Would Brydon’s Small Man in a Box endure (it had an iPhone app) — or Coogan’s five BAFTAs? But in “The Trip to Italy,” death dominates the conversation at greater length.

Would Brydon’s Small Man in a Box endure (it had an iPhone app) — or Coogan’s five BAFTAs? But in “The Trip to Italy,” death dominates the conversation at greater length.

“The Trip to Italy”: A deceptively genius road-trip romp Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon do Italy in another faux-casual comedy of death, poetry and Michael Caine impressions ...