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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Trip’ on Netflix, a Bleak Comedy That Elevates Marital Discord to a Bloody New Level

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Netflix’s The Trip is — well, I was going to give the usual spiel about it being a Norwegian black comedy-slash-thriller starring Noomi Rapace ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , Prometheus ) and directed by Tommy Wirkola of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters fame, but I’m just gonna cut to the chase and say it’s some sick shit. And as most sick shit goes, its smooth-as-guts-in-a-blender-set-on-puree mix of yucks and yuks is very much a take-it-or-leave-it affair.

THE TRIP : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: For some reason, The Trip doesn’t open with a crazy scene that’s on the precarious lip of a suspenseful cliff before flashing back to the beginning — it just opens at the beginning. How very novel! So, a husband and wife sit in bed arguing and the conversation gets pretty nutty and out there and, as we suspected, they’re just actors on the set of a soap opera. Lars (Aksel Hennie) is the director. He chitchats with a co-worker about how he and his wife are going up to the cabin this weekend and he stresses repeatedly how she wants to go on a long hike into the mountains, and isn’t that dangerous? On his way home, he stops to visit his dad at the nursing home so the old man can question his manhood. Then he goes to the hardware emporium for a hammer, a hacksaw, some rope and duct tape — you know, the Serial Killer Special, $49.95.

He picks up Lisa (Rapace), and the bickering starts immediately. Needling. Irritation. Teensy little digs. Death by 1,000 cuts on both sides. Their professional lives are lousy and the poison’s bled into their personal lives. They get to the cabin and as he unloads his collection of suspicious tools, the camera lingers on a cabinet full of shotguns, and as she mills about the kitchen, the camera gets a lensful of butcher and bread knives. Why? No reason. Just the usual stuff you’d find in a cabin in the Norwegian forest where you might go hunting and then need to cut up the animal you killed.

Lars and Lisa drive each other nuts cooking and eating dinner, and before bed they play a game of Scrabble that only further sledgehammers the wedge between them. The next day, we follow Lars as he fetches the hammer from the basement and heads to the kitchen for two belts of booze, and the camera angle for this shot is canted, oh so very canted. He sneaks up behind Lisa and before he can ballpeen a hole in her skull she quickly turns around and tases him. It’s probably safe to say that marital counseling would be pointless at this stage of their relationship.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: The War of the Røsens ! (Yeah, I know, Røsen is Swedish, not Norwegian. Just give me this one!)

Performance Worth Watching: Rapace and Hennie are equally excellent at playing shitty people, pairing nicely like fava beans with a nice Chianti.

Memorable Dialogue: Lars gets in the nastiest dig ever (decontextualized to avoid a spoiler): “Maybe you’ll be satisfied now.”

Sex and Skin: None, but be warned, there are disturbing scenes of sexual assault.

Our Take: …Then again, Lars and Lisa do seem to finally be on the same page, homicidal though it may be, so loll that sweet and sticky caramel-flavored irony around in your mouth for a minute there. The revelation that they want to kill each other in the most literal fashion comes at the 21-minute mark of a 114-minute movie, so it’s not a spoiler to say things escalate from there, via a game of one-upspersonship that goes from cold to violent to utterly ruthless to extremely violent to repulsive to even more extremely violent to thoroughly complicated to flat-out gory as hell. And yes, other characters get involved, lest it get too repetitive. If you can hang with it through its demented twists and turns — no guarantees, love it or hate it, no deposit no return, mileage may vary, etc. — it’ll be to see what resolution Wirkola and co-screenwriters Nick Ball and John Niven came up with, and not because you root for any of these people, who are, at best, poor examples of the human species.

So I guess that means The Trip exists in the satire realm, where marital discord is depicted with immense exaggeration and grotesque homicidal impulses are rendered in rich, bloody reds. One wonders if Lars and Lisa find this elevation of confrontation therapeutic, going from passive-aggressive to insanely aggressive, dropping the sniper rifles for a knife fight, sometimes not at all in a metaphorical fashion. Wirkola occasionally crosses the line between bad taste (which is good; think John Waters) and tastelessness (which is bad; think R-rated Adam Sandler vehicles), spending the majority of the budget on burst blood vessels in eyes and viscous strings of various bodily fluids drooling from mouths and hamburgered knees and innards turned into out-ards — total gorebuckets, more splatter than two or three of those wussy middling slasher movies they make for eight-year-olds these days, he said, nudge wink grain of salt.

Anyway, the movie adheres to the cliche that all is fair in love and war. It’s amusing and irreverent, bleak and repulsive — and therefore an exercise in cognitive dissonance, I guess. It’s definitely conceived more in sickness than in health. For better or worse. ’Til death by disembowelment or shotgun do we part. I’m gonna stop there.

