A showcase for two performers who bring a sense of humor and rumination to the gorgeous scenery on display, the outcome proves deceivingly simple and yet one of the funniest films of recent memory.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2023

I enjoyed The Trip, but I will have to watch it again after a few more Netflixed movies (including Shandy), and see if it might lift this merely funny comedy into something more.

| Mar 24, 2021

Clever road-trip comedy has swearing, drugs, sex references.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2020

Told through the comedic eyes of Coogan and Brydon, The Trip is deliciously illuminating...and funny.

| Nov 16, 2019

Viewers feel like a fly on the wall -- or a third seat at the table -- listening to two witty, amusing men intent on one-upping each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 8, 2019

A wry, touching and often funny study of friendship and fame. All in all, it's a beautifully judged and original piece of comedy.

| Jul 18, 2018

Now, in a way, The Trip is terribly up to date. Now, in a way, The Trip is terribly up to date. The Trip harks back to when movies, still not far removed from vaudeville, showcased stars who were able to do acts...

| May 17, 2018

The Trip will undoubtedly stand out as one of the best of the year.

| Oct 24, 2017

Now knitted into a feature-length movie, the relationship between [Rob] Brydon and [Steve] Coogan-mostly just bickering-reveals itself with an easy, deft grace.

| Aug 25, 2017

...a foodie movie and a travelogue that happens to be hosted by two amusing buffoons.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2017

The illusion of spontaneous interplay between Coogan and Brydon is faultless; the progression of the tour seems to happen on its own, as if Winterbottom's camera were just riding along.

| Jul 18, 2016

"The Trip" just seems forced without ever reaching the sort of cathartic climax it approximates.

| Oct 7, 2015

Line for line, insult for insult, The Trip is the year's most addictively quotable movie.

| Aug 5, 2015

A couple of hams served up with just the right blend of vinegar and spice to tantalize even the most discriminating palate.

| Original Score: A- | May 26, 2013

Part road-movie, part restaurant-review, 100% hilarious.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2013

Bleakly rolling moors and stiff-chinned restaurants bring a chilly tone to this austere, investigative, self-reflexive, and yet somehow rollicking comedy...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 17, 2011

Not big on plot or story so there are slow patches, but the interaction of Brydon and Coogan makes this more worthwhile, if less informative, than any number of food-travel shows.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2011

I expected 'The Trip' to be funny, but I didn't expect it to be one of the year's most beautiful films, thanks to cinematographer Ben Smithard's stunning landscape shots -- it's like the 'Days of Heaven' of Brit impressionist movies

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2011

A funny and intelligent buddy movie about two men with similar talents but different personalities, traipsing across fog-shrouded northern England on a wild-goose chase.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2011

Has some funny moments when the boys engage in one-upmanship and serve up their droll Brit humor.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2011