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Bad Trip is a hidden camera comedy movie featuring Eric Andre, Lil Rey Howery, and Tiffany Haddish. Right off the bat this movie is crass, gross, and very nsfw (not safe for work). With that said, I absolutely loved it.
Eric Andre is one of those guys that really has no shame. He has quite literally made a career out of making a fool of himself in public. In Bad Trip, he takes it to the nth degree to hilarious effect. Him and Howery play two friends from Florida who go on a road trip to connect with Eric's character Chris's crush Maria, played by Michaela Conlin. They take Howery's character Bud's sister's car played by Tiffany Haddish, who escapes from prison and chases them down and threatens to kill them for taking her car.
The plot is simple and nonsensical, however it serves its purpose perfectly. That purpose being to put Eric Andre in the most insane positions and doing the most insane things around normal people and catching their reactions on camera.
The movie starts with a bang as Chris's clothes get sucked right off his body and he's left butt-naked as he tries to detail a customer's car. The customer is freaking out and hands Chris the jacket off his back to cover up when Maria happens to drive into the lot. The antics only escalate from there as Chris get drunk and falls off a ledge onto some boxes then proceeds to violently expel an exorbitant amount of fake vomit all over everyone there. He gets his and Bud's penises stuck in a Chinese finger trap and asks random people to help get them out. He even gets held dangling off the side of a building by Tiffany Haddish's character Trina and starts begging bystanders to convince her not to drop him.
I really enjoyed how seamlessly the movie transitioned from hidden camera to scripted scenes to keep the story moving. None of the hidden camera moments felt forced. I felt like the hidden camera moments actually acted like a meta take on scripted comedy movies. It was almost like they were trying to show that if the protagonist in a comedy actually acted as unhinged in real life, this is how the world around them would actually react. Maybe I'm looking to deeply into a movie where Eric Andre's character offered to blow an army recruiter, but I just couldn't help imaging how extras in a scripted comedy would be written in those same situations.
This movie also felt like a nice reminder that most people in this world are inherently good and willing to help at a moment's notice. Going back to the scene where Chris is vomiting profusely, a patron who was a nurse braved the disgusting spew to try and help him and get someone to call an ambulance. In one scene Bud and Chris are fighting with one another after their car flips over, and this random bystander tried his hardest to calm them down and separate them while also keeping them away from the flaming car. It reminded me of the show "What Would You Do?" with John Quinones, which is a very popular hidden camera show that puts people in difficult or strange situations to see how they'd act and react. I can never get enough of hidden camera shows and movies.
I didn't expect to enjoy this movie as much as I did, and at under 90 minutes, I think it's worth a watch if you like absurd physical comedy and hidden camera films. But it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea and I highly suggest you check the content warnings before watching if you get bothered by gross things and the like.