Our Call: STREAM IT. The Trip is far from great, and at its best, it’s barely good. But it inspires a few choking laughs, it’s challenging in its unpleasantness, and it’s likely to satisfy any iron stomachs who are up to the task.

Will you stream or skip the Noomi Rapace black comedy/thriller #TheTrip on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) October 16, 2021

John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read more of his work at johnserbaatlarge.com or follow him on Twitter: @johnserba.

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‘The Trip’ Review: With This Gun, I Thee Shoot

In this Norwegian thriller on Netflix, a murderous couple get more bloodshed than they bargained for.

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Most people don’t prepare for getaways with their spouses by buying a hammer, a hacksaw, duct tape and rope — but Lars (Aksel Hennie) is not most people, and “The Trip,” directed by Tommy Wirkola, is not most movies. Its initial premise is this: Lars has planned to murder his wife, Lisa (Noomi Rapace), during their holiday, but he’s thwarted when it turns out Lisa has been preparing to do away with him on the very same trip. Unfortunately, while that concept promises a fun, agile thriller, “The Trip” all too quickly descends into a juvenile, nihilistic mess.

Lars and Lisa’s mutual blood bath turns into a group affair when some unexpected outsiders, including the escaped convicts Dave (Christian Rubeck), Roy (Andre Eriksen) and Petter (Atle Antonsen), coincidentally join the fray. Each actor gamely tackles the ensuing violence and emotional turbulence, and Rapace is particularly excellent at juggling the two. The film reveals its many surprises through flashbacks, sharp editing and an absurd script clearly aiming for irreverence.

But “The Trip” upsets its own tenuous balance of darkness and drollery, grasping at tasteless material about genitals and poop, though its basic premise is much smarter — and perfectly delightful — on its own. Such artlessness turns what could be a quick, jaunty movie into a slog. By the end of a protracted attempted rape sequence, I was dismayed to discover that I was only halfway through its two-hour duration.

“The Trip” is occasionally fun, but other films have handled gleeful gore and psychological torture with a far more skillful touch. The film pays clear homage to Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games,” a whip-smart commentary on cinematic violence. It doesn’t do itself any favors by inviting that comparison.

The Trip Not rated. In Norwegian, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 53 minutes. Watch on Netflix.

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[Editor’s note: The following review contains major spoilers for “The Trip (Onde Dager).”]

In real life, when married people say they think about murdering their spouse, most don’t actually mean it. In Tommy Wirkola’s devilishly fun black comedy “The Trip” (Norwegian title: “Onde Dager”), they do. Landing somewhere in a delicious Venn diagram between thriller, horror, and comedy, “The Trip” is a fast-paced joy ride that should make even the squeamish delight in a little bloodbath. Cheeky and inventive in equal measure, with brilliant performances all around, a whipsmart script and sharp pacing make “The Trip” one of the most fun watches of the year.

(Since much of the fun comes from an endless parade of rabbits Wirkola pulls out of his insane hat, knowing too much about the action could take the edge off. Consider yourself warned.)

The movie opens on a soap opera set, where a smoldering couple is fighting over an outrageous infidelity. “That’s right, I’m pregnant with your dead brother’s son’s baby,” a blonde actress cries, before the sleepy director calls cut. This is Lars (Aksel Hennie), a dissatisfied TV director whose career hasn’t worked out quite how he imagined. He’s heading to his family cabin with his wife Lisa ( Noomi Rapace ), where they plan to go hiking, a detail he makes sure to share loudly with anyone who will listen, including said blonde actress and his grouchy father. But when he stops by the hardware store for a hammer, saw, and rope, it’s clear he has other plans.

Exuding big “fabulous diva who hasn’t worked in years” energy, Rapace’s Lisa is dialed in from her first dramatic entrance. Sauntering down the driveway in a pink getup with sunglasses, hoop earrings swaying and gum popping, she hands Lars her purse as if he’s the help. With a final glance at the nefarious tools he’s squirreled away, Lars slams the trunk and the rocking title rolls. Buckle up, we’re in for a hell of a ride.

Once at the cabin, the couple needle each other about every little thing. They fiddle over the stove temperature, and when Lars won’t touch the raw steak he’s prepping, Lisa grabs it with her hands. Even their bickering is grounded in an all-too-relatable naturalism that feels forced in most on-screen marriages. After a tense dinner, Lars heads down to the basement to lay out his loot. Soon, he’s sneaking up behind Lisa, hammer in hand. It’s all so early in the film that it seems a prime fake-out. Perhaps he’s just planning some carpentry? But when he lunges at Lisa, she turns around and tases right him in the neck. Oh!

