Tripping the Rift: The Movie
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Movie Reviews of Tripping the Rift: The Movie
Movie Review: Simply okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I caught a few episodes of this show on Sci-fi and was somewaht entertained by it. It was a cross-between Star Trek with the raunchiness of Family Guy. But this DVD did not quite deliver.
The DVD had its moments, there were some good gags but most of the jokes are basically restricted to T&A jokes, sexuall innuendos and foul language just for the sake of being more "adult".
Overall, it wasn't bad but it wasn't as well as I had expected it to be either. So, three stars overall.
Movie Review: Not as good as the series was
Summary: 3 Stars
There are some good parts to this dvd. In fact it parodies many diffent current tv show and movies- especially terminator. However it just never takes off. Also since the writers could now cuss as much as they want, instead of writing a clever line to get past the censors, they just drop the F bomb left and right. Which is really dissapointing. If you were a fan of the show get the dvd, it is a nice fix to show no longer on the air. If you not a fan, check it out if you a fan of the south park style humor give it a shot.Movie Review: "You know, four movies went into the making of this film..." -- MST3k
Summary: 1 Stars
The back cover of the DVD case screams, "Foul Language! Senseless Violence! Gratuitous Nudity! It's A Real #@!*&% Movie!" While that last claim may be stretching the boundaries of the definition of "movie", I vastly agree that those promises have been fulfilled.
But there is a problem.
Despite all the rudeness, despite all the over-the-top excesses, despite all the foul language and salty dialog, the movie is not actually funny.
Now, before criticizing the film's drawbacks, it should be noted that this almost can't be considered a movie at all. According to information I spent sheer minutes researching on the Internet, this is not a feature-length movie based on the television series of the same name. Rather this is three or four random episodes of said television series edited together into a seventy-five minute whole. The story-line jerks wildly from place to place with no thought given to structure or pacing. Audiences won't have been this confused since Robert Denby randomly appeared halfway through RIDING WITH DEATH with only a crudely attempted ADR to explain his presence.
Out of a sense of obligation rather than for any real desire on my part, I will attempt to give a brief summary. A band of intergalactic misfits travel around the galaxy and have adventures; think "Futurama" but with more sleaze and less laughter. In this film, they get hired as bodyguards for a princess, plan a birthday part for Chode (the short, purple, tentacled thing), escape from a robotic assassin of the future, and hang out in an episode of Desperate Housewives.
There are a lot of movie and television parodies, but the film doesn't do anything interesting with the source material. The producers mostly just repeat scenes from other films without actually making them funny (or even different). And that's emblematic of this film's main flaw. It goes to a lot of trouble to set up a platform on which to tell jokes, and then it completely forgets to tell jokes.
I could almost forgive this film had it tried its hand at comedy but failed. The problem is that it barely even tries. It seems to believe that naughty language by itself will make anyone laugh. It confuses simple duplication of well-known cinematic set pieces with parody. And it simply gives up when attempting new material. These days, there are a lot of choices when looking for science-fiction comedies; try one of those other options instead.
Movie Review: Exactly what you'd expect: crude and funny!
Summary: 4 Stars
Look, it's computer-generated animation and decidedly limited in what it looks like. So, whatd'ya want? This is really funny. The actions are a little simple and so is all of the college-level modeling; Give that, RIFT THE MOVIE is pretty well assembled and really great and dumb viewing.
Chode gets himself in some procreatin' trouble and is chased by a Terminator from the future, across a black and white horror parody, settling back in a Desperate Housewives segment and pursued through an Indiana jones jungle adventure. And that's just the overview: tons of dirty, foul-mouthed gags that are lowest common denominator one-liners and that's it in a nutshell. If your concept of humor is Adult Swimmin' through animated vulgarity, well, you're probably one of my buddies. RIFT's a darn funny DVD that you can hang back with among your idiot buds and cheap pizza to watch.
Totally worth rewatching just to catch all of the stuff that you missed and relaugh it all.
Movie Review: I can't believe they call that a MOVIE!!
Summary: 2 Stars
That is just ridiculous..that so called movie is in fact 3 episodes put together. Actually, I saw them on TV last week. That was just a failed attemp to make money on our backs..