'The Trip To Italy' A Review

The Trip To Italy is a buddy road comedy, the sequel to 2010's The Trip. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play fictionalized versions of themselves on a restaurant/vacation tour of Italy, the follow up to their original tour of northern England. They see the sights, eat great food, crack jokes, do impressions, discuss their careers and families.

The film has the same casual fluid feeling of the original: light, fun, and surprisingly soulful. It does have the perfunctory sequel call out at the beginning, dropping Godfather II, but that dove tails into the films first series of delightful impressions. It is not better than the original but it is not worse either. The dynamic has switched with Coogan being the more laid back and Brydon as a new father suffering some doubts. The scenery and culinary beauty of Italy enhances an already pleasing return to two interesting, humorous, authentic characters.

Two great comic actors in a low-key sequel find moments of improvisational brilliance and relaxed emotional truth.

See It.