When Lars comes to, he’s tied up and, this time, Lisa is the one holding the hammer. When he admits he planned to kill her for her life insurance, she fesses up to her own similar plan. The camera swings to the left, and yellow block letters announce: “One Day Earlier.” This is the first of many quick flashes in the film, each one revealing information that upends the action in increasingly outrageous ways. It’s a clever trick, and it’s also one that’s never too indulgent. When the same technique introduces three escaped convicts with psychotic Three Stooges vibes, the fun has really only just begun.

There’s a whimsical, Wes Anderson-like quality to the way Wirkola introduces characters and plot twists, though the tone is more Martin McDonagh with a dash of Quentin Tarantino. Like the best McDonagh plays, the violence reaches wildly gratuitous levels without ever feeling like overkill. There’s comedy in the exaggeration, like the sound of brains plopping on the floor or a hand mangled by a boat motor. As the surprises roll in, the plot grows more and more outlandish, revealing the film’s full-on tongue-in-cheekiness. When Lars tells his father, bleeding out in his beloved hammock, “I just blew a guy’s balls off with a shotgun,” dad replies: “I’m proud of you, my son.”

Both seasoned Norwegian talents, Rapace and Hennie are wickedly good together. With her hair dyed a shade of trying-too-hard blonde, she milks humor from the desperate actress routine, despite sporting a quite successful career. Equal parts lumbering and lost, Hennie is the perfect blend of bumbling fool who looks like he could wrestle a mountain lion if he had to. With the right level of empathy and insanity, these two sell the emotion behind the couple’s bloody vitriol, eventually grounding the film in a satisfying human realness. There’s no risk of things turning maudlin once an old man has been shredded by a lawnmower, but it’s nice to find a little light at the end of this bloody, whirlwind tunnel.

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In Norwegian black comedy, The Trip (aka I onde dager ), a dysfunctional married couple head to a remote cabin in the woods in order to spend the weekend together. But while it might look as if the pair are up for some rest and relaxation, this is the furthest thing from their minds, as both have plans to bump each other off.    

However, the couple’s murderous intentions are soon abandoned when they encounter a significant stumbling block: Three escaped convicts have made their way to the cabin. If the couple thought they had problems before, they soon discover a whole lot more trouble as the convicts take over the cabin. But can the pair put aside their differences long enough to escape their new nightmare, or are they better off fending for themselves?

Directed by Tommy Wirkola, The Trip stars Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie. The movie is available to stream on Netflix from today, and is a dark farce, ideal for those who like danger with their humour.

This is a movie about murder after all, so expect a significant amount of blood and a lot of violence. At times, this film moves into some very unsettling places, so don’t expect anything even remotely warm and fuzzy, but do expect sadistic slapstick, bad language, and the occasional rogue poo.  

Sound like something your depraved little mind can get on board? Well, if you said ‘yes’, then you are probably on a similar wave-length to me. I found The Trip to be a real hoot, and if any of the above has even remotely tickled your pickle, then I expect you will come to a similar conclusion. This is a movie for those who love the darker side of life, and who enjoy bonkers movies and blood splatter.

The Trip takes a little while to find its funny bone, but once it gets into its groove, it steadily builds into something enjoyable. There are a few humorous lines to begin with, followed by some sight gags here and there, but once the movie gets into the second half of the picture everything starts getting chucked at the screen.

From lawnmower carnage, to billiard ball bashing, and boating dismemberment, The Trip isn’t afraid to dive headfirst into the darkness. It leans into delicious wickedness at every opportunity, then ups the gross-factor, and this is where it truly thrives.

But this isn’t just some gonzo picture, with no story, no style, and no substance, this is a well-thought-out film which boasts great cinematography, a gorgeous setting, a beautiful colour palette, and a fully developed narrative. It is also a movie with a great cast.

Rapace and Hennie are excellent as the on/off lovers at the centre of the story. Their dislike for each other provides the movie with some of its earliest laughs, while their forced team-up against the convicts is what keeps things interesting as the tale progresses.

The film is essentially about their relationship and the hurdles it faces. Sure, this relationship has to go to some extreme places, but the film explores the idea that maybe this is exactly what the pair need in order to fix their problems. Of course, I won’t say whether or not violence is the answer to their marital disharmony, but I will say this kind of therapy is certainly fun to watch. The Trip is a picture which isn’t afraid to have fun with these characters, and seeing two despicable people find common ground against a greater evil makes for enjoyable stuff.

The Trip is a devilish romp, perfect for those with a twisted sense of humour. It doesn’t pull any punches, leans into the blackest aspects of its premise, and really goes to town.

If you are after something that isn’t afraid to go to extremes, then The Trip is likely for you. Those of a nervous disposition, or who simply hate toilet humour, should probably give it a miss.

