EuroTrip
Short description
EuroTrip follows Scott Thomas, an American high school graduate who has been exchanging emails in German with a pen pal in Berlin. He assumes his correspondent is a young man, and when the truth comes out that she is a woman, he has already offended her badly. With contact apparently cut off, Scott and his friend Cooper, along with the twins Jenny and Jamie, set out across Europe in the hope of reaching Berlin and meeting her.
The comedy was released in 2004 and runs 92 minutes. Jeff Schaffer directed together with David Mandel and Alec Berg, and the three also wrote the screenplay. Scott Mechlowicz plays Scott, with Jacob Pitts as Cooper, Michelle Trachtenberg and Travis Wester as the twins, and Vinnie Jones and Lucy Lawless in supporting roles. Produced by DreamWorks Pictures with The Montecito Picture Company, Stillking Films and Blue Sea Productions, the film was made for about 25 million dollars and took roughly 21 million dollars worldwide.
Audience response has been warmer than critical response. On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from around 243,000 votes, and on TMDB it also sits at 6.6 from about 3,094 votes, while the critics' rating stands lower, at 5.4 from 117 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming of the picture began on May 5, 2003, in Prague, lasted 10 weeks, and ended in mid-July.
- The beer kegs at the graduation party were actually filled with beer. According to the film's directors, Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, and David Mandel, during the filming of the scene with Cooper, Jacob Pitts was genuinely drunk after the bathtub incident.
- 95% of the film was shot in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Using image compositing, views of entire streets, as well as Big Ben (the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster) and other European landmarks, were included in the film.
- During the filming of the first take with Michelle Trachtenberg in a bikini, she shook her head so vigorously that she became dizzy and the actress fell.
- The working title of the film was “Ugly Americans,” but due to events in Iraq, the title was considered too provocative. Several other titles were then considered, such as “A Fistful of Euros,” “Europe on $07 a Day,” “Going Abroad,” “Road Trip: Let’s Go Europe!,” “Scott Does Europe,” and “What a Frau Wants.” But they settled on the short title “Eurotrip.”
- During the filming of the nudity scene on the beach, Jacob Pitts wasn’t in a hurry to put his shorts back on because he really enjoyed how uncomfortable everyone else felt.
- When Scotty reads the letter from Mieke, he looks up the word “zussamen” in the dictionary. But the word is not in the text, and when the camera shows a close-up of the letter, the word appears.
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