review for The Trip on AllMovie

This pretentious, self-indulgent relic of its time stars flower-power poster-boy Peter Fonda as a television director who decides on the advice of Bruce Dern that an LSD trip will purge his mind of the demons