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• "The Trip is a wild, zany ride that Wirkola and his cast are 100% committed to (...) you’ll want to take this trip (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"  Trace Thurman : Bloody Disgusting
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• "With The Trip featuring a marriage in crisis, the acting is on top form with moments that work well for its dark comedy approach. As a whole, though, there’s little to remember in this Norweigian film (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"  Jordan Russell Lyon : Ready Steady Cut
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A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.

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In terms of black comedies, I personally believe that being too effective, especially in terms of performances, is the worst thing one could do. Taking this path often detracts from the experience.

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The Trip is a twisty, hilarious, and entertaining movie about a couple's hijacked plan to kill each other. Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie as warring wife and husband sold their characters well, bringing us the strains of a crumbling marriage with comical, macabre ease. These actors are supported by villains who seemed to be having a blast filming too. The Trip 's turns gets better and better with each passing detail using A-form script, witty dialogue, inventive storytelling and constant energetic atmosphere. Tommy Wikola should also be commended for his committed direction; maximizing the location, the witty dialogue and the rambunctious climax to its full effect. A black comedy-thriller that's gory, bloody and gruesome without the eek factor,  The Trip is a trip worth taking.

Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★★ 1

#SlasherSaturday For some reason, I did not place that this was Noomi Rapace in the lead until just now when I was writing this. Perhaps because I watched the English dub and it wasn’t actually her voice I was hearing. This was a really fun watch, though. Tommy Wirkola brings the violence and there’s a good amount of pretty hilarious dialogue too. Appreciate the pick because I’m still lagging behind on watching more of Wirkola’s work. Probably about time to watch Violent Night again. 

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Review by haley ★★★½ 1

i really had no idea what to expect with this one, but i loved it. it definitely felt a bit awkward at first, but once things really got going, it had my full attention. this was such a fun comedic thriller/horror film with plenty of violence and a brilliant ending. them constantly leaving weapons on the ground drove me crazy though.

Review by bombsfall ★★★½ 1

One of the better fjord-centric climaxes I have seen in a movie. Fjans of fjords will fjind a lot to like here.

Review by JBird ★★★½

Sometimes love is a bit static, As a couple moves toward the dramatic. A weekend away, Will go astray, From the basement up to the attic.

Review by Mister Cap ★★★½ 4

"The Trip" ist ein wirklich wilder Ritt, bei dem Rückblenden dauernd die zentrale Handlung unterbrechen, nur damit man versteht, was gerade jetzt passiert.

Es ist ein cleverer Trick, den das Skript mehrmals verwendet und er bleibt auch bis zum letzten Aufguss faszinierend, da er ständig eine weitere Ebene hinzufügt, gerade wenn wir glauben, die Richtung des Films zu kennen.

Neben den wirklich sehr blutigen Gewaltexzessen, ist der pechschwarze, clevere Humor, vor allem nachdem er die Furz und Scheiße Phase hinter sich gebracht hat, besonders markant und hat mich an manchen Stellen laut lachen lassen.

Ich fand es toll, dass die beiden Hauptfiguren, Lisa und Lars (Noomi Rapace und Aksel Hennie) nach anfänglichen "Unstimmigkeiten", gezwungen waren, sich wieder zusammen zu raufen…

Review by Robert E. Acuña ★★½ 2

When they do the American remake I hope it's just a sequel to 'Marriage Story' but with guns and gore. That way the " Adam Driver Prophecy " can be fulfilled.

'The Trip' or 'In Bad Times' is a film that takes its wacky premise way too seriously. Like this is some 'Home Alone' type shit and they are treating it with so much unnecessary respect.

Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie give really great performances. When the film leans into the goofiness they excel flawlessly.

But this film struggles the minute the 3 convicts show up. It gets so serious that the humor becomes jarring when it returns. 'Ready or Not' did this same idea but kept it funny all throughout and was better for it.

This just didn't click for me as I had hoped.

Review by Big Rig ★★★

It’s always a pleasant surprise to come across a Netflix film that I thoroughly enjoy, and The Trip is one such film.

Wirkola and his cast are 100% committed to this film, which really shines through in the final product. The film understands its roots, and exploits them to create a film that is as funny as it is dark, and as fun as it is horrifying. My only really issue is that there were some jarring tonal discrepancies within these differing styles. The darkly comedic exchanges and situations are brilliant, but are stitched between terribly nihilistic themes which, although interesting in their own way, seem misplaced.

Despite its flaws, The Trip deserves to stand alongside Wirkola’s Dead Snow (and perhaps unlike Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters…).

