Does anyone have a review of Tripping the Rift?

[Hand of Evil]

Does anyone have a review of Tripping the Rift?

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I want one too. I saw a commercial for it and it looks...iiiiiiinteresting.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Mmmmm, 43 views and nothing, either no one watched it or is was sooo bad no one wants to admit they watched it!

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

It's like three minutes isn't it? Easier to watch it yourself than read a review!

Anyway, there are a bunch of comments here (warning cartoon nudity):
http://www.pocketmovies.net/detail_99.html


The only reason I know of it is that I used to play EQ with the guy who made it.

 

[Villano]

Mmmmm, 43 views and nothing, either no one watched it or is was sooo bad no one wants to admit they watched it!

I watched it. I'm not sure of the characters names, so I'll just describe them. I'm putting this in a spoiler, just to be safe.

Spoiler

Anyway, the crew sees an ad for a travel agency that promises to take people back to the creation of the universe. Apparently, time travel is possible, but everyone is afraid to go back that far. This starts an argument between the captain, whom I'll call Purple Guy, and the robots, Gold Robot and the Sexy Girl (yes, she's a robot), over whether the universe was created by the Big Bang or God. The robots believe in God, but Purple Guy doesn't.

To make a long story short, Purple Guy and Gold Robot go back to the beginning of time and accidently run over God with their spaceship, killing him. When they get back, they discover the universe is now a pretty great place. You see, no God, means no Devil. No Devil, no evil.

Unfortunately, Purple Guy screws it up by introducing sin and stealing leads to rape, senseless murder, and people blowing up planets. Since there's no good or evil, people have no sense of right and wrong.

Now, Purple Guy and Gold Robot have to go back to the beginning of time and save God.

Overall, I thought it was pretty funny. But then again I have a warped sense of humor. My only real complaint was that there were too many sex jokes. Don't get me wrong, sex jokes are fine, but not one every 3 seconds. Still, as a whole, it wasn't bad.

BTW, before the series started, I did a search to find out more about it. Sadly, I couldn't find much. Even Sci-Fi had no information at all. Of course, this is Sci-Fi, so I really shouldn't be surprised, should I? One thing I did stumble across was that Terry Farrell (Dax of DS9) is doing a voice. I'm guessing that she's the sexy robot (and the Purple Guy kind of sounds like Jason Alexander, but I don't know if it's him).

Also, I think it might have been based on a web cartoon or aired originally in another country since my search turned up a few comments about the nudity being cut for Sci-Fi.

 

[Villano]

It's like three minutes isn't it? Easier to watch it yourself than read a review!

Anyway, there are a bunch of comments here:
http://www.pocketmovies.net/detail_99.html

The only reason I know of it is that I used to play EQ with the guy who made it.

Ah, so it did start as a web cartoon. When I posted my previous message, your link wasn't working. I was getting a "could not find" or "error" message. Now it's working.

You might want to put a "Warning: Cartoon Nudity" along with your link.

 

[Alcareru]

I liked it. IIRC, I saw this in a Star Wars short film festival hosted by Kevin Smith a few years back on Sci-Fi. Its pretty raunchy .I must be getting old because some of this stuff really surpriised me that they got it on.

But I thought it was funny.

And wasnt purple guy voiced by Stepehn Root of Newsradio fame?

 

[Crothian]

WEll, it's now a series on Sci Fi channel. It was mediocre. It had some good humor and too amny overtones. It worked as a short, but not so well as a series.

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

You might want to put a "Warning: Cartoon Nudity" along with your link.

Done.

 

[Ashwyn]

And wasnt purple guy voiced by Stepehn Root of Newsradio fame?

Yup. Gina Gershon is also in the TV version, but I'm not sure which character she's voicing.