Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Trip to Greece, 2020, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan



Has it really been ten years? They mention this in the movie. Odysseus took ten years to get where it was he was going, and it was ten years ago that they made the first The Trip TV series edited into a feature film.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on a tour of restaurants and write about the food. They do a lot of impressions.

I don't know how I feel about it. It's food I would never eat and all the driving looks exhausting.

They refer to the movies Coogan has appeared in, The Dinner (2017) with Richard Gere and Stan and Ollie (2018). Coogan reads a review on his smart phone praising his performance. He played Stan Laurel as likable, it said, even though Coogan himself is "a self-regarding ass".

I googled it. It was real, a review from The Independent.

Rob Brydon's a nice again in this one and Steve Coogan is less annoyed and actually amused by him.
I don't know if Coogan and Brydon did their own stunts. They didn't mention stunt doubles on IMDb. There was some diving and they swim way out there. They seem like regular guys, but they're better than us both physically and intellectually.

Free on Hulu, or you can pay to see in Amazon.

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