The Trip to Italy is a 2014 British comedy-drama film on Blu-ray, directed by Michael Winterbottom.
The boys are back! In the long-awaited follow up to comedy smash The Trip, The Trip to Italy sees two of Britain’s best-loved comic actors, Steve Coogan (PHILOMENA) and Rob Brydon (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story), on a whirlwind culinary road trip in Italy.
Enjoying mouth watering meals in the gorgeous surroundings of Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and Capri, this modern day comedy odd couple riff on subjects as varied as Batman’s vocal register, Pompeii, the artistic merits of Alanis Morissette's “Jagged Little Pill”, and, of course, compete on who can do the best Michael Caine impersonation.
The Trip to Italy Movie Reviews
“THE TRIP TO ITALY casts a warm, enveloping spell, letting us ride along with two very funny men as they indulge in haute cuisine, serenely beautiful landscapes, and the pleasure of each others company” Variety
“As funny as the first, and more satisfying in some ways… more beautiful to look at… The trip itself offers our travelers enough pleasures to generate lethal envy in the viewer: Breathtaking vistas; cruising the Amalfi coast in a top-down Mini Cooper; hotel suites that probably cost as much as that Mini” The Hollywood Reporter
“They make entertaining company and Winterbottom’s cameras make the travel and food porn so enticing that it lulls you into a state of sybaritic delirium for minutes on end” Sandra Hill, The Age
“Though the formula that proved so effective in 2010’s The Trip (also a winning TV series) has barely been altered, the refined verbal sparring of the leads is even more inspired and amusing than before…More please (The Trip to Australia, maybe?)” Leigh Paatsch, Herald Sun
“This is a trip well worth taking… A very tasty treat indeed” David Michael Brown, Empire