The Trip
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Movie Reviews of The Trip
Movie Review: Fantastic movie!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Moving love story! Entertaining, emotional...this film will take you back to memories of your first love, you know - the one who in your youth brought you out of your closet kicking and screaming. The Trip is a romantic comedy that manages to show love at its best and worst, deepest and shallowest, most joyous and most tragic.It's an hour and a half in the dark after which you won't lament the price of admission. In this era of TV-show adaptations and There's Something About Mary rip-off's, this renders it just shy of a gem. The triumphs and tragedies of love, not to mention a host of uncomfortable social situations, transcend the era of the film and create scenarios with which most gay men can relate.
Sirena Irwin is hilarious as Alan's hippie chick lover turned power yuppie entrepreneur. MTV alumnus Julie Brown turns in a totally gnarly cameo as a receptionist with a flare for eighties style. But former Bond girl Jill St. John steals the show in her supporting role as Alan's meddlesome, liberal, and alcoholic mom. Finally something bigger than just a movie. Finally a gay romantic comedy that is not about two boys meeting-cute-and spending twenty four hours in extended, cheesy bliss. The Trip aspires to be a gayer version of The Way We Were.The Trip follows two men (wonderfully played by Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun), as they meet through recent gay history. Watching their {Tommy & Alan} tentative attempts to reconcile time and distance is alternately sweet and heart wrenching. A touching love story, The Trip is also an entertaining, Cliff's Notes version of the history of gay rights and the evolution of the gay community.
Movie Review: BEST HOMOSEXUAL FILM OF 2003
Summary: 5 Stars
The lead actors (Sullivan and Braun) give outstanding performances and explode with chemistry on screen. Their talent shows them capable of not only drama but also comedy with great timing. Definitely leading men material and we will definitely see more of them on the big screen. The great performances do not stop with these two alone. Jill St. John who plays Mary, the ex Las Vegas Showgirl and hip mother, returns to her first role on the big screen since 1992 and nails an untouchable performance showing great comedic range and makes the audience glad to see her back on the screen. Sirena Irwin and Alexis Arquette also give memorable performances. I love it when a cast not only works hard to achieve a great performance but work together as an ensemble to help each other's performance. It clearly shows in this film the actors performances are giving and supportive of each other. The Trip not only entertains but also provides a history lesson/refresher. Swain has combined some footage and dialogue that takes you back to one of the most turbulent times in homosexual history. Swain has delivered a great package of script, actors and direction for his debut.At the start of this winning indie drama set in '73, budding journalist Alan Oakley (Larry Sullivan) is still clinging to his het-Republican identity by penning The Straight Truth, an indictment of homosexuality--although Tommy Ballenger (Steve Braun) eventually helps him realize the folly of such denial. First-time writer-director Miles Swain demonstrates a keen sensitivity to the subtleties of developing relationships, and his pacing is lively.Movie Review: Yeah, don't compare this to Thelma and Louise
Summary: 5 Stars
Another reviewer gave The Trip 1 star and said not to compare this movie to Thelma and Louise. I studied Thelma and Louise in a film class, and I can tell you this: that entire movie was based on the most ridiculous set up I have ever witnessed: first we have Thelma, who is so afraid of her husband's revolver that she holds it with her thumb and finger - like someone would hold a turd or something radioactive. Then, we're supposed to believe that despite her INTENSE aversion to this gun, she decides to bring it along on their trip. (GIVE ME A BREAK) 2nd, we have Ms. Louise. Louise is totally in control, a neat freak, a bit anal about the cleaning around the house, etc, etc. Bottom line, she's miss cool customer, in control at all times. Except of course when we need the ridiculous plot twist where Louise completely loses control, pulls out the gun that Thelma brought, and then shoots and kills a man just because he insulted her! Oh my god. That is the most ridiculous set up ever. The entire movie is based upon this completely irrational event. So I agree with the uninformed reviewer that said not to compare the Trip to that crappy movie...The Trip is a sweet movie with moments of hilarity and at no point do the characters do things which are completely ridiculous and insanely implausible given their personality and character development - something which that other movie cannot say, not that I'm comparing them or anything! ;-)Movie Review: Amazing Nostalgia
Summary: 5 Stars
I can tell from reading the other reviews that most of the people who enjoyed this movie are old enough to remember what it was like. Hot damn! How often do I have to bite my tongue when some young thing equates being gay with the new shows or to what we see nowadays in popular media. So sad! Angels in America and this movie remind us the AIDS is not over and all is not honky dorry for gays. Kudos to Queer Nation for storming the RNC and demanding loan forgiveness for AIDS embattled African nations!
In an age of such cynicism and a shop till you drop mentality it's so very refreshing to see a movie like this one that reminds us that gay human rights have been and are fundamentally about the right to love.
My partner and I are lucky. We have each other, two wonderful children and a large community of friends. We both cried when we watched this movie because our own love story could have easily turned out as sour in the end if not for one enchanted moment we spent in Mexico together. This movie was almost written for the two of us, you see.
Good luck to this director and to all courageous gay writers who are unafraid to tackle real love who do not to pander to the lowest common denominator in search of skin and easy outs.
A friend of ours knows Mr. Swain and she tells us he is an absolute sweetheart and a total gem of a guy.
Movie Review: A Good Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a professional film critic nor do I have an understanding of the professional criteria by which to determine a good or bad film. I am not a person who watches films as I perfer books instead. Having said this, I need to say this film touched me and why.
I have my own criteria for determining a good or bad film: let me list them. Within the film's context is the story line believable? Do the actors allow the personality of their characters to flow onto the screen? Does the film manage to hold my continuing interest? And lastly, do I wake up the next morning thinking about the film and its characters - does the film take on a life of its own?
Using my criteria, I have to answer "yes" to the the above. In fact it is 4:45 AM PST and I am motivated to write this review and to give it four stars.
My life span, so far, has covered the general time period of the film and I recognized the historical events and emotions protrayed. Maybe that is why the film took on a significence for me.
One last comment: Being a romatic, I like happy endings and this one has a bitter-sweet one. Although I would have perferred a "happily ever after" end, the film was far more effective with the one it has - hence the fifth star. Kudos to those involved.