{"id":14386,"date":"2008-04-11T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2008-04-11T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T01:45:50","slug":"tripping-the-rift-the-movie-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/tripping-the-rift-the-movie-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripping the Rift: The Movie (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My first experience with \u201cTripping the Rift\u201d was on the television show \u201cExposure\u201d on the Science Fiction channel where the series that displayed a variety of independent filmmakers and their short films aired a special \u201cStar Wars\u201d tribute episode. \u201cTripping the Rift\u201d was one of my favorites of the episode and it powered on to be a cult spin-off that I never sadly watched while it was on the air. \u201cTripping the Rift: The Movie\u201d is a serviceable pop culture love letter, with not a single hint of originality, but a great energy that makes it worthy of the watch, even for people who have no idea what the plot is. Because, I sure as hell don\u2019t. I know it\u2019s a Canadian cartoon of the Canuck persuasion, and has a really hot computer animated chick in it.<\/p>\n

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It possesses a shocking amount of sex jokes, and really it\u2019s just compilation of episodes that were eventually combined to be a \u201cmovie,\u201d and it surprisingly works at times. I\u2019m not sure if it was the spastic energy, or the endless pop culture references, but it\u2019s an experience that warrants some portion of viewers, if nothing more than to see the \u201cYoung Frankenstein\u201d homage. Among the voice cast there are some rather notable heavyweights including the great Maurice LaMarche as sexually ambiguous robotic sex slave Gus, the hilarious Stephen Root as Chode, the always insufferable Jenny McCarthy who adds little, except the allure that Six should have. Technically a newcomer to the series, the \u201cmovie\u201d makes a good case for being a good time for a gang of friends and some beer with some very competent computer animation and characters with their own unique appeal. Chode undermines the ability to be cute by his propensity for being foul mouthed and nasty, while his sex slave Six is a male fantasy\u2014and might I add\u2014Chode\u2019s own sex toy.<\/p>\n

The character of Gus is a consistently funny running gag thanks to LaMarche\u2019s always excellent voice work and the rather funny repeated lampooning of C-3PO. Beside, I just wanted to see how the clown Terminator would eventually kill the group of Jupiter 24 (erm\u2026 that\u2019s the name of their spaceship). One of the reasons why I\u2019m constantly down on \u201cFamily Guy\u201d is that it takes any and all pop culture from the last five to ten years and hurls it at us in a rapid fire pace lulling us into thinking the incessant nods to movies and television are comedy and genuine storytelling. In fact, it\u2019s not, it\u2019s just laziness intent on confusing it with storytelling, and the same occurs with \u201cTripping the Rift.\u201d Hey, I love \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d and \u201cStar Wars,\u201d too, but we don\u2019t need so much pop culture references to replace actual plot progression. The numerous writers for \u201cTripping the Rift\u201d assume if it\u2019s familiar, it\u2019s funny, and in actuality, it rarely ever is. The writers breaking the fourth wall often, also isn\u2019t an argument for comedy or originality.<\/p>\n

The humor, when not reliant on our nostalgia, is so random and confusing, it\u2019s tough to enjoy at times, especially when the movie packs in so much distracting noise pollution in the mix. The \u201cmovie\u201d itself also bears the comparison to the aforementioned swill, as it simply just takes three episodes and strings them together with a common plot thread to convince us it\u2019s a movie made for the fans. In reality, it feels like, and is, just three episodes pulled together. Without verification, viewers will easily be able to recognize this as one storyline in the first twenty minutes ends to move on to more adventures with the crew while the tone and atmosphere changes drastically. While it\u2019s not a crime to gauge money from fans, at least be crafty about it, and not so blatant. Watching this \u201cmovie\u201d was a lot like being involved in a car crash; you know that something happened, but you\u2019re not sure what, why, to what extent, and damned if you can explain it to the police. It has a hot robot, some great random humor, and a cult following attached. It\u2019s a definitely watchable comedy, when all is said and done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first experience with \u201cTripping the Rift\u201d was on the television show \u201cExposure\u201d on the Science Fiction channel where the series that displayed a variety of independent filmmakers and their short films aired a special \u201cStar Wars\u201d tribute episode. \u201cTripping the Rift\u201d was one of my favorites of the episode and it powered on to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,70,71,99,219,906,973,1020],"class_list":["post-14386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-adult","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-science-fiction","tag-spoof","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}