While the film was made to exploit interest in the counterculture and the drug culture, Corman takes the subject seriously and brings psychoanalysis to the film as the experience dredges up the character’s subconscious.

| Apr 26, 2025

This is simply a beautiful movie about a fellow who takes an acid trip - with all its ups and downs.

| Feb 3, 2020

Some of the camera tricks are corny, but Corman has created one of the most lyrical expressions of sexual pleasure I've seen in the movies, and it's all perfectly decent, too, thanks to prisms and projections.

| Mar 26, 2019

These images more closely resemble a bad dream following an overdose of pepperoni-and-onion pizza than the result of ingesting hallucinogenic drugs.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 25, 2019

Part exploitation flick, part non-preachy message picture, this fractured love-in, scripted by Jack Nicholson and told almost entirely through rapid-fire visuals, is a fascinating period piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2019

The Trip is a psychedelic tour through the bent mind of Peter Fonda, which is evidently full of old movies.

| Feb 25, 2019

when strung out over more than an hour, watching someone else's chemically induced psychotropic experience starts to feel redundant, tiresome, monotonous even

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2016

[UPDATED 2025 REVIEW] Thematically, the film is as shallow as a puddle, but visually, it's a stimulating experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2016

It's not conventionally a good movie; there's little plot to speak of, and 83 minutes of psychedelia becomes a touch repetitive. However, it's still a captivating curio.

| Mar 21, 2016

Curio item: a cultural artifact that reflects the zeitgeist but shallow and disappointing as LSD feature

| Original Score: C | Mar 14, 2013

Although this style of filmmaking has been aped millions of times over on M온라인카지노추천 and television commercials, it's still a pretty radical idea.

| Apr 3, 2012

Unconnected scenes begin to spin off the screen with increasing speed and with no attempt at explanation.

| Jul 7, 2010

In trying to visualize a notion of what Peter Fonda goes through on an LSD trip, Roger Corman has simply resorted to a long succession of familiar cinematic images, accompanied by weird music and sounds.

| Oct 13, 2007

[Fonda] takes a trip with no retribution at all: no death, no disillusionment, but much bikinied girls on sea shores, swirling psychedelia, and mumbling of 'Wow!' by the obligatory Dennis Hopper in the land of a thousand visual clichés.

| Sep 27, 2007

Pretty far out in its own sweet way, and a brave attempt to present the drug experience as something that won't leave you dead in a gutter.

| Sep 25, 2007

A psychedelic splash by Roger Corman noted only for its leads Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2006

Intriguing period curio

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2005

Unusual exploitation, but exploitation just the same.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2004