{"id":2405,"date":"2011-06-30T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:31:46","slug":"the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/the-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Film (2010)<br \/>\nDirected by Michael Winterbottom<br \/>\nEdited by Mags Arnold and Paul Monaghan<br \/>\nMusic by Michael Nyman<\/p>\n<p>With Steve Coogan (Steve), Rob Brydon (Rob), Claire Keelan (Emma), Margo Stilley (Mischa), Rebecca Johnson (Sally), Dolya Gavanski (Magda) and Kerry Shale (Steve\u2019s United States Agent)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/market\/Boston\/KendallSquareCinema.htm\">Kendall Square Cinema<\/a><br \/>\nCambridge, MA <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysEating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysEating.jpg\" alt=\"Two Guys Eating\" title=\"TheTrip_TwoGuysEating\" width=\"400\" height=\"205\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysEating.jpg 400w, https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysEating-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 1.4em; background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 1.4;\"><strong>An English buddy movie that features dueling impersonations of great actors carried out over a sequence of gourmet meals.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The buddy movie has become a standard genre, but, pulled off in an offbeat way, it can yield fun and interesting results. <em>Sideways <\/em>(2004) with Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church is a prime example of a recent successful one.<\/p>\n<p>Here, quite entertaining at times, is a buddy movie set in England, with two manic actors traveling around going to gourmet restaurants. They &#8211; Steve (Steve Coogan) and Rob (Rob Brydon) &#8211; are in a continual attempt to outdo one another with celebrity actor impersonations, which sometimes produces very funny results. They are obsessed with Michael Caine and Sean Connery and a good amount of time goes towards their refinements on those impressions. Though generally funny, the constant singularity of competing impressions eventually gets a tad wearing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysFencing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysFencing.jpg\" alt=\"Two Fencers\" title=\"TheTrip_TwoGuysFencing\" width=\"400\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysFencing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheTrip_TwoGuysFencing-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a more serious undertone to the narrative about the incapacity of one of the characters to form intimate relationships. It feels a bit weighty, given the comic drive of the rest of the film, and seems sort of pasted onto the continual goofing.  Obviously meant to provide counter ballast to the manic competition, it does not quite keep the boat moving forward, seeming to function more like a sea anchor than a keel. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; BADMan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film (2010) Directed by Michael Winterbottom Edited by Mags Arnold and Paul Monaghan Music by Michael Nyman With Steve Coogan (Steve), Rob Brydon (Rob), Claire Keelan (Emma), Margo Stilley (Mischa), Rebecca Johnson (Sally), Dolya Gavanski (Magda) and Kerry Shale (Steve\u2019s United States Agent) Kendall Square Cinema Cambridge, MA An English buddy movie that features dueling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-movies","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}