Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
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I haven't seen the other "Trip" movies by these guys, but I can promise you that I never will. This was the worst film I have seen in quite sometime. I hate leaving negative reviews because I understand the amount of work, planning, effort and money that goes into a project from pre to post production. However, how did someone not tell these dudes they are just not funny along the way? This was PAINFUL to watch. I really have a hard time understanding how these two sitting across form each other and blabbering about nothing and making terrible impersonations of (who?) is enjoyable in the slightest. I have seen Coogan be funny, this was far from it. If this type of "comedy"is your thing I am glad you enjoyed it. But the room full of people I watched this with slowly evacuated until the last man standing had the superb idea of putting on something watchable.
I liked the two previous Trip movies, but they had something more than two comedians riffing off each other in exotic locations, they had some personal connection. While Trip to Spain uses the exact same formula, it lacks anything that makes me relate to the characters. It shows them having midlife drama with agents leaving or chasing them, but that's about their job, not their life. And the additional one with the son of Coogan feels artificial, as it doesn't really affect the overall story. What I would have liked was to see the relationship between the two characters evolve, but in fact it stays exactly the same. The depiction of Spain is even more sketchy than in the other two movies, which is saying something and they are over 50. Instead of glamorous actors that seduce women in European tourist traps, they turn into the two old Muppets! I hope there is some evolution in the next film, if there will be any, because even the jokes were duplicated from previous movies.
Excellent continuation of "The Trip" (in England) and "The Trip to Italy" and at the height of the first, which was undoubtedly the best. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon make a gastronomic program on TV visiting restaurants that was extended in the cinema and now we are going for the third installment, all directed by that irregular genius that is Winterbottom. If you like British actors and appreciate a good impersonation, this is your film because improvisations based on rivalry between the two comedians, rather than what they eat, is the main course of their meals so that what was initially a gastronomic program has become humorous movies about both talents. I know there are people who don't like these movies very much. They've hooked up with me and now I'm an unconditional fan of both of them. I laugh out loud with their imitations of Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, Robert de Niro, Marlon Brando, Roger Moore or Anthony Hopkins. I can't help myself. Must be my weakness for British humor. As I live in Spain I have to add that the images of the landscapes and the choice of sites is different from the usual tourist guide, which is to be thanked specially for the number of topics that are handled talking about this country. A failure is perhaps how unbelievable the complementary stories are (families, loves, jobs) and I think it would be a good idea to talk more about food, restaurants, flavors, because that's supposed to be the very object of the trip, to do a gastronomic chronicle. It is a pity that they have missed the opportunity to do so in Spain, which is by far the best country I have ever eaten in my entire life.
i live in spain. if i ever see that range rover heading in my direction i'll try to be out. who watches the full length of this crap?. they cant even be funny reading from a supplied script. how many times do the y do the same me English you jane scene before they realise ITS NOT FUNNY. truly madly deeply......awful. worse than awful, its boring