
WHAT'S IT ABOUT
Two middle-aged British comedians tour Italy sampling the local food & women in this sequel to the cult BBC film / TV series The Trip.
What’s it REALLY about?
Edited-down “best bits” of a six-part BBC docu-comedy where The Observer commissioned comedian Rob Brydon to write restaurant reviews in Britain’s Lake District (series one) and Italy (this film/series two). Brydon invites fellow comedian Steve Coogan along, and we are served the best bits of their improvisations and impersonations based on an EXTREMELY loose plot.
We are force-fed a game of one-upmanship (that starts off tedious and becomes painful) sandwiched between an excuse to follow in Byron-Shelley's footsteps across Italy, and the veiled excuse of truncated food-porn.
I won't lie: I laughed a couple of times at their James Bond / Godfather / Michael Caine impersonations. However if this premise sounds interesting, watch the TV show - at least it's served up in palatable courses. As a movie it's tedious. And thanks to the lack of a decent steadicam during the yacht sequence, it's also seasickness inducing.