AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

hrkepler There are many Roger Corman movies that one can think that they were possible to make under influence of drugs, but in this case Roger Corman actually took LSD as a research for 'The Trip'. Cheesy and occasionally (unintentionally) funny, 'The Trip' remains as one of the trippiest movies ever. The film is shallow by story wise - television commercial director (Peter Fonda) decides to drop acid first time and discovers some things about himself. That's it. A guys first acid trip. And then we seem him taking psychedelic road through colorful hallucinations accompanied with experimental rock and jazz music.'The Trip' is bizarre little film about drug usage. Although there is a warning at the beginning of the film that condemn drugs, but the film itself actually don't give any judgment on the matter. It doesn't have much plot and Peter Fonda still hasn't got his acting game together but the film is still entertaining mostly thanks to its visuals and humor. The high point of the film is when Peter Fonda's character is facing the judge who is played non other than magnificent Dennis Hopper. And all this was written by Jack Nicholson.Recommended to anyone who like plotless but visually striking movies.

ksf-2 Written by the 30 year old Jack Nicholson !! I saw this years ago... never knew he wrote it. One of a handful of films from the 60s and 70s that honestly dealt with drug use (Skidoo. The President's Analyst. The Acid Eaters would come a year later. ) Some AWESOME street and neighborhood scenes of 1960's Los Angeles. Too much fun. Peter Fonda. Dennis Hopper. Susan Strasberg. Bruce Dern. Everything is groovy, man, filmed during the upswing of the flower power years. Is there a plot? Yeah, sort of. Doesn't really matter. Quite the serious disclaimer at the beginning. I guess this film was pretty shocking for the movie patrons at the time, when everyone would have gone to the theater to see it. Pot smoking. Acid. Planning for it, talking about it, and doing it. Tight pants and short skirts. Midgets, Middle Ages. Too weird. The focus and the sound are a little shaky, but who cares. Finally being shown on Turner Classic Movies. Definitely worth watching, for the psychedelic hippies, clothes, and wallpaper. Some interesting extras in the cast list... Brandon DeWilde, Peter Bogdano, Gram Parsons. Fonda, Hopper, Nicholson, and Luana Anders would work together in Easy Rider, of course. Didn't end well for DeWilde or Parsons. Anders died pretty young too. Catch both The Trip and Easy Rider when they come on. Excellent stories.

Cinema_Fan Lookout! The Sixties are here! In the form of flashback and deep reflection of consciousness. It's a pleasant vibe of a collaboration between the likes of Fonda, Hopper, Nicholson and the master of Independent and exploitation cinema Roger Corman, showing us just exactly how the groovy people pass the time of day. With a backdrop of Sixties nostalgia: the cloths, the music and attitudes of the loved-up generation intermingling with the likes of those outside looking in. Being the new-kid-on-the-block Paul Groves (Fonda), who with a little help from his friends, the drug dealing Max (Hopper) and his mentor and guide for the evening John (Bruce Dern) all assisting in providing the first acid trip for Groves.The whole show moves and grooves along in the timeline of circumstance and prediction to the point of it looking like an information-pack on the pros-and-cons of the use of Lysergic acid diethylamide.It does not fully feel like exploitation cinema because it simply does not come across as forcible, overly surreal and altogether exploitive, while picking on points of love, sex, life and death, the film hints at the nicer points of the psychedelic wonders to the point of cliché. Roger Corman (b. 1926) uses visuals and interesting, and intriguing, quick, sharp, colourful edit's to highlight the experience of Groves first time trip, and with a soundtrack of rock (think of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and you're nearly there) and ragtime jazz to help float down stream, it's all, again, very pretty to absorb. The interesting point here is that the viewer here is both traveller and observer, internally and externally, to Groves trip and from the outside looking in it can be a little discouraging to see a fully grown man commenting on the flowing energy of an… orange.The introduction to this film makes a clear warning that not all may be well in the playground of colours and light and to heed this film as a cautionary tale of the use of its subject, LSD. This is pointed out when Groves escapes his controlled environment and runs to the real-time location of the L. A. streets and bars. Finding himself in the home of a very young child, then accosting a woman's washing in the local Laundromat to the reality check of the waitress's comment "You're stoned out of your mind…what's the matter with you guy's? Isn't the real world good enough for you?" Proving that the decade of free love and the doctrine's of Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996) was done, and not too, with free will and personal choice. Not everyone cared for inner transcendence. The dangers of use here is concluded at the final freeze-frame shot of Groves face and his new "…do it tomorrow…" outlook of life and the cracking of the screen to represent the point of no return and the possible damage caused by his experience with his distorted change of mind set.The Trip really is an exemplary work of the nineteen sixties youth counterculture philosophy of turn on, tune in and drop out, which, in the end, in hindsight, just may have been an exploitation movie after all. Just as Messer's Hopper, Fonda and Nicholson new how to exploit the new age thinking to their advantage they new how to adapt to this new age philosophy oh so well. Coming down from this trip to dwell on their next exploits and with experience under their belts, they may need to spread their wings, perhaps maybe an easy ride across country may be forthcoming? A different sort of trip, perhaps?

