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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3602668, member: 2504"] The Trip (2010) - Just watched this movie this weekend. It is a sort of mockumentary directed by Michael Winterbottom, and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as some sort of versions of themselves. Coogan and Brydon go on a week long restaurant tour of northern England. In addition to watching some scrumptious food preparation and presentation, you get to witness same beautiful scenery and much interesting and clever conversation involving Coogan and/or Brydon. A bunch of the conversation involves a sort of a dueling series of vocal impressions of other actors, most memorably involving Michael Caine and Sean Connery, among others. Definitely some good funny stuff here, not a great film but I rather enjoyed it. There is no real plot here other than the interplay that ensues. The film rests totally on the appeal of the two actors involved. This film was initially a six part British television series that was edited into this film. Three sequels involving Winterbottom, Coogan and Brydon ensued after the initial success of the first project. The second in the series is “The Trip to Italy”, which takes the initial concept to mainland Europe. I enjoyed the first film enough that eventually I will get around to the Italy film, and we’ll see where that one takes us. [/QUOTE]