Review by aswin rayendra ★★★½

Such a gem to be found in Netflix.. And what a family bonding movie it is all about! Better to go into the movie blind without reading any synopsis about it and you'll get a gory, energetic, with a pinch of Tarantino-esque black comedy thriller and it's just so much fun, maybe the bloodiest thing I've ever seen from some of the releases this year. Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie also led the movie brilliantly. My main gripe is that it has kind of TV-movie picture looking quality into it, but it's still worth your time to watch.

Review by Zay ★★★★½ 2

The Trip is a bonkers Norwegian black comedy full of bloody comical shenanigans. Similar to last year's Russian Why Don't You Just Die! A couple goes up to a cabin for a seemingly peaceful weekend that turns out to be anything but. Double crosses, shotgun blasts, quirky characters, and toxic relationships make this one of the most entertaining films of the year!

*Available via Netflix*

Review by Lynn Betts ★★★½ 8

# SlasherSaturday finally up-to-date for my first anniversary! Thanks to my fellow slash monkeys: you've been a real lifeline to me over the past year!

And now, for THE TRIP (pick for Dec 2):

Noomi Rapace and Scandanavian yuppie slashing? Where do I sign up?

I know not all foreign films need reboots or remakes - and of course not as quickly as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series - but may I suggest Margot Robbie and Bill Burr for the Hollywood version?

That married couple... everyone knows a married couple like this, with whom you wouldn't be surprised if something twisted and sordid went down between them.

No real innocents here, so it's fun to see them gorily duke it out.

PS: A HUNDRED UNSEEN HORRORS #19

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REVIEW: “The Trip” (2021)

One of my favorite things about each movie year is coming across something completely new and unexpected. Movies that I had never heard of and that were never on my radar, yet caught me completely by surprise. Netflix has done that very thing with their new foreign language flick “The Trip”, an impossible to label Norwegian film from director and co-writer Tommy Wirkola.

I call “The Trip” impossible to label because it can’t be put into any box or assigned to any one genre. It’s a movie that defies any and all expectations and is full of surprises both narratively and visually. It leaps back-and-forth between genres never staying in the same place for very long. To give you an idea, it sometimes plays like a serious marital drama and other times like a pitch-black comedy. One second it’s a crime thriller and then it hits you with gruesome body horror. There’s even a terrifying “Funny Games” sequence complete with the emotional and physical savagery of that Hanake film.

Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie play Lisa and Lars, a dysfunctional couple on the outs who set out on a weekend trip to the mountains where they own a rustic lakeside cabin built by Lars’ father. Lars is a dissatisfied director who’s stuck making cheap television soap operas. “ You’re no Hitchcock ”, his cantankerous father (Nils Ole Oftebro) gruffly reminds him. Lisa is a struggling theater actress who loves performing but has recently been turned down for several big parts. Both are frustrated; both are unhappy. But at least they have each other, right?

So they head to the mountains for a much needed getaway, yet they can’t even make it to the cabin without an argument breaking out. It quickly becomes clear that these two despise each other. But maybe this trip is exactly what they need. Could they end up where most couples do in movies like this? You know, rekindling an old flame and rediscovering that love that first brought them together? Well, they’ll first have to overcome a pretty significant obstacle. As it turns out, both have come to cabin with plans of killing their spouse. See what I mean? That’s a pretty big obstacle.

I don’t want to say more because this truly is a case of ‘the less you know the better’. One of the film’s biggest strengths is its ability to broadside its audience with something they never see it coming. It begins practically as soon as they arrive at the cabin. “ Home Sweet Home ”, Lisa wryly says signaling that we’re in for a twisted ride. Both lead performances are strong especially from Rapace who has an often underrated ability to express emotion without uttering a single word.

Let me stress, “The Trip” isn’t for the faint of heart. Some scenes are extremely intense and the further it goes the gorier the movie gets. Yet it’s all fused with this wicked sense of humor that often pops up in the most unexpected moments. There were times where I was physically jolted by the violence and other times where I caught myself laughing out loud. What’s most amazing is how Wirkola keeps it all together. Not perfectly (the poop gag is certainly a low point), but more than enough to keep his audience entertained and always wondering what’s coming next. “The Trip” is now streaming on Netflix.

VERDICT – 3.5 STARS

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Keith, I also happened to stumble across this one during late night netflix surfing. It’s entertaining every step of the way and you’re right, you never know what’s going to happen next. I think they did a wonderful job of casting. I love Rapace and also really like Hennie in the few movies I’ve seen him in. What is surprising is how good the support cast is! They do get creative with their gore and torture! Their is a wickedness to this one I enjoyed very much.

Totally caught of guard by this one. It’s a good grab for Netflix. I just wish they did a better job of promoting their movies. I feel too many like this fall through the cracks.

Please do a movie review with Emma Watkins 💛

I’m on the fence with this one, but might just give it a shot.

