The casual, improvised, doesn't-matter quality of "The Trip" can't quite conceal how brilliant it is.

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The Trip looks like a lark — and is — yet there's a sneaky resonance to the way it celebrates what acting means to these two rogue cutups.

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In the long history of man's need to battle with and dominate his fellow men, is there any competition so intense as two funny guys trying to impress each other?

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In contrast to Roger Corman’s 1967 freakout, “The Trip,” no hallucinogens are harmed in the Michael Winterbottom comedy of the same title, a British road movie laced with lacerating laughs and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.

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A road comedy ambles, unexpectedly, into the land of desperation.

The Trip is a tale of middle-aged men, both successful but lacking in contentment, stranded in a pastoral landscape that mocks them with its permanence.

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Two Guys On A Road Trip, Racking Up Comic Mileage

These guys are a hoot, and The Trip is a trip and a half.

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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Explore the Meaning of Life, and Duckfat Lollies, in The Trip

In the early moments of The Trip, you wonder if either actor will survive the enterprise.

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“The Trip” unfolds in a clean, episodic fashion, mainly because it originally took the form of a six-episode mini-series that aired on BBC Two.

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Comic actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are a hilarious duo in this dry British comedy, 'The Trip.'

The odyssey goes on a bit too long, and I suppose a taste for extra dry British comedy is a requirement, but this “Trip” is well worth one.

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Men v. Food: On the Road With Steve and Rob in The Trip

Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised by funnymen Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing versions of themselves, under the direction of Michael Winterbottom.

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Director Michael Winterbottom clearly delights in shooting some spectacular British scenery and really does get the best out of the comedy pair.

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'The Trip' review: Smart and side-splittingly funny

It's a daring concept, since the entire movie rests on the bickering, fraternal chemistry between them.

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Steve Coogan and comic partner Rob Brydon riff on life and rib each other while traveling the English countryside.

their travels and squabbles are great fun to watch, the countryside is bucolic, the food mouthwatering. You just wouldn't want to go on a real road trip with them.

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It's an understated work of real quality from a team that really understand the medium

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The Trip edges toward some quietly profound conclusions on the meaning of success and the value of friendship.

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The Trip is a fine, funny movie. But there’s no reason why it couldn’t have been even finer and funnier.

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Goofy English comedians on the road kill

The film, condensed from a popular TV series by director Michael Winterbottom, is meant to appear to be an entirely improvised documentary.

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The Trip is a journey well worth taking.

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But far more revealing is a later scene when the leading men visit Coogan's (presumably fictional) parents, the two still going hard at their shtick.

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The project suffers badly from being largely improvised as the pair fall back on familiar impressions and old jokes.

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