Release Date: 10 June 2011
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Margo Stilley
Directors: Michael Winterbottom
Studio: IFC Films
Movie Review
Playing loose versions of themselves, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are funny and work well together.
Comic actor Steve Coogan agrees to accompany his girlfriend on an assignment to visit and review fine restaurants in the north of England. With �The Trip, he crosses �My Dinner with Andre,� �Sideways� and �Local Hero� and effortlessly juggles the essence of these fine films. The Trip, the television program, is a poignant, rambling, beautiful little series, starring comedians Steve Coogan
and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves.
How much you enjoy this picture will depend entirely on how much you like these two actors. It's all them, doing their schtick, and a bit of a retread on the "behind-the-scenes" moments from the far more innovative Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. The Trip is very much an improvised picture, replete with all the magical moments and "well, this is dying" hardships a film like that implies.
Pithy, clever and highly enjoyable, in that snarky British humor kind of way.
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