Oh you should. I would get a kick out of reading your reaction!

OK, I might check this out.

It’ll definitely surprise you…repeatedly!

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There’s a reason why comedy sequels rarely work. Great comedy is often about landing a joke at the right time and refining material in the moment, and it’s rare that the situations and characters can be easily inserted into a follow up story. There’s a rather slim amount of comedy sequels that can even compare to their originals, and the number of comedy franchises with multiple good installments is even lower.

The notion of a comedy series with four great installments would seem nearly impossible, but that’s exactly what filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon did with The Trip franchise. The films re-edit footage from the U.K. sitcom of the same name to form a cohesive narrative, resulting in four unique installments- 2010’s The Trip , 2014’s The Trip to Italy , 2017’s The Trip to Spain , and 2020’s The Trip to Greece .

Some comedy franchises mix genres in a way that suit them for continuing adventures - there’s an action element to the Austin Powers series and lots of sci-fi worldbuilding in the Bill & Ted films. The Trip couldn’t be more different; Coogan and Brydon star as (lightly) fictionalized versions of themselves, two lifelong friends and comedians who embark on a series of restaurant tours across landmark destinations in Europe.

While Winterbottom has made films with an intense visual style before ( Code 46 , 24 Hour Party People , The Claim ), The Trip films are entirely based on the conversations between Coogan and Brydon. Obviously getting two established comedians to make funny observations on a road trip may not seem like a tough task, but the chemistry between the two leads goes beyond their competing Michael Caine impressions. Each film shows the passing of time and how the friendship has evolved, and the acerbic wit that each comedian brings prevents the films from ever being too cloyingly sentimental.

If the concept of “ Richard Linklater 's Before trilogy starring two middle-aged comedian friends” doesn’t sound initially appealing, Coogan and Brydon are savvy in what personal details are shared. Because the two are best friends, the viewer doesn’t need to be fed expositional dialogue about the major updates in their personal lives between films. You wouldn't fill your friend in on your entire backstory every time you see them, and enough context clues come up naturally in the films for the audience to feel sufficiently caught up. It’s intended for each film to be a snapshot into a specific moment in the two men's lives, with an occasionally lukewarm return to normalcy following each trip.

What makes The Trip such a great franchise is that it avoids the frequent issues of repetitiveness comedy sequels face through its authenticity. Sometimes a joke that worked the first time around just doesn’t work a second time - Brydon’s exaggerated Bond villain impersonation may have been hilarious in The Trip but feels stale by The Trip to Greece , and the characters can comment on that. The films don’t feel the need to manufacture conflict between the characters either, and any quarrel or disagreement comes up naturally. By the end of the fourth film, Coogan and Brydon haven’t broken down into any furious shouting matches, but it’s clear their lives are headed in different directions.

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The docu-style approach also helps to avoid manufacturing jokes when they’re not appropriate - one of the more quietly profound moments in the series is Coogan’s growing irritation with Brydon’s quips when they encounter a preserved body at a historical site in The Trip to Greece . There’s enough inherent humor from the characters’ perspectives that adding in setpieces or exterior gags isn’t necessary, and there are moments where it’s best to hold back.

The lack of a conclusive chapter allows each film to naturally segue into another; the stories don’t end with Coogan and Brydon reaching a more profound understanding of each other because that’s just not how real-life friendship works, and each film ends in borderline experimental fashion. The Trip to Spain is the most notable in that regard, concluding with Coogan isolated and exhausted in the middle of a foreign country without any direction forward (literally or metaphorically). As high-strung as many of the conversations can get, the Trip franchise's depiction of mid-life anxiety remarkably pulls no punches.

The Trip also isn’t a franchise where one film stands out among the rest. Your favorite entry might depend on what stage of life you’re at and how much of the mature elements you’re comfortable with. The adolescent hijinks don’t disappear by the end of the series, but the films do confront more serious situations as they go on. When Coogan faces the impending loss of a parent in The Trip to Greece , it throws a wrench into the story that stops the film in its tracks and forces both men to reckon with their life choices.

The notion of getting to see these beautiful locations is also very appealing, especially considering most of us have been completely confined to our homes for the past year. As much fun as each mini-adventure is, Coogan and Brydon make it clear that the indulgences they allow themselves on vacation just aren’t sustainable when they return to their family lives. For instance, Coogan experiences a wake-up call when his son joins the series towards the end of The Trip to Italy , and he’s forced to dramatically alter his behavior and revert to being a parent.

This is a must watch franchise for film nerds, as beyond the amusing pop culture references is the incorporation of Coogan’s acting career as a point of conversation. The awards success of 2013’s Philomena (which Coogan starred in and co-wrote, earning Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay) leads to a very funny discussion on the merits of awards communities. There’s also a vague notion that each of the stories follows some of the countries’ literary icons; The Trip to Spain contains allusions to the Don Quixote story, and The Trip to Greece features the characters following the trail of The Odyssey.

