Tripping the Rift: The Movie
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Movie Reviews of Tripping the Rift: The Movie
Movie Review: Try Skipping the Rift
Summary: 1 Stars
If you were on death row and only had 75 minutes until your execution, Tripping the Rift (The Movie) would be the perfect movie to see: that hour-and-a-quarter would seem to take forever and at the end of it, you'd probably welcome death. As you might guess, I was not very impressed with this movie.
Based on a TV show that I've admittedly never seen, Tripping the Rift is obviously just a few episodes strung together loosely. The principal character is Chode, a sex-obsessed purple alien, who goes traveling the galaxy with his little crew of aliens and a robot named Six (who is in the form of a beautiful woman). Their adventures are crude parodies of such films and TV shows as Young Frankenstein and Desperate Housewives, with a Terminator-ish plot stringing the tales together.
Tripping the Rift is apparently designed for that narrow demographic of teenage boys who have passed puberty but have not developed the intellectual capacity to realize that this supposed animated comedy offers nothing more than recycled jokes and dozens of chesty women. If you like comic sci-fi, try out Futurama. If you like tasteless humor - and I often do - try South Park or Family Guy. If you want something with beautiful women, there are thousands of movies out there, both animated and real, that feature more attractive characters. The only real value in viewing Tripping the Rift is to learn just how bad a movie can be.
Movie Review: Imagine the marriage of Red Dwarf and Futurama
Summary: 2 Stars
This is what would happened if it ended in a bitter, gin soaked, depressed orgy of recriminations and bad feelings. Uninspired, lifeless dialogue, unappealing characters, nothing terrible shocking for a program premised at least in part on pushing boundaries. And, I cannot stress this enough in light of the packaging, the only alien breasts you will see are not very attractive ones.
It's pretty bad, folks.
Movie Review: Surprisingly uninteresting and not particularly shocking...
Summary: 2 Stars
...this DVD caught my eye in my local shop. It touts itself as a trash-talkin', dirty-minded sci-fi parody, shot in shimmery computer animation. Well, the last part is true! The animation is really cool -- fluid, shiny, viscous, and richly detailed.
I should probably say that I am unfamiliar with the TV show...but I do think these kind of spin-off films, if successful, should be able to stand on their own. The Futurama movie could, the Simpsons movie could...but this one really falls flat. As many have commented, it feels like 2-3 episodes stuck together (a space princess mission, a Desperate Housewives parody, and a Terminator knockoff, which provides the thread that links everything). It's disjointed and a bit stilted.
Futurama, to me, seems an apt comparison: a crew of mismatched alien creatures trawl the galaxy in a junky ship looking for adventure and opportunity. While Futurama excels at multi-level, existential plotlines rich with both witty, sophisticated humor and more simple-minded gaffaws, Tripping the Rift feels forced and cynical. Frankly, it's not dirty enough to be titillating or exciting, but it's not savvy enough to be provocative or enlightening...it just feels like a bunch of weird characters swearing at another, yelling, humping, and narrowly avoiding catastrophe.
Bottom line is, there is much better trashy fun stuff than this...I would be curious to check out the series, as folks here imply that it is much better than this.
One the plus side, the voice talent is great. Maurice Lamarche is always fantastic, as is Stephen Root, and Jenny McCarthy is a lot of fun. So that's somethin'!
Movie Review: It REALLY Depends on what you call humor.
Summary: 3 Stars
With Tripping the Rift, you get what you expect. Based on a series primarily showcased on the SciFi Channel, Tripping the Rift was a show that rarely had a plot to give, had many a brash joke to throw to its audience, and did not ignore the idea that sexuality sells - even in animated form. The movie is more of the same, only the movie has more of a plotline to give and many of the jokes seem less like one-liners and more like they were thought-out.
Will you like the movie? Well, I wouldn't go as far as calling it art but, if you enjoyed the series or like some of your jokes really really wrong then you might like this. I personally found the movie to be a lot of fun but have to say that it lived up to its negative lashings as well.
So - maybe you might rent it sometime or find it on TV but it isn't a classic and I can't say that you should look into it without knowing what it is you are checking into first.
Basically, buyer beware and then some.
Movie Review: Sexy, irreverent camp - pure unadulterated fun!
Summary: 4 Stars
Take a wild ride with Chode and his cohorts as they trek through the galaxy, bouncing from one mishap to another all while leaving a trail of mayhem and impropriety in their wake.
Fleeing from a murderous clown robot intent on being the instrument of Chode's demise, the troupe first accept what they expect to be a piece of cake mission protecting one ornery princess. That little job quickly proves harder than it sounded, and a simple bodyguard gig turns into something a lot more complicated. Especially when the clown assassin stalking Chode catches up to them...
Our intrepid crew next find themselves smack dab in the middle of the craziest, horniest little neighborhood they ever saw, complete with a gang of sexy housewives all with a penchant for bedding our three-eyed, purple hero.
The gags are lewd and often just plain silly, but TRIPPING THE RIFT: THE MOVIE makes no pretense at anything other than what it is - pure unadulterated camp. Go into this film looking for anything other than a piece of pure sexy fun, and you will be disappointed. Accept it for what it is, and you just may find yourself relaxing and laughing along with the rest of us.
You'll enjoy some twisted spoofs, such as the neighborhood of women that closely resemble a Bizarro-world cast of Desperate Housewives, but the writers of TRIPPING THE RIFT: THE MOVIE never hesitate to take jabs at themselves along with everyone else. Nothing is sacred, and non one is safe from their irreverent humor, much to viewer's delight!
If you are looking for an important movie that will change your life, then you won't want this movie. If you are in the mood for some good-natured camp chock full of bawdy jokes, then you'll want to pop this one in your DVD player right away!