Cast: Sergio Romano, Pierpaolo Capovilla, Filippo Scotti Review by Carol Allen
They turn up at Venice airport to meet their old buddy Genio (Andrea Pennacchi) with whom they were involved in a profitable scam involving stealing designer spectacles, which caused Genio to do a hasty emigration to Argentina. The reunion goes awry however when they go to the wrong Venice airport (there are two apparently) and they spend the rest of the film on the road trying to find the right one with many stops for liquid refreshment. On the way they pick up a young, lovelorn architecture student Giulio (Filippo Scotti) and persuade him to abandon his scheduled exam and learn about “life” with them.
The journey naturally has lots of stops en route for liquid refreshment and some sexy hijinks, incidents linked by what sometimes seem interminable tracking shots from the car of the less interesting parts of the Veneto countryside. Though they’re looking for Venice airport don’t be fooled into thinking you’re going to get lots of pretty views of Venice itself. The airports are way out of the city.
As drunks go Doriano and Carlobianchi are quite amiable coves and Pennachi is appealing as the geekish but rather cute Genio. But their adventures on the road are more than somewhat unmemorable. One exception though is when they come across a villa owned by one Count Bugnello. (Denis Fasolo), who mistakes them for the surveyors who are to advise him on how to stop the local council building a new highway across his beautiful estate. That turns out a bit unexpectedly. Another is when Guilio, now suitably educated in life by the not so dynamic duo, shares with them the glories of the Brion tomb near Treviso, designed by Carlo Scarpa. Not quite sure why he does that but it’s interesting
Very near the beginning there is a somewhat baffling sequence, described as an urban myth, of an elderly worker, Primo Sossai (Gianni Da Re) being given a designer watch as a retirement present by his boss, who arrives by helicopter, while in the background Genio appears to be planning his escape with the loot. I never did get how that fitted into the story – even when Primo makes a brief appearance later on. Like I said, slightly baffling.
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