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CSSCHNEIDER

I hope we get another entry in this series every two years for the rest of my life.

9 years 4 months ago

For those of you haven't seen this, I highly recommend it for the laughs and the little moments of truth, not to mention the incredible scenery. Do make sure you see the first film too, called THE TRIP. There's two versions of these movies - the 90 minute theatricals and the 3 hour 6 episode TV series. I'd recommend the longer versions.

9 years 10 months ago

Jook

Sublime.

9 years 11 months ago

yuuago

Tedious rather than funny. The beautiful scenery in the background isn't worth suffering through this film.

2 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

Coogan and Brydon switch places in a number of ways in The Trip to Italy, a follow-up that trades the gray mists of northern England for the gorgeous golden light of Italy, because now it seems like Steve is doing more adulting, while Rob, slightly less prone to spontaneous impressions, is captain of the trip. Frankly, I like it better than the first film. Having done the conversion from series to film once before, director Michael Winterbottom has made this second voyage more filmic at the source. It looks better, more things happen, there's most of heart and character thruline. Many have compared this series to Richard Linklater's Before trilogy, but for a repressed British bromance, and they're not wrong. The conversations are more subtly heady (as they're primarily, and very relatably, riffing on inside jokes and trying to make one's companion laugh), but the way we pick up each film at a different point in their lives, and leaving them the same way, with ambiguous endings, does make me think of those movies. One of those ambiguities tends to confirm my suspicion from the first film that the Emma character (Steve's assistant) quite fancies Rob, but perhaps we'll never know for sure.

9 months ago

Ray Anselmo

A lot of fun watching two friends eat wonderful food, do bad vocal impressions and bust each other's chops. 8/10

(I wonder if there will be a fifth film in 2023-24 - France? America? Switzerland? Or will Brexit force them to stay local and do The Trip to Cornwall?)

2 years 11 months ago

toopsy

not quite as good as the first one.
still works.

9 years 2 months ago

palefire

Groundhog day except each time they wake up they're eating at yet another Italian restaurant doing even more Al Pacino impersonations.

9 years 2 months ago

BadFluffy

One of those movies where you expect it to come together but it never really happens. The humor mostly falls into the "you had to be there" category. If you're into impressions, at least you'll get that.
Italy is remarkably absent, despite the lovely scenery. 2/5

9 years 3 months ago