Tripping the Rift: The Movie
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Movie Reviews of Tripping the Rift: The Movie
Movie Review: Better Than I'd Feared But Worse Than I'd Hoped
Summary: 3 Stars
For me Tripping the Rift: The Movie ultimately disappoints like the oft-compared South Park and Team America: World Police and for the same general reason: the jarring juxtaposition of sophisticated cleverness and crude stupidity; however, the latter at least aim higher than the crotch a lot of the time. In contrast the former's nice looking computer animation and varyingly clever movie and TV parodies are mostly combined with foul language and crude sexual humor that usually ceases to be laugh out loud funny by one's early teens. The result is both unsuitable for family viewing AND unwilling to push the envelope very far. To take one example, jokes about Gratuitous Nudity might be funnier if their WERE some,... nudity that is. Gratuitous NON-nudity seems more than a little pointless.
The parodies were also somewhat uneven. That of Young Frankenstein seemed rather forced; how DO you parody a parody after all? That of The Adventures of Indiana Jones started well but ended pointlessly, and that of Desperate Housewives went nowhere fast. Only that of The Terminator Series approached true genius,...
which is probably why they chose to make it the frame story of this somewhat dishonest compilation of four episodes of season three strung together (Skankenstein, Raiders of the Lost Crock of ****, Witness Protection, and Chode Eraser as the frame story). As a result, I can only recommend this as a rental, something to check your reaction to before going to any expense or effort to view the first two seasons: Tripping the Rift - The Complete First Season and Tripping the Rift - Season Two.
Movie Review: Episodes from the third season presented as a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
"Tripping The Rift: The Movie" isn't as funny as it's creators seem to think it is.
The plot--a Terminator-like cybord that looks like a clown is hunting Chode to kill him. Chode and the crew are clueless as to why the clownborg is looking for him but, as usual, it's Chode's own fault and he can't help but try and blame someone else for it.
"Tripping the Rift" can be amusing. The operative word here is CAN but beyond the initial segment which spoofs "Young Frankenstein" (how can you spoof a spoof? Hit the same obvious targets repeatedly...)with some amusing twist and turns to the plot. The "plot" finds Chode and his crew stuck on a planet where they are body guards to the princess from hell. They're supposed to protect her from harm at the expense of their lives. Naturally they fail and this forces Chode and his crew to improvise something that seems to come naturally whenever they screw something up.
Most of the rest of the targets from "The Terminator" to "Desperate Housewives" aren't really rewarding material for comedy "Rifts". The extras are minimal featuring brief interviews with the various actors that provide the voices for the characters.
If you must see this, I'd recommend renting it first.
Movie Review: Really Bad, and I'm a FAN!
Summary: 1 Stars
Ok, I've been a big fan of Tripping the Rift since it was first showed on Sci-fi. i own all seasons and watch them about once a month or every two months or so. It's just one of the great shows that you can watch repeatedly. I saw this in the store yesterday and figured that it had to be good. Well, I was severely wrong. First off, they did even have the same people doing some of the voices so that immediately messed up the flow of things. If you've ever watched the show, Carmen Electra does the voice of Six, well, Jenny McCarthy does the voice in this one and I think the writers and producers knew that it wasn't going to fly so Six says like 5 or 6 sentences the entire movie. If you're a fan, you know she talks almost as much as Chode. Another thing they really did poor with was time filling. I think to make it a movie, they just combined 3 episodes into one, 3 poorly written episodes at that. It was such a bad movie, it couldn't hold mine or my wifes attention. I actually almost fell asleep watching this, and it was 6 o'clock in the afternoon! The next thing they did bad was language. I'd expect curse words from this show, if I don't get them I'm mad! :) Well, they went too far in this movie. I use certain words all the time so I have no problem with language, but this was done so poorly that it just wasn't funny or attention getting. I think, to push the barrier of what they could do, the writers had Chode saying a curse word as every other word in his sentences. Basically, rather than saying, "Holy S***! That's F****** HUGE!", he would say something like, "G**D*** That's a F****** Huge A** Son-of-a-***** F******* Thing right F******* There!". The use of curse words was soooooo poor that you couldn't understand what they were saying half the time.
Overall, this was an abomination and a disgrace to the Tripping the Rift series. The writers of this should be taken out to a field, made to dig a hole, then shot and buried in the hole they dug. I would never recommend this to anyone and really wish I could get my money back. This won't make it from the Tv to my DVD stand it's that bad. I'm giving it away as soon as I can. hopefully someone else will get stuck with it. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, DO NOT BUY!!!!! Save your money for something good!
Movie Review: Trippin the rift movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the series and i had to have this one if your a fan of trippin the rift you will love this one.unbelievable funnyMovie Review: I wish it had been better
Summary: 2 Stars
I like Sci Fi. I Like animation. I like low-brow comedy. This should have been a movie I loved, right? Eh.
First, the writing was poor. The vast majority of the jokes were predictable, hackneyed, and cliche. There was a loose plot line, which went mostly out the window for the major subplots. The subplots were basically three movie/tv parodies loosely scrapped together without much coherence.
Of course, the box makes a big to-do over the fact that this is an unrated filth-fest. What they mean by this is that there is a lot of gratuitous swearing. I mean gratuitous in the real sense of the word - swearing for no apparent reason.
I'm no prude but the swearing seemed to be shoehorned into the dialogue to provide shock value (which it didn't). How many times can you hear a character slap the f-word in front of the subject of his sentence before it becomes boring? Well, you're going to get that a lot. A good comedy writer could have a field day with flinging insults between characters, which makes it disappointing when they mostly fling standard expletives at each other.
The comedic timing is way off (mostly too slow), and the dialogue seems cobbled together. I'm guessing the voice actors each recorded their lines separately and the sound editor did what he could to put them together.
The CG animation is good and visually very interesting.
The "star studded" voice cast includes "stuttering" John Melendez and Jenny McCarthy.
The DVD extra is "Making of Tripping the Rift". This is nothing more than a couple of very short interviews with the voice actors.