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• The Trip

  Kashif Ahmed 15 December 2010

  

  Jobbing actor Steve Coogan embarks upon a series of restaurant reviews with friend and erstwhile collaborator Rob Brydon, in 'The Trip': A hilarious, hyper real, six-part comedy that takes in the wonders of rural England whilst poking fun at the foibles and insecurities of its egotistical protagonist.
  
  Coogan plays himself with an air of conceit and revels in scenes of self-reflexive, self-parody with digs at his well documented love life and stalled movie career: "You just need one film, Steve" implores his agent, "I've done 10!" comes the exasperated reply.
  
  Rob Brydon also readily takes the p*** of out himself as a talented, but irritatingly repetitive, impressionist (fans of the duos well known, excellent impersonations of Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Al Pacino and others are in for a treat) with Coogan berating Brydon's family man persona and middle-of-the-road routines: "You can't go through life like you're on a Radio 4 panel show", he bemoans.
  
  Director Michael Winterbottom, who last worked with the pair on 'Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story' (2005), pretty much covers the same ground here. Directs from a distance, lets the material speak for itself and leaves it up to his stars to cut loose on camera...and by cut loose, we're not talking action here; just one liners, pathos and consistently amusing dialogue. 'The Trip' is better paced than 'Tristan Shandy...' and is definitely worth seeing for fans of the old Steve Coogan.

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Michael Winterbottom directs this BBC comedy following Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they tour the north of England, sampling the best restaurants of Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Lake District. Fiction and reality blur as the two comedians play darker and more desperate embellishments of themselves. Gorging themselves on ever more elaborate dishes in the North's fanciest restaurants, they ruminate on masculinity, identity, love, relationships, ageing, fame and the nature of success - not to mention who can do the best impersonation of Michael Caine.

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite with their COCK AND BULL STORY director, Michael Winterbottom, for this fictional series based around their own personas. In THE TRIP, Coogan is charged with the task of writing a food supplement for a Sunday paper. Though he intended to turn his tour of eateries in Britain's north into a jolly with his American girlfriend, he soon has to alter plans when she leaves him and returns to the US. Reluctantly Coogan turns to Brydon and the pair set off on an existential quest and comedy is never far behind...