The first Trip movie was great, IMBD rating 8.1 The second "Trip to Italy" not so good and IMBD rating 6.6, and I believe the reson was all the slapstick and impressions and trying so hard to be funny. Very little about the restaurant they were at or the food, which is what their trip was supposed to be about. I hoped that they learned it might be a good idea to return to concept in first movie when making the third, no chance. They not only followed the terrible script of second movie but did even more idiot stuff that wasn't even funny. And guess what IMBD rating 6.6 and that's generous. These two guys are so talented and funny so what a waste of their abilities in this bomb.

"The Trip to Spain" is the third in the series of 'culinery travelogue' TV programmes by Steve Coogan ("Philomena") and Rob Brydon ("Gavin and Stacey"). The pair travel by car through Spain sampling the local delicacies while constantly trying to self-salve their fragile egos and trying to out-do each other with comedy spiel. This is of course not a "documentary" as such, since the pair are playing up to their extreme alter-egos (presumably!) of what people expect them to be like. Actors playing their family, agents, etc. call them at various points on the trip to either pour oil on troubled waters or (more often) add fuel to the fire.The six original half hour TV episodes have been edited down into a feature length journey. And this is part of the problem. Repetition that can be forgiven and forgotten about when you see an episode every week, but can become tiresome when forced on you as a continuous stream.In this case the repetitive content delivered by Coogan and Brydon are their (normally very good) impersonations of famous stars (most of which it has to be said are British so won't resonate with a non-UK audience). Roger Moore in particular gets trotted out INTERMINABLY and while some of it is extremely funny - an exchange between Moore as Bond and Scaramanga had me snorting tea out of my nose - it all gets too much by the end.Appearing to recognise this need for more variety, additional characters from Steve's team join them for a part of their trip - Emma (Clare Keelan) and Yolanda (Marta Barrio). Unfortunately, the additions are just plain dull: they just sit alongside Coogan and Brydon and laugh at their impressions, adding nothing. Now if they had been a couple of good female impersonators, like Ronni Ancona and Jan Ravens, that could act as a foil to the male duo, THAT would have been entertaining.The film also suffers from "Top Gear Challenge" disease. The problem with filming a car journey through Spain is that you know there are not twenty film crews deployed along the route to do the filming.... all of the cameras are carefully set up in advance with someone on a walkie-talkie saying "OK, Steve - coffee down, we're ready for you to drive over the hill now". So something that should feel natural and documentary-like feels 100% the opposite.So... if you like Coogan and Brydon, and especially if you liked their Northern England and Italy "trips", then you will get more laughs out of this one. But I think the concoction needs to be put through the blender and re-heated before it comes out for a fourth outing.(For the full graphical review, please visit bob-the-movie-man.com).

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.

40 minutes into the movie, I was incredibly bored. Essentially this film is just two mates having improvised banter over a meal. It's more of a documentary travel/food TV show painfully stretched out to a feature film length.It was, the best way to put it; 'lame'. It did show a bit of promise in the beginning but failed to meet any kind of standards. Sure, the banter brought some smiles, but none of it was really clever or witty. It really was just two friends talking. I feel like this movie is the kind of video you make among friends and show it to only friends, and your friends would be the only ones laughing. No one outside that circle of friends.Wouldn't recommend this.