Bad Trip DVD Review:

With supporting actors like Ethan Suplee and Kevin Connolly as the lead characters in a film, the script had better be top-notch. There is little room for error when using familiar faces which are not celebrities. In Bad Trip, this is probably why Coolio was thrown into the mix. In a clever scheme to put a name that people at the video store might recognize, Coolio plays three twins in the film, one of which is dead within the first five minutes and the other of which is a female. If this sounds awful, then you are on the right track.

Josh and Sam are forced to take off on a trip, so they decide to go to Mardi Gras, but somewhere on their way from Washington D.C. they run over an escaped convict and kill him. While they are first heroes to the local sheriff, things take a turn for the worst when he finds them with a joint in their pocket. Suddenly they are stuck in hail with all of the friends of the man they just ran over. In order to make it out alive they must begin favors for the local drug dealers, while avoiding the sheriff and the siblings of the man they ran over.

If this film is supposed to be a comedy, it isn’t funny enough, especially with the weak attempt that Coolio has at humor. If it is meant to be an action film, there is only a small bit of action towards the end and it is far too awkward to be good. My only hope is that the filmmakers didn’t expect that anyone would take the plot seriously enough to ever consider it a drama. Far too much of this film is taken too seriously considering what a silly concept it is, and what substandard actors were hired to play the roles. Kevin Connolly may be the only actor that plays a role he has done time and again, the smart-ass sidekick, and the rest of the actors are horribly mis-cast.

The DVD cover is the first problem with this DVD, since it is the first thing consumers will see. It looks like a comedy, which is fine, but the photos are blurry and scream of amateur home video. On top of that, the car on the cover is a different color than the one in the film. A small detail that was missed, like so many small details in the movie.

The picture quality of the film is also quite bad, especially in the first scene driving at night. The end is also grainy and hard to see. It seems that the filmmakers never learned how to shoot darkness in a way that things can still be seen by the audience. The audio is also sub-standard, but isn’t quite as noticeable as the video.
The special features include:

-Full Screen version of the film
-Coolio and Krayzie Bone Video “I Don’t Want to Die”
-Trailers
-English and Spanish Subtitles



Ryan Izay