'The Trip To Greece' A Review

The Trip To Greece is a comedy, the latest in the Trip series with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, who play versions of themselves. The two visit Greece this time, retracing various stops on the Odyssey staying in nice hotels and eating wonderful food while bantering, doing impressions, and ruminating on age and mortality.

Coogan and Brydon show up again beautifully, even more comfortable and seemingly taking more pleasure out of each other, and finding even more fluidity and space in their improvisations and imitation-offs. They also dig deeper into their various issues they've established in the previous films. Coogan is clearly grappling with his mortality as a result of his advancing age and also his ailing father. Brydon continues to struggle with the push and pull of family life. It's very adult and subtle but also very honest and the existential/emotional issues never eclipse the comedy. It's not explosive but it is impressive.

After The Trip To Italy took the duo to a more exotic location and The Trip To Spain ended with a low-key crisis this, the fourth installment, falls into a certain formula but director Michael Winterbottom shows his same precision, clarity of vision, and patience which perfectly compliments the virtually unceasing comedy of Coogan and Brydon(also screenwriters) but also their understated but ever present pathos.

Not revelatory but an absolute pleasure. Here's to more Trips to come.

Available to rent on most VOD platforms.

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