Psych-Out / The Trip
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Movie Reviews of Psych-Out / The Trip
Movie Review: 60S GROOVY FAR OUT
Summary: 4 Stars
One reviewer claimed The Trip was never released on video. Wrong. Years ago I purchased it when it was released on VHS. Wanted to put it up for sale on Amazon. Started reading these reviews. The American Flag played their music in the Trip and it's great 60s music. Anyone know if the Flag put out any other music like this? Didn't notice the film was cut on DVD. Psyche Out was new to me. Love the way those people looked back then. Too bad they hacked that movie up too. Two GOOD movies from that era. Glad to see people nowadays mirroring that time. And my woman said bellbottoms wouldn't come back.Movie Review: Mediocre movies, but good extra features
Summary: 3 Stars
This double-feature DVD features a couple so-so movies from the late sixties that focus on the hippie movement and especially the drug scene. Even big name actors such as Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper cannot make these movies anything more than truly average.The Trip is the weaker of the two movies. The story is that a guy takes LSD and sees weird things. That's it. Roger Corman directs and he makes it at least visually interesting (occasionally borrowing from his Poe movie sets), but this is generally a mess.
Psych-Out at least has a story, focusing on Susan Strasberg as a deaf girl who is aided by Jack Nicholson and his buddies in finding her brother. Nicholson is good enough, but once again, the focus is too heavy on psychedelia, which was probably okay for the audience at the time, but now it just seems dated. At least this movie gives the hippie scene a realistic grunginess that the Trip lacks.
The special features, including a couple "making-of" documentaries are often better than the movies themselves. As stated before, these are extremely dated movies and are, at most, mildly entertaining (although they might be better if you're stoned). Most of the characters are cliched and even those that aren't are not all that interesting. For a far better movie about that era made in that era, try Alice's Restaurant. For this pair, the best that can be said is that they are occasionally visually nice...otherwise this is three-star material all the way, and only that good because of the extras.
Movie Review: Edited version is a real bummer, man.
Summary: 3 Stars
I know Psych-Out pretty well, so I was very happy when it was released on DVD. Unfortunatly, scene after scene on this disk has been edited, or cut short, so they could fit two movies on one disk, I guess. Max Julian's excellent acid trip is practically cut out of the movie. You miss him paint 'love' over the stop sign as he babbles "beautiful... really beautiful." You might notice that 'Incense and Peppermints' ends abruptly early. This is really awful. I'm sorry to say it, because I've wanted this movie on disk for so long. What more can I say? A fun movie, but you don't get all of it on this disk. I haven't been able to bring myself to see if they left The Trip intact, it's a weaker movie though. These movies are worth adding to your collection. It's just too bad you don't get the whole movie. Why did they do this?Movie Review: Half-baked brownies?
Summary: 3 Stars
Was there nothing that modern technology could do to make the soundtrack to "The Trip" listenable? It sounds muffled and dialogue is sometimes hard to follow - I don't recall having this problem when I saw the film theatrically. Maybe they were trying to re-create the drive-in speaker experience. And why on earth edit "Psych-Out," truthfully the better of the two films? Extras are okay, and thanks for the letterboxing, but this should have been a four-star reissue, at least.Movie Review: I was so excited when I saw Psych-Out was on dvd
Summary: 3 Stars
It is such a fun movie, and has the best cheese that a 60s psychedelic flick can bring. But reading the reviews, and finding that the movie has been cut, is disappointing. Why would they do that?? Can someone post how much is cut from it, and what scenes? I'm still debating whether or not to buy it anyway."The Trip" is pretty boring, but still worth watching once if you're into these kinds of movies.