Synopsis:Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reprise their roles from Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story for this tale of a restaurant critic who reluctantly invites his obnoxious best friend on a business trip through the English countryside. Tapped by ~The Observer to review fine restaurants throughout the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, Steve (Coogan) finds himself without a traveling companion after his girlfriend decides not to go at the last minute. After being turned down by everyone he knows, Steve extends an invitation to Rob (Brydon), and together the pair attempts to navigate the winding back roads of rural England, impersonating popular celebrities and bickering endlessly along the way.
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By Sam Morgan , Hollywood.com Staff | Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Trip suffers and revels in this. Cobbled together from a television show of the same name, the film, directed by Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me), follows real-life British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves on a road trip through Northern England. I imagine they took the highlights of the show and stitched them together to make this feature and you can see the similarities when they start riffing. Mostly improvised, the comedic bits are fantastic and a fine example of British humor. But then they go out into the countryside and there are long shots of the landscapes and rolling hills. Beautiful country, don’t get me wrong, but I kept waiting for the funny stuff to come around again. Then things start getting real when Coogan becomes self-conscious about his career not being where he wanted it to be and his little flings with the wait staff he meets along the way. With the improvised dialogue and the fact that they’re playing themselves, it feels like you’re invading their actual road trip. The fights seem just as real as the laughs they bring each other to.
But hey, that’s exactly like a real road trip. You learn a lot more than you ever thought you would about your traveling partner, and when it's all said and done all you can remember are the highlights. The other boring stuff slips out of mind, or at least becomes easy to overlook. A good trip, if I do say so myself.
Cast And Crew
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon,Claire Keelan,Margo Stilley,Rebecca Johnson,Dolya Gavanski,Kerry Shale,Paul Popplewell And Others
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Release Date: 06/10/2011
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 107 min
Genre: Comedy
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Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 10 June 2011 (USA)
Also Known As: To taxidi
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