Tripping the Rift: The Movie
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Movie Reviews of Tripping the Rift: The Movie
Movie Review: This Is A Movie?
Summary: 2 Stars
I was sincerely disappointed in this "movie." I have seen some episode before on the SciFi Channel and like the voice actors and some of gags, but I found this DVD to be severly lacking. As another reviewer states, it looks to be three episodes from the third season edited together, and not very well at that. And not very interesting episodes either. The quality of the animation seems to have declined and it overall didn't hold my interest well.
Now I truly wanted to like this, being a fan of scifi and, erm...adult oriented cartoons, but even the gratuitous sexual situations and characters seemed lackluster. I gave it two stars because I am sure there is an audience out there somewhere for this -- it has a few funny moments. Also for the many scifi references made and great voice acting. Six is always fun to look at (pun on the german word for that number). And the sparse behind the scenes extras were mildly interesting. But on a story/quality level it totally lost me. I can't really recommend it.
Movie Review: New
Summary: 3 Stars
I had never seen the television series, so this was a fresh adventure to me. Seeing the unrated logo plastered on the front with promises of violence and nudity I was at least intrigued. I didn't find really any nudity save for a few alien butts and simple cartoon violence. I did find tons of swearing. More so than seemed necessary. It seemed like they were cursing for the sake of cursing and it took away from my enjoyment of the feature. Luckily I was familiar with Star Trek and various other sci-fi classic shows, otherwise a lot of the jokes might not have worked for me or simple gone over my head. The story itself seems almost like a few episodes of the series cobbled together to make a feature length presentation. This movie wasn't enough to get me interested in the series or want to watch it again.Movie Review: Tripping over a cliff
Summary: 2 Stars
Tripping the Rift is a TV show originally created as a short 3d animated film named "Love and Darph" in 1998. The concept was picked up by the Sci-Fi channel in 2002 and aired in 2004 through 2005. It was canceled and was picked up again in 2007. It has had a total of three seasons so far. The third season was not aired in the United States.
As a television show, it tends to rely on low humor, site gags, sex jokes and potty humor. Plots of the show often revolved around the libido of the purple blob, Chode, the show's central character. His crew, which includes a loudmouth quadruped alien, a sex-bot, a gay robot and a lizard, provide zany antics to complicate things. The antagonist to Chode is his arch-nemesis, Bobo the clown, a goofy Darth Vader type character with a clown-head and a lisp.
Despite the low brow humor, as a show, at least for the first season, it was somewhat original and clever. It's off the wall humor that made fun of famous sci-fi films and TV along with goofy story lines created a somewhat entertaining show. I always saw it as something of a guilty pleasure.
About the movie/dvd:
Tripping the Rift: The Movie, so far as I can tell is at least four episodes of the third season of the show shoehorned together into a movie in an attempt to sell something to US audiences. The four episodes that are sliced and diced together are "Chode Eraser," "Skankenstein," "Raiders of the Lost Crock of */@?#!," and "Witness Protection."
Unfortunately, if this is what the show has become, I must say I'm rather glad it's not being inflicted on US audiences any more. I have not seen any of the episodes of the third season of the show, but I can say that based on what I've seen of the movie, it's lost all of its charm and much of its humor.
The writing has gone downhill in a major way with the plots now just random parodies on TV shows and movies with very little in the way of original humor. The jokes and gags are formulaic and cliché'd. The first season of the show was far more original, and funny, both in plot and humor.
Even more noticeable is the voicework by Jenny McCarthy, who now plays Six (replacing Gina Gershon and Carmon Electra). McCarthy is really bad in the role. Gina Gershon gave Six bite, a sexy tone and interesting character. McCarthy sounds bored and toneless. Of course, writing doesn't help any.
So far as the plot of the movie, while Tripping the Rift's brand of comedy is not something you can expect to be strong on plot, this movie hardly has one at all. The story involves a terminator-like clown chasing after Chode to kill him, but the rest of the film ends up with the characters jumping into one unrelated b-story after another. Nothing fits together and undoubtedly, this Frankenstein like mess hurts everything, since they have no relation to one another at all.
I suppose that's what you get when you cram four 30 minute episodes into a 75 minute film. It certainly was unfunny and boring. I think I laughed out loud once during the entire thing, and the laugh I made was mostly a snort.
On the DVD side, this release is fairly barebones. It includes the movie, a trailer, and a making of featurette. The featurette doesn't say much, though you get to see what some of the voice actors look like.
Bottom line:
Overall, this is one to avoid. It's an unfunny movie made up of 4 episodes of the show that don't fit together. Rent it maybe if you're a fan of the show, but be prepared to be disappointed.
Movie Review: Not Good.
Summary: 2 Stars
This 'film' isn't very good at all. It was like teenagers wrote the script.
Movie Review: If you like the show, you'll love the movie...
Summary: 3 Stars
... but if you don't like the show or find it best taken in small doses, then this movie might be a bit much for you. It certainly goes farther than the show, but do we really need to see naked computer women ogled by aliens and whatnot? I say we need the REAL Jenny McCarthy to do a TTR movie, where we get to see an actual person, um, naked. Okay, that doesn't sound very "sane," but you have to be into juvenile humor (and juvenile *attempts* at humor) to enjoy Tripping the Rift: The Movie.
As the man said: "For people who like this kind of thing, you will find this the kind of thing you like."