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Tripping the Rift: The Movie

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(22)
2 star:		(19)
1 star:		(17)

 

 

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!

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.

This Canadian-made television series used to be shown on Sci Fi Network in America, but it doesn't seem to be shown any more. This "movie" (quotation marks explained later) follows Chode, horny purple amoeba-head and the crew of the Jupiter 42 as they try to escape the Arnie 1000 an indestructible robot assassin set on their tail by the disgruntled parents of Babette...see Chode supposedly impregnated Babette and her parents send the Arnie 1000 back from the future to kill Chode before the coupling occurs...really it's just an excuse for a lot of dick and boob jokes, sexual innuendo and some entertainment industry satire AND a whole lotta bad language.

And for what it is, it's really rather good. The animation is well done. The voice acting is good. And there are a lot of larfs...some of the humor might not wear well as time goes on--come on, most of the world is trying to forget "Apocolypto." But it's fun...Parodies of Desperate Housewives, T2, Young Frankenstein (with some of the same jokes), and AVP.

Now for the explanation of the quotes: It's fun...unless you've seen season three. This is actually four episodes of season three strung together (Witness Protection, Skankenstein, Raiders of the Lost Crock of *@#?!, and Chode Eraser). SO, it's a solid rental or a good buy for completists.

Oh, and there is no nudity really...just some scantily cladedness. All privates are kept private.

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.

i have seen every episode from season three you can view them on the tripping the rift web site all they did was take a few episodes from season 3 and edit and overlaid them in to this movie i love tripping the rift from when it was just an internet spoof cartoon all the way up to its tv series but come on why did i pay for something like this if you arent going to produce the series in the states at least wait untill the seasons over and just release it to dvd i will most defently download stuff like this before buying it next time i hope the dont ruin the new futurama movie like they did with this one

Like the title says, this is just a few episodes from the third season edited together to make a 78 minute movie. The episodes cannibalized were Skankenstein, Chode Eraser, Witness Protection and Raiders of the Lost Crock of */@?#!".

Just like when the Ewoks and Droids Movie DVDs were released a few years ago, production companies just edit episodes together and try to pass them off as something new. Just another way to squeeze us for more money!

This is just rehashed eposodes and is a waste of money . On the back of the box , it reads "Gratuitous Nudity" and it's a "Real #@!&% movie" , and it's none of these things . THERE IS NO NUDITY and as I said before , it's just a rehash of old episodes .


This DVD is lame !

Combine Star Wars, Star Trek and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The books ) with soft porn and you have Tripping the Rift:The movie.

This animated feature should have been put on Sci Fi Channel, but the suggestiveness would been too strong for American TV.

To reveal the plot would spoil the fun for you who would buy and watch this satire. Lets just say our heroes need to protect a bratty foul mouth Princess..and let your imaginations run wild with their antics

This funny satire spoofs and parodies everyone and everything science fiction and fantasy with charm of a BULL ELPHANT..But that is what makes this film something to get. and that alone is why you should get the series and this movie on DVD

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

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!

The Movie is basically several shows from the third season hacked together. You're better off just buying the 3rd season and skip this one.