The Trip to Italy

The Trip to Italy is the sequel to 2010’s road trip comedy The Trip, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Like its predecessor, the film is an edited version of the BBC series that aired over six episodes. The stars, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, are on a journey filing restaurant reviews throughout Italy, starting in the North and finishing on the island of Capri. Much of the conversation between the two friends is improvised, with each man portraying an exaggerated version of themselves. If you’re a fan of British comedy and improvisation, then chances are you’ll enjoy The Trip to Italy.

A theme from the first film that was applied to the second is the idea that the duo are following in the footsteps of British literary icons. In the first film it was Coleridge and Wordsworth that they emulated, and this time it was the romantic poets George Gordon Lord Byron  and Percy Bysse Shelley. The restaurants and hotels that Coogan and Brydon visited in The Trip to Italy are some very prestigious properties and have ties to the authors.  The Casa Magni in Lerici, for example, is the house that Shelley and his wife Mary were living in at the time Shelley was shipwrecked.

The Trip to Italy is rated 14A.

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