The Trip to Spain (2017)

Actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Europe. This time they're in Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way.

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Stars:

Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Marta Barrio

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Steve Coogan	...	Steve
Rob Brydon	...	Rob
Marta Barrio	...	Yolanda
Claire Keelan	...	Emma
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Clegg	...	Busker
Justin Edwards	...	UK Agent
Rebecca Johnson	...	Sally (Rob's Wife)
Timothy Leach	...	Joe
Kerry Shale	...	Matt
Kyle Soller	...	Jonathan
Margo Stilley	...	Mischa

Storyline

Actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Europe. This time they're in Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way.

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Plot Keywords:

spain | restaurant critic | restaurant review | skype | dinner conversation | 

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Taglines:

Rob and Steve are back. Six meals in six different places on a road trip through Spain from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean coast - visiting Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile La Mancha and ending in Andalucia.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

11 August 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Viagem a Espanha

Filming Locations:

Spain

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$40,875, 13 August 2017, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,157,604, 26 October 2017

Company Credits

Production Co:

Revolution Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min (IFC library print)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon talk about the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" by Noel Harrison and it is played at the film's ending. A different version of this song by The King's Singers was played at the end of the final episode of I'm Alan Partridge (1997), where Alan goes to see the unsold copies of his autobiography being pulped.

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Goofs

Steve says while at lunch that a version of 12 Years a Slave was made by HBO "about ten years ago". No such version exists but PBS did make a version in 1984 entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey.

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Quotes

Rob: Do you know what the Welsh word for "Carrot" is?
Steve: No
Rob: Moron

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Connections

References Midsomer Murders (1997)

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Soundtracks

Windmills of Your Mind
performed by Noel Harrison

User Reviews

Third in a series. Doesn't hit on all cylinders but when it does, it's great

This is the third movie in a series of road trips by funny man Steve Coogan and his sidekick Rob Brydon. I still recall the second movie, "The Trip to Italy," which shares the same premise: two semi-famous British entertainers eat their way through a country while entertaining each other with scripted and improvisational banter and comedy. "The Trip to Spain" echoes the last movie except the scenes are in Spain and the language being spoken is Spanish.

It seems to me that there's a lot more involvement with people playing Coogan's and Brydon's families and love interests in this third movie and for me, this pierces the bubble of the movie's conceit. Coogan calls his married lover in New York and a camera just happens to be there to capture her end of the call? If that part isn't unscripted, then the whole movie is scripted with perhaps some improvisation. So when Coogan and Brydon entertain each other with endless facts about the towns they're visiting, they're not being erudite, they're reciting scripted lines. Some of the overlong imitations of Marlon Brando, Mick Jagger, Sean Connery, and particularly Roger Moore--those are likely to be improvisational.

In all, this is a pleasant movie and the Spanish scenery and architecture steal the show and are probably worth the price of admission alone. The bit about food and reviewing restaurants seems muted and subdued in this film compared to the last one.

The ending however, deserves to live on the cutting room floor. (Again, that's my opinion.) I'll leave it to you to decide on that one.