The Trip to Italy

This hedonistic japery is shot through with middle-aged melancholy and the fear of death.

If it's your cup of tea, you're likely to spill it from laughing so hard. Somebody send these two on another holiday.

By the time Coogan is addressing Brydon as Yorick in a skull-filled catacomb outside Naples, the film's true subject has been made as crystal clear as the case surrounding a lava-crusted corpse in old Pompeii.

The Trip to Italy doesn't feel entirely new, but there's comfort in familiarity, too.

Where comedy provides the tonic in so many films, it's the hint of reality that pushes in at the edges and changes the pace here. These guys are funny. But they know their longer trip will continue once the last plate of pasta is empty.

A comedy that creates moments of deep empathy thanks to its characters and has Italian landscapes that reach narrative connotations. [Full review in Spanish]

A culinary journey through the beautiful Italian geography, mired in an irrepressible chattering where Byron or Shelley's poems are recited. [Full review in Spanish]

A film in which two men chat, improvise, and, along the way, turn their dialectic rivalry into a fine form of comedy. A trip, perhaps unnecessary but in excellent company. [Full review in Spanish]

A film conveniently adapted for cinemas that maintains maximum similarities with the earlier work, The Trip (2010). [Full review in Spanish]

A film that starts as a very enjoyable and humorous overdose for the fans of the cast and ends up taking the post humor to a glorious depressive vein. [Full review in Spanish]

It's very smart and entertaining, and if Coogan, Brydon and Winterbottom want to do a third film, I'd be more than happy to take another ride with them.