Such a frustrating disappointment

Sorry, this movie sucks

hyped garbage

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Ten years on from my original review of this film I find I have to replace my comments with a new and more appreciative piece. Seem I was unimpressed with Fonda's performance, unappreciative of the score and trigger happy with the 'fast forward' button throughout. Well, either I was watching very late at night or the Blu-Ray print is such an improvement. Maybe both. Fonda is fine, he is a little stilted now and again but he is tripping indoors with a very sober (and effective) Bruce Dern or outdoors amidst 'ordinary' folks of LA. Bit like being naked whilst everyone else is clothed. Talking about clothes or lack of them, the sex scenes are very well done indeed, not an area I would have considered Corman a great exponent, plus the club scenes with partially naked dancers are also excellent. It is true that it might have been more appropriate for the entire score to be full on psychedelic but they probably couldn't afford it and it may have been a bit too much. As it is the music starts fairly low key but builds well and without becoming overpowering well compliments all those crazy visuals. All in all a fine 'time capsule' and most effective capture of a moment in time, namely the year 1967.

This movie has possibly the-best-trapped-in-a-closet-scene, EVER!!I'm serious, I actually can't even think time a film has even come this close to accurately recreating the experience of being trapped in a closet.Also that bit where he is running amok on the street with all the saxophone playing, sheer madness. Just like in real life.And that bit on the couch with the kid on the couch, I WAS THERE! Running from his confused father, it happened!***SPOILER ALEART***At one point he gets trapped in a closet and it is A-MAZ-ING !!

Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD.The film was directed by Corman, written by Jack Nicholson, starring Bruce Dern with a beard, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. How can that be bad? The biggest problem is that the plot is relatively weak and relies heavily on some wild kaleidoscopic visuals. That may not be a problem -- I mean, there are still great actors and a dwarf -- but it is a noticeable flaw.

Roger Corman did very well with this "drug film". "The Trip" makes very good sense. Jack Nicholson did an excellent job as a writer for this film as well. Peter Fonda plays Paul, an TV commercial director who has some issues to come with. His wife(Susan Strausberg) is divorcing him because she is downright unfaithful. He would later meet with John(Bruce Dern) who would help him cope, with LSD. Once he has taken it, Paul's world would never be the same. He wouldn't touch anything else when he was at Max's(Dennis Hopper) pad. The tripping out was so intense, he would see things he could never imagine. The strange characters consists of a dwarf, hooded characters, a cackling witch, and women in all sorts. Along with the different strobes of lights, the acts of sex comes to play as well. The wife and other women is so intentionally bold, who would want to think of anything else. Tripping out was big in the 1960's, was also the scariest , Paul would imagine he has found John dead in which he wasn't. He would also think the police was after him following the entry of the little girl's house or the incident at the laundromat. At the end of the trip, he would find himself happy with another woman. What more could you ask for? Going out can exhilarating, but most can get a little overboard, this is indeed far out! 4 out of 5 stars