MisterWhiplash I'm not sure to recommend The Trip as a great look at the psychedelia times of the late 60s, and if it serves any purpose for today. It's now forty years (strange to think it's been that long), and it holds resonance only in that it could provide some with a look at how to do a really trashy art-film with no real moral code to identify, and for the nostalgia of the cast and writer of the project. Corman even admits on the DVD that he tried to take a neutral position to LSD for the audience, despite the opening warning, which was probably a given for the exploitation-nature of AIP at the time, and that Corman really didn't have too many bad things to say about his own trip when he tried LSD. So the film only slightly gives an endorsement for the drug, but not really at the same time- on the one hand one might look at the initial reasoning for Peter Fonda's character Paul to take the drug, that it might open him up and that he might learn something about himself. On the other hand, one might also question as to whether or not complete distortion of reality, insane montages, figures in black cloaks riding on horses, and moments of death coupled with paranoia and occasional sexual joys all colored in psychedelia is worth it.In a way, Corman still has a little of the horror aspects of his 60s Edgar Allan Poe pictures running through here, only through a Tim Leary sensibility. But it's also Corman trying something new, and through a screenwriter, Jack Nicholson, who had taken the drug quite a number of times by then (having read bits of Nicholson's biography, and just looking at his work at this time period, culminating to Easy Rider, shows how much Nicholson was into this culture and time in America). But there's something else too that's intriguing, which is the personal connection of Nicholson's marriage, divorce, and sexual appetite working it's way into the film. They're really some of the best scenes in the film, where ambiguity is worked in with Fonda's severed relationship with his soon to be divorced ex, and how this comes into a big part of his trip (we see some overtly f****-ed up sex scenes, with manic lighting effects and special post-production work included by the great Allan Daviau). Another very fine scene with a darkly comic touch comes when Fonda, wandering a California city after his guide (Bruce Dern, with an awesome beard) loses him, wanders into a laundromat and nearly gets freaky with either/or the woman waiting for her laundry, or the laundry itself.Actually, most of the Trip is freaky, and usually in that quick, cheap Roger Corman style that ends up working more to its advantage than I figured at first. Surrealism, to be sure, isn't really Corman's forte, but he does what he can with making this a whacked-out look at LSD. It's a drug I've never taken, so I can't say whether the film comes close to what an actual 'trip' is really like or not. And this causes sort of a problem for most to watch the film- it captures a 'side' to what a trip must be like, and all in the space of the picture's 80 minute running time. It also ends on a pretty inconclusive note following too much random montage and clips back to earlier in the film (as Paul is supposed to be coming down off the drug). But it was a lot of fun, as mentioned, in a trashy way to see how Corman and Nicholson decided to approach a lot of the hallucinations and visions. Obvious maybe, sure, but the tongue-in-cheek is also shown in a light of this being not too far from being how a trip might actually take hold. And there are two sides to the interest of this trip in Corman's style, how he goes from his standard set-ups in a scene with dialog, like when Paul goes into a random house and gets milk for a little girl, or when Paul first gets into the city and (under fantastic 2nd unit shooting by Dennis Hopper, who also is great as a guru type stoner) we see everything becoming wild and choppy and with music that goes oddly jazzy.The Trip is a capsule that only somewhat delivers a good enough look into the drug community, and more so into the psychology of its writer (who probably took on escapism and promiscuity at the time), and of the chances the filmmaker wanted to take with the subject matter. Far from being really sensational, and it gets nowhere near 2001: A Space Odyssey for visual virtuosity or Easy Rider for a more potent look at the culture and at subjective surrealism. But it's some good fun, and the whole AIP gang made such ambitious collages of items to see and with a delirious Fonda performance that it doesn't out-run its welcome. Cool music by the American Band too.