Bad Trip

Bad Trip knows how to stir things up, and its funniest scenes often involve real people getting in the mix, tested by the brilliant skills of André, Howery, and Haddish.

As if to counteract the bummer of watching a raucous comedy on Netflix rather than in a theatrical setting, Bad Trip comes equipped with its own crowd energy—a collective faith that there’s no idiotic stunt that can’t be pulled back from the brink of disaster.

Unlike Baron Cohen’s work, André seems to invite his targets to crack up with him, and they’re more than happy to oblige. Bad Trip is an extension of that all-inclusive approach: It’s a blunt instrument of absurdity, but that’s also what makes it so much fun.

Honing in on Andre’s uncanny ability to lure random people to participate in his absurdity is Bad Trip’s greatest strength. As every narrative beat he wishes to subvert can only happen if people buy into what he’s doing, it’s a fascinating double-edged sword to participate in as an audience member too.

The result is sniggering slapstick that’s two-parts biological fluids and one-part salute to the innate empathy of mankind, often in the same scene.

There are a few scattered laughs.

However effortful, the movie’s tricks are more likely to activate your gorge than your funny bone.

Hilarious! If you like Tom Green, Sasha, and the likes, then you'll love this. It had me bursting out with laughter. It was a little gross at times, but effective.

Bad Trip is a good time that is made even better by the fact that, outside of the central characters, all of the reactions are genuine because of the hidden camera style. A few of the pranks were really disgusting and hard to watch, and this isn't a movie that will evoke any sort of emotion in you. The scenes that had only the main characters were also pretty underwhelming and definitely the weakest part of the movie. The best part was seeing the crowd reactions, so I wish they wouldn't have strayed away from that so often. However, even with these flaws, it is quite funny and worth a viewing if you've got 90 minutes to burn.

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Johnny Knoxville did it a whole lot better, a long time ago. Did people forget about it?

Their “boldest” lines are obviously dubbed. Cant make a good movie without risk. I would never watch a movie where the actors are too afraid to say the actual lines in public and have to result to adding them in in post.