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Directed by Michael Winterbottom

Eat, drink and try not to kill each other

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

Steve Coogan Rob Brydon Claire Keelan Margo Stilley Paul Popplewell Rebecca Johnson Dolya Gavanski Kerry Shale Bernard Gallagher Ben Stiller Marta Barrio Elodie Harrod Justin Edwards Anna Stockton Jeronime Palmer Rita Davies Mike Balderstone Merce Ribot Ann B. O'Brien Timothy Leach

Director Director

Michael Winterbottom

Producers Producers

Melissa Parmenter Anthony Wilcox Andrew Eaton

Writer Writer

Casting casting.

Shaheen Baig

Editors Editors

Paul Monaghan Mags Arnold

Cinematography Cinematography

Ben Smithard

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Henry Normal Simon Lupton

Composer Composer

Michael Nyman

Costume Design Costume Design

Revolution Films BBC Baby Cow Productions Arbie

Releases by Date

07 sep 2010, 26 nov 2010, theatrical limited, 10 jun 2011, 24 apr 2011, 04 jun 2011, 23 jun 2011, 20 jul 2011, 05 aug 2011, 24 may 2013, 17 nov 2015, releases by country.

Theatrical MA15+
Premiere Toronto International Film Festival

Netherlands

South korea.

Theatrical 15
Premiere 7 Stockholm International Film Festival
Theatrical 7
Theatrical limited NR

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Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 13

I can't even tell you how many times that I've said, "come, come, Mr. Bond," since seeing this movie. It's actually kind of sad.

Review by liam f ★★★½

the Before Trilogy could never

Review by grace spelman

sorry but these are my boys. they’re just my two guys. it’s as simple as that. and doing silly voices can be integral to a certain type of friendship

Review by The Reel House ★★★½ 1

“I’d rather have moments of genius than.... a lifetime of mediocrity.”

“The Trip” is about two British comedians eating lunch, eating dinner, driving around and arguing. It is also one of the most extremely enjoyable films under 100 minutes.

The film itself is hilarious. There isn’t actually a credited writer for the film as the majority of the film is actually full improvisation between Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.

I’m a huge fan of films or tv show where the performers actually play heightened versions of their real life counterparts. “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “This is the End” and “New Nightmare” are all great examples of this. “The Trip” utilises this trope by casting Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing over…

Review by Diego Tutweiller ★★★½

Come come, Mr. Bond... you derive just as much pleasure from pointless yet witty banter as I do.

Review by Sarah Jane 🔪 ★★★½ 7

Is it weird to have a crush on Steve Coogan?

It can't be as weird as having one on Rob Brydon, surely.

Review by Jake Cole ★★★½

Brydon totally steals this from Coogan, who is, as ever, great, but is playing up his usual sadsack celebrity routine while Brydon emerges as the childlike and childish cad who lives to brighten up a situation, even if the thought of being trapped in a room with him as he launches into a blizzard of impressions to fill silence can be terrifying. The Caine bit is an instant classic, but I'm also taken with Coogan imperiously scoring an idyllic country ride to Joy Division's "Atmosphere," or Coogan officiously explaining a natural valley formation as Brydon insists upon simply admiring it, then Coogan being irritated by an even more explanatory gent who one-ups his Wikipedia'd knowledge.

Review by Dave Horwitz ★★★½

If regular people were this good at doing bits, doing bits wouldn’t get such a bad rap.

Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★★ 3

“Death is but a moment, cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.”

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play somewhat alternate versions of themselves in this film based on their TV series of the same name which was also directed by Michael Winterbottom. About 70 minutes have been cut off from the series to fit the film format, but the flow of the story doesn't seem to be affected by it. The Trip is a fun ride which banks on the strong chemistry between Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon while also exploiting the gorgeous landscape of Northern England. The script is mostly improvised and the funniest moments are when Coogan and Brydon are competing over who can imitate Michael Caine better. They…

Review by Matthew Buchanan ★★★½ 3

If you’ve come across this at all, it is probably via the “duelling Michael Caines” clip which was a hit on YouTube . This feature, which began life as a short television series, is the extended remix of that clip.

Serial funny men Coogan and Brydon take a largely unscripted restaurant tour through England’s north, as an assignment for The Observer . Their improvised antics are punctuated by sprawling country landscapes (mostly while Coogan searches for cell coverage) and glorious food cinematography as the camera benignly observes the cooking process in the kitchens of their various destinations.

There’s a sweet, revealing undercurrent here of the real relationship between these two, and of the grass-is-greener, single vs spoken-for dynamic that underpins what little narrative the film offers.

Review by A. J. Black ★★★★ 3

On paper, The Trip sounds a horribly pretentious indulgence waiting to happen, doesn't it? Take two well known, loved and respected comedians--in this case Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon--playing themselves and follow them on a voyage across the picturesque North of England as they dine in lots of posh restaurants, swanky country hotels, drink gallons of wine & loaf about while the rest of us have to work hard - directed no less by Michael Winterbottom, who's about as 'art house' a British auteur as you can find. Have you been sick in your mouth yet? Well have no fear, because in actual fact The Trip turns out to a frequently hilarious, often quite irreverent, sly witted and even melancholic exploration of…

Review by Mads Ej ★★ 2

This is a comedy about fictional versions of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon going on a trip in northern England, where they visit a bunch of fancy restaurants and just sit and talk. At first it was kinda cozy, but it soon became very tiresome as it didn’t really have a story and their conversations were mostly boring and meaningless. The movie had small bits of drama sprinkled in, but it was kinda in the background and it never felt important and didn’t really seem to affect the characters either. The movie had some funny lines and bits of good comedy, but they often dragged the jokes on for so long that it became cringey or just painfully unfunny. The…

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