Movie_Muse_Reviews If you've come along for the other "Trips" with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, you clearly know what you're in for and what you want out of "The Trip to Spain," the third installment of the British TV mini-series cut into a feature-length film about two middle-aged friends on a food tour for a magazine."Spain" does not mess with the formula. We get all the impersonations, stunning vistas, food porn, literature/poetry references, etc. that we signed up for. The only thing that has changed are where these fictional versions of Steve and Rob are in terms of life stage and how they're dealing with their newly entered 50s in both their careers and personal lives. If anything, the chemistry between Coogan and Brydon (and director Michael Winterbottom) has only gotten stronger. They're able to devise hilarious bits on the fly even more naturally than before. Unlike "The Trip" and "The Trip to Italy," almost no drama unfolds during the course of the film. Steve and Rob's never-ending game of one-upsmanship is what largely keeps this film afloat, though they each do deal independently with struggles regarding love and family.As such, "Spain" ends up filling in the portraits of these two friends and their lives with more details, as if the painting was sketched out in "The Trip" and started to be filled in in "Italy." With just about everything else in this movie remaining a constant, we're able to spend more time looking more closely at those details - and by the same token, Winterbottom can add more nuance. The depiction of Steve as Don Quixote and Rob as Sancho Panza creates a solid focal point to better examine these characters, who it turns out are quite like their respective Cervantes creations.So little about "The Trip" films could be considered mainstream that it feels odd to describe them as cinematic comfort food, but to the set of tastes that have taken to them so far, they are exactly that. The sense of humor, their dynamic and Winterbottom's naturalist approach are so reliable that even with minimal changes from film to film, the series ages well. "Italy" initially felt like a retread, but "Spain" feels like an improvement just by virtue of time, all of its elements and flavors improving and congealing with patience and experience. All this makes the film's twist ending that much more unexpected. Suddenly there's a hint of plot continuity and it's as though we have no idea what to do with it. How the series proceeds will mean everything, but for now it's just a dash of mystery in an otherwise familiar and enjoyable film.~Steven CThanks for reading! Visit Movie Muse Reviews for more

astrobit1979 I enjoyed watching the 3rd movie with these 2 friends traveling through European countries (so far), but I might say I enjoyed more "The Trip to Italy" maybe because Italy is not so arid like Spain or maybe because "The Trip to Italy" was more spontaneous and had a bit more action. I rated the movie with an 8 because I liked the city views, landscapes and the posh restaurants where they were eating, one of them writing restaurant reviews. Shortly it was a nice relaxing movie about Spain's culture and food, even though in my view their conversations (sitting in various fancy restaurants) have a lot of cultural subjects, which are nice, but a bit too embellished of too much information. I mean the conversations are a bit too much for the regular, average man who's watching the movie. But maybe the movie is targeting a much more fancy or intellectual public. But even though I liked more the second part (The Trip to Italy), the film is taking you to the wonderful places of Spain so it's like a little getaway or break from the normal or maybe monotonous everyday's life which we live daily. Maybe in a couple of years we will see a fourth part, who knows where, but wouldn't be just nice to put more spices on the script, or add more red wine, just to give the film a bit of better flavor, to make it better or tastier than this last film "The Trip to Spain" which was great but not perfect. The food is great in every movie, the wine is tasty, conversations are nice and interesting, the traveling is also amazing, so I recommend all 3 movies as worth to be watching.

diver-159-400352 It was the best of them, it was the worst of them. The Trip was great and the follow up too, but this is just much much more of the same without the charm of the earlier 2 series. Im not sure if it is the film format that makes it annoying, but Coogan and Brydon just really start to grate on you by about the end of the first hour.

Karlz Despite the sense of underlying sadness, the relentless banter and impersonations keep us entertained. This time around we get brilliant impersonations of Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Mick Jagger, Michael Caine (and we can't forget the impersonation of Mick Jagger IMPERSONATING Michael Caine). All the while amongst this; a delicious serving of fine foods, close-up shots of delectable seafood being seared and steamed on backdrops of tranquil towns and villages in Spain.A lighthearted comedy, though a lesser version of the previous two in the trio with an odd ending!