304.php|title=Lucy Lawless - Hip Online Interview March 2004|website=www.lucylawless.net}}</ref> Lawless noted that the seductive image of Xena and her character in this film were far removed from her real life, saying in 2004 "I know I have this weird, raunchy image (laughs). This simply isn't true, but its fun to play those bad girls. They are in me somewhere. I'm so damn suburban that it isn’t even funny."<ref name="net"/> American actors flown in included Absinthe Fairy portrayer Steve Hytner, who the directors met working in ''Seinfeld'', and a few that were originally planned to use actors from the portrayed cities - "Either everybody stunk, or in the case of the French, they were just offended and didn’t want to play the role" - such as J.P. Manoux as a French mime and Fred Armisen as a groping Italian.<ref name=cracked/>
Originally, the Vatican sequence had Mieke not caring about Scott's efforts in meeting her to subvert the typical romantic comedy conclusion. Even if they eventually got together in the later scene where she becomes his roommate, test audiences reacted negatively, so during reshoots the directors replaced it with the scene of both having sex in a confessional booth. Post-production had DreamWorks executives frustrated at the content, eventually conceiving the title change from ''Ugly Americans'' to ''EuroTrip'' to lure in fans of ''Road Trip'', ironically getting backlash from said film's director Todd Phillips. To ensure a high score at the final test screening that would allow its release, the directors invited "anyone we knew who was younger than us and wasn’t in the [film] business", including ''Harvard Lampoon'' writers, and asked some of the men to mark in the post-screening query that they were women to improve the score in said demographic.<ref name=cracked/>
==Release and reception==
===Critical response=== Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives ''EuroTrip'' a 46% rating based on 119 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=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eurotrip/| title=Eurotrip| website=Rotten Tomatoes| access-date=March 10, 2025| 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'', 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>
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>
===Box office=== 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 $4.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $22.6 million.<ref name="boxmojo">{{cite web |title=Eurotrip (2004) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://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>
===Home media {{Anchor|DVD|DVD Release}}=== The film was released on DVD in the United States on June 1, 2004, by DreamWorks Home Entertainment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/eurotrip-dvd/|title=DVD Review: Jeff Schaffer's Eurotrip on DreamWorks Home Entertainment|first=Joe McGovern, Ed|last=Gonzalez|date=May 28, 2004|website=Slant Magazine}}</ref> It came in both an R-rated theatrical version (90 minutes) and an "Unrated" extended version (92 minutes). The Unrated version featured stronger nudity, including shots of men's bare penises at a nudist beach, and a scene in a hot tub where a woman's bare-naked breasts are rubbed.
In February 2006, Viacom (now known as Paramount Skydance) acquired the rights to ''EuroTrip'' and all 58 other live-action films DreamWorks had released since 1997, following its $1.6 billion acquisition of the studio's live-action film and television library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-02-02/paramount-dreamworks-deal-finalised/790778|title=Paramount-Dreamworks deal finalised|work=ABC News |date=February 2, 2006|via=www.abc.net.au}}</ref><ref name="arc">{{Cite web|url=http://www.paramount.com/studio/library/complete-library|title=Complete Library | Theatrical Library | Paramount Pictures|website=www.paramount.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222052623/http://www.paramount.com/studio/library/complete-library |archive-date=February 22, 2012 }}</ref><ref>Copyright notice in the credits for ''EuroTrip'', 2004.</ref> The deal included the rights to ''Road Trip'', which were also held by DreamWorks prior to 2006.<ref name="arc"/> The theatrical version of ''EuroTrip'' was released on Blu-ray in 2013. The Unrated extended edition was released on Blu-ray by Paramount Home Entertainment in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/EuroTrip-Blu-ray/298032/|title=EuroTrip Blu-ray (Unrated)|via=www.blu-ray.com}}</ref> The film was made available on Paramount's subscription streaming service Paramount+, which launched in 2021, in addition to being made available on their free streaming service Pluto TV.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.techradar.com/streaming/paramount-plus/everything-new-on-paramount-in-june-2025-including-over-80-new-movies-to-add-to-your-watchlist|title=Everything new on Paramount+ in June 2025 – including over 80 new movies to add to your watchlist|author1=Rowan Davies|date=May 31, 2025|website=TechRadar}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/eurotrip-streaming-pluto-tv.html|title=The Most Underrated Comedy Of The Last 20 Years Is Streaming For Free|first=Jonathan|last=Klotz|date=March 14, 2025}}</ref> The version on streaming services is the theatrical cut rather than the Unrated version.<ref name="auto"/>
===Legacy=== 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.{{efn|Multiple references, including:{{r|ryan20180817}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=VanHooker |first=Brian |date=2024-02-20 |title=An Oral History of the Cult Classic 'EuroTrip' |url=https://www.cracked.com/article_41190_an-oral-history-of-the-cult-classic-eurotrip.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Cracked.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=10 things you may not know about 'Eurotrip' |url=https://ew.com/article/2014/02/21/eurotrip-10th-anniversary/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=2018-08-17 |title=Matt Damon's Legendary 'Scotty Doesn't Know' Scene From 'EuroTrip' Actually Saved a Woman From a Coma |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/matt-damon-scotty-doesnt-know-eurotrip-woman-coma-1201995785/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=2025-02-26 |title=Michelle Trachtenberg, 'Gossip Girl' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Star, Dies at 39 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-gossip-girl-buffy-actress-1236147825/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>}} 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=usurped }}</ref>
Matt 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.{{r|ryan20180817}}
==Soundtrack== A soundtrack album for the film was released on February 24, 2004.<ref name="am">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/eurotrip-mw0000329070|title=Eurotrip - Original Soundtrack | Album | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> ''Road Trip'' had its soundtrack handled by DreamWorks' own label DreamWorks Records, although this album was instead handled by soundtrack specialty label Milan Records. DreamWorks Records had been sold to Universal Music Group in November 2003 for $100 million, and would be shut down by 2005.<ref name="billboard1">{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/68395/umg-to-acquire-dreamworks-records |title=UMG To Acquire DreamWorks Records |publisher=Billboard |date=2013-08-17 |access-date=2013-09-15}}</ref> {{Infobox album | name = Eurotrip | type = soundtrack | artist = various artists | cover = | alt = | released = February 24, 2004 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = * Punk rock * pop | length = | label = Milan | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="am"/> }}
===Album track listing=== <!-- see Template:Track listing to improve this section --> # "Scotty Doesn't Know" – Lustra # "My Generation" – Chapeaumelon (The Who cover) # "Wild One" – Wakefield # "99 Red Balloons" – Goldfinger (Nena cover) # "In the City" – The Jam # "Ça Plane Pour Moi" - Plastic Bertrand # "Shooting Stars" – Cauterize # "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" – 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 # "Get Loose" – The Salads # "England 5, Germany 1" – The Business # "Guinness Boys" – The Business # "9 to 5 (Morning Train)" – Sheena Easton
==See also== * ''National Lampoon's European Vacation'' (1985)
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==References== {{Reflist}}
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