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# The Trip (2010)
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2011/08/07/the-trip-2010/
- Published: 2011-08-07T12:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-29T19:20:48.000Z
- Description: The Trip, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, is surprisingly funny and really enjoyable.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Film

When I found out that the above clip is an excerpt from "The Trip", a six episode BBC television series directed by Michael Winterbottom, I had to watch the entire series. The series stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of their perceived personalities and follows them on a restaurant tour of northern England. They spend their time bickering and trying to outwit each other and doing impersonations of famous movie stars. On paper this may not sound like a winning premise for a television series, but in fact the entire series is really funny. Towards the end it also acquires a melancholic undertone. Some scenes, like the Michael Caine scene above, are instant classics. The landscape and the food also looks quite appealing.

The television series has been re-edited into [a movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9bPJmy68Rs&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) but I recommend watching the full series.