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The Trip

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Food critic Steve Coogan and traveling companion Rob Brydon trade delicious barbs and clever remarks as they tour various eateries in northern England.
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Amiable, funny and sometimes insightful, The Trip works as both a showcase for the enduring chemistry between stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and an unexpected perusal of men entering mid-life crises.

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Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Terrific stuff. Rated: 4/5 Jul 15, 2011 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News The Trip is a comedy about two guys going to fancy restaurants in the English countryside. Sounds hilarious, huh? Well, it actually is. Rated: B+ Jul 8, 2011 Full Review Jim Schembri The Age (Australia) Fuelled by some inspired and very funny improvisations - their duelling Michael Caine impersonations are a scream - the film gradually settles into a meditation on mid-life malaise. Rated: 3/5 Jul 4, 2011 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review A showcase for two performers who bring a sense of humor and rumination to the gorgeous scenery on display, the outcome proves deceivingly simple and yet one of the funniest films of recent memory. Rated: 3.5/4 Mar 11, 2023 Full Review Jack Fleischer Battleship Pretension I enjoyed The Trip, but I will have to watch it again after a few more Netflixed movies (including Shandy), and see if it might lift this merely funny comedy into something more. Mar 24, 2021 Full Review Tom Cassidy Common Sense Media Clever road-trip comedy has swearing, drugs, sex references. Rated: 4/5 Apr 3, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Eithan D just mediocre, couldn't finish watching it Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/24/23 Full Review Audience Member So entertaining! I want more. Love the chats over meals Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/21/20 Full Review William L An infectious chemistry between Coogan and Brydon births some fantastic comedy; the timing pairs brilliantly with improv flavored dry humor, even if the film struggles at point to break through the episodic structure of the original series in establishing a consistent flow. (4/5) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/12/20 Full Review Audience Member Slow, tedious, and pointless. Anyone else in the backseat of the car on this road trip would have unceremoniously removed their brains from their head Pulp Fiction style. You know that guy who never stops doing annoying impressions. The person everyone wants to hit in the face with a shovel? Boost his level of annoying to 11 and then multiply him by two. Now sit through 3 meals a day with them over the course of a week. That's "The Trip" in a nutshell. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Rating: F Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Boring artsy movie that has Steve coogan. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I think Steve Coogan is a terrific actor. But, if he thought audiences would warm up to him after this self-indulgent snorefest, he's sadly mistaken. "The Trip" shows him to be a pathetic, narcisstic, wretch of a man, and interminably, terminally boring. Whether or not this is true is perhaps still up in the air, but as this is a "semi-autobiographical" piece, if even half of it is true, it's still not a good reflection on him. Oh, and did I mention this film is just plain unfunny? The plot centers around Coogan being hired to write a piece on touring restaurants/inns in the English countryside. As probably most people would rather be kidnapped by Hezbollah rather than be stuck in a car touring the bleak English countryside in the dead of winter with him (which includes his equally narcisstic American "girlfriend," who scrambled back to the States to escape his vortex of dull), he's reduced to asking Britain's answer to Rich Little, Rob Brydon, to tag along. The rest of the picture is a mishmash of high-end restaurant dinners, Brydon's Catskill-esque impressions, and Coogan's immensely boring life. And I don't know how he produced the piece he was hired for, as he never produces a notebook or laptop. It's as if the producer/writer didn't even care to try and adhere to the plot. There is perhaps one use for this snoozer: they should give it to hospices, because sitting through two hours of this dreck feels like years. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Food critic Steve Coogan and traveling companion Rob Brydon trade delicious barbs and clever remarks as they tour various eateries in northern England.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Producer
Andrew Eaton, Melissa Parmeter
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Baby Cow Productions, Revolution Films, BBC
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 10, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 12, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.0M
Runtime
1h 49m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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