7) THE TRIP TO ITALY:
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Funny men Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are like a contemporary ‘Odd Couple’, and in this film back together again reprising their roles of touring enthusiastic amateur gastronomes whilst verbal sparring and trying to out ‘impersonate’ each other. They are a disarmingly charming pair as they follow in the footsteps of Lord Bryon and Percy Shelley who were ‘celebrity’ British travellers from two centuries previously, and they use both their predecessor’s poetry and their Grand Tour as a spurious link to their own escapades.
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