Winterbottom, Coogan, and Brydon have definitively stated that The Trip to Greece is the end of the franchise, making it one of the rare series to leave on a satisfying conclusion without any critical missteps forcing a conclusion. It’s a rare achievement, and one that only a select few sagas have ever been able to do. That its stories and setups are so simple shouldn’t change the fact that The Trip is a valuable franchise that finished on its own terms.

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Where Was The Trip Filmed? Where is the Cabin in The Trip Located?

‘The Trip’ (original title: ‘I onde dager’) is a Norwegian action thriller that follows Lars and Lisa as they go on a getaway to their cabin in the woods. Each with their bitter reasons, the two plan on murdering their spouse during the vacation but don’t count on the other attempting the same. The chaos that ensues is raised several notches when three escaped convicts stumble into the situation. The film takes place almost entirely in the couple’s cabin, and the serene natural surroundings are turned into the scene of a bloodbath. Are you curious about where the cabin from ‘The Trip’ is located? We’ve got the story!

The Trip Filming Locations

Director by Tommy Wirkola, ‘The Trip’ was filmed in Norway across a few different locations. Since a large portion of the movie is set indoors, extensive sets were built for shooting. The production also spent time on location, primarily for outdoor and establishing shots. Principal photography took place in 2020 during the months of September and October. Now let’s take a look at where most of the filming took place.

Lillestrøm, Norway

‘The Trip’ was filmed predominantly in the Lillestrøm municipality, located within the Oslo metropolitan area. A secluded cabin in the area was used for many exterior scenes, and the surrounding forested region was used for establishing shots. The region is known for its natural beauty and draws visitors for hiking and skiing. The waterside scenes were seemingly filmed at the nearby Nitelva river.

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Interior scenes were seemingly filmed on intricately constructed sets located in Lillestrøm. Multiple action sequences take place within the confines of the rooms of the small cabin. Filming on a constructed set allowed the filmmakers to capture angles that would otherwise be impossible. In fact, since the film ends with scenes from a production set, one can see how the confined basement is actually a much larger room. The scene in which the three convicts fall through the roof also depicts how the room is actually larger than it appears.

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Therefore, the cabin where ‘The Trip’ is set was brought to life using multiple locations. The natural surroundings were captured from forested regions around the city of Oslo, while the extensive interior filming took place on detailed sets.

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Part of the appeal of travel movies and shows is the way they let the audience travel vicariously. At its best, travel entertainment can be educational, teaching viewers about places they haven’t been and cultures that might be foreign to them. But an undeniable draw is still the chance to admire beautiful scenery and plan to go there someday — or at least feel like you’re there, now that the COVID-19 pandemic has made leaving home such a safety risk. One travel series may actually help curb that sense of wanderlust, though: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s The Trip .

The two actors, playing exaggerated versions of themselves, have now starred in four Trip movies, each edited together from six-episode TV series. 2010’s The Trip took them around the north of England, while 2014’s The Trip to Italy , 2017’s The Trip to Spain , and the new and final installment, The Trip to Greece , all have self-explanatory names. On each trip, Coogan and Brydon take a restaurant tour, passing through beautiful scenery and dining on mouth-watering food. If anything, the series should make travel irresistible.

But Coogan, Brydon, and director Michael Winterbottom actually pull off something more impressive: They make the trips seem fun, but also sad, frustrating, and even lonely. Traveling doesn’t solve the problems Coogan and Brydon are dealing with in their home lives. A vacation may be an attempt to take a break from personal issues, but there’s no way to completely leave them behind. Their troubles may be worlds away from viewers’, as their lives as successful actors are hardly normal, but they become accessible through their open portrayals. The honesty Winterbottom captures about the problems of celebrities — who should theoretically be so well off that they wouldn’t have a care in the world — and their more domestic worries, such as providing for their families or finding work, aren’t that far removed from the average person’s concerns.

The most commonly referenced element of the Trip movies are Coogan and Brydon’s dueling impressions of figures ranging from Michael Caine to the Batman villain Bane. However, Winterbottom also uses these trips to dig deeper, using the two actors’ journeys through historical landmarks as a pretext for them to interrogate their own mortality. Coogan is unmarried and free to become romantically entangled abroad (he’s seen both attempting to and succeeding in currying the favor of women he meets), but he struggles to connect with his children and to combat feelings of impermanence. Brydon is happily married, and can’t go as wild as Coogan does while traveling, but he has an anchor in his family.

