Back when Boothbay Harbor had a travel agency in the Meadow Mall, I would take out travel videos of France, England or Italy during lunch breaks.

Upon returning to work I would announce having had lunch in Paris or Naples.

While viewing the film playing at The Harbor Theatre this weekend, “The Trip to Italy,” I was reminded of those “travels,” but Steve Coogan and Ray Brydon provide a far more entertaining, humorous and visually stunning vehicle.

This new film, the sequel to Coogan and Brydon's “The Trip” (2010), takes the audience on a gorgeous trip to the Amalfi coast, Capri, Naples, Rome, Tuscany, Camogli on the Italian Rivera, Ravello, Genoa and other locations. The scenery is to die for, and so is the completely improvised banter between the two men on this weeklong road trip.

The Brit comics (portraying their fictional selves) are on this fine wine and gastronomic journey for an article Brydon is writing about the country's food and wine for one of their country's magazines. Not that he is particularly knowledgeable about either ...

While they do this they are also stopping to visit the places romantic poets Lord Byron and Percey Shelley stayed including Byron's house in Genoa, the beach at Viareggio where Shelley was cremated by his friends (including Byron and English author Edward John Trelawny) after drowning while sailing on Trelawny's boat; and the grave sites in The Protestant Cemetery (for non-Catholics) of all three men.

While dining or driving both deliver hysterical, and impressive, impersonations of such famed actors as Michael Caine, Hugh Grant, Sean Connery — and all of the 007s — Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Richard Burton and others.

One particularly funny bit centers around Caine's delivery of lines in “The Dark Knight Rises” while they are lunching at the first restaurant stop on the road trip.

And it goes on from there.

There are literary references aplenty, quotes of Byron and Shelley, lots of wine and other adult beverages (and behavior), and food. Throughout the film, at each dining stop, the cameras pan out to the kitchen as the orders are being prepared and the food ... sembra delizioso!

And the cinematography ... magnifico! Whether of the countryside, city or coast, the scenery, will make you swoon. Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.

My lunchtime sojourns were never like this!

This is a film that will make you wish you could travel with these two guys who are a trip themselves. And, if like me, you haven't seen the first film, “The Trip” in northern England, you're going to be adding it to your Netflix queue!

Take a ride on the wildly humorous side and see “The Trip to Italy,” — no passport required.

The Harbor Theatre is located in the Meadow Mall at 185 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. “The Trip to Italy,” plays Friday, Sept. 19, Saturday, Sept. 20, Wednesday, Sept. 24 and Thursday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. and at 3 and 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21.