The two of them also want to be taken more seriously, not just seen as comedians. As they travel, they deal with that desire in different ways. Coogan constantly refers to his Oscar-nominated script for the 2013 film Philomena to prove his success, but finds that nobody cares much about it. His profile hasn’t risen much at all in the seven years since that movie: His calls to his agent about new work get redirected to an assistant. Brydon, who hasn’t done as much dramatic work, reassures himself with the fact that he’s achieved stability, and that his legacy will be carried on through his children. Under Winterbottom’s direction, the pair’s comic stylings often give way to such introspection, and moments of silence and solitude.

Even though they’re on the most marvelous trips imaginable, it’s clear that scenic vistas and haute cuisine alone aren’t enough to make Coogan and Brydon feel fulfilled. Their problems don’t magically go away because they’re abroad, and though they get along, they sometimes bristle at each other, too, as is almost inevitable when traveling with company. (For a more explicit, condensed version of the lessons they’re expressing, try the recent Saturday Night Live sketch where Adam Sandler plays an exhausted tour-company host: “If you’re sad where you are, and then you get on a plane to Italy, the you in Italy will be the same sad you from before, just in a new place.”)

Watching the movies is a delight, though. Each installment of the series feels like checking in on old friends, if your old friends were two of the sharpest comedians alive. The rapport between Coogan and Brydon is so genuine — they’re already so invested in each other — that the audience becomes a third guest on the trips rather than a voyeur. That feeling of inclusion and closeness makes the usual vicarious experience of a travel series even more potent. During a global pandemic, however, that ability to travel along with the hosts is a blessing for a different reason.

As appealing as being anywhere but home might seem right now, it’s reassuring to remember that traveling has its ups and downs, too. The Trip movies capture that balance through the (new and pre-existing) crises that the fictionalized versions of Coogan and Brydon experience. Winterbottom never goes so far as to make traveling seem abjectly awful — who wouldn’t want to escape to a beach right now, if it could be done safely? — but he makes it clear that no getaway will be completely perfect, either. As the wait for a coronavirus vaccine stretches on, the reminder that something that seems like a perfect reprieve has its flaws, too, comes as a relief.

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4 girls hurt during unprovoked stabbing attack in AMC movie theater near Boston; suspect arrested

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Updated on: May 26, 2024 / 3:38 PM EDT / CBS Boston

BRAINTREE - A male suspect has been arrested in connection with a stabbing that wounded four girls in an AMC movie theater south of Boston Saturday, authorities said. CBS Boston has learned that the same suspect may be responsible for a similar incident which may have occurred at a McDonald's restaurant in Plymouth. 

A man stabbed four girls inside a theater at an AMC multiplex in Braintree at around 6 p.m. local time, the Braintree Police Department reported. Braintree is located about 12 miles south of Boston. 

Police said the man entered the multiplex without a ticket, went into a theater, and then attacked the four girls, ages 9 to 17, unprovoked. The girls were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. 

"It's so heartbreaking that's what I'll be thinking about the rest of the night is seeing those kids coming down the steps and just crying. They looked really stunned like they just saw a horror movie, not a kid's movie," said Matteo Rojas, who was at the theater at the time of the stabbing.

An AMC employee who was working the snack counter at the time of the attack described the suspect as wearing "an oversized trench coat, sunglasses, and a long blonde wig."

According to @BraintreePolice four girls under the age of 17 were stabbed inside of a theater at @AMCTheatres in Braintree, MA around 6:00pm. All four are expected to be ok. We’re told the suspect was involved in a “similar assault” in Plymouth a short time after… @wbz pic.twitter.com/2DQk5Fx4Tx — Laura Haefeli (@LauraHaefeli) May 26, 2024

The suspect fled the scene in a black SUV, but police were able to obtain his license plate number using video footage and located him in Plymouth after he was reportedly involved in a "similar assault" there, police said. CBS Boston learned that the second possible attack may have occurred around 7 p.m. at a McDonald's restaurant, where a 21-year-old woman and a 29-year-old male were allegedly stabbed. Both victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are being treated at a nearby hospital. Police said it appears the "crimes are related."

"Preliminary investigation suggests a likely connection to an earlier incident at a movie theatre in Braintree resulting in non-life threatening injuries to four juveniles," Massachusetts State Police said.  

The suspect led Massachusetts State Police on a car chase before crashing in the town of Sandwich, which is located south of Plymouth. He was taken into custody and is being treated at a nearby hospital.

Sources told the WBZ-TV I-Team that the suspect is also believed to be linked to a murder investigation in Deep River, Connecticut. Connecticut police had put out a alert for him earlier Saturday, describing him as armed and dangerous and possibly armed with a 10-inch knife, sources said. 

The suspect's name and the charges he faces were not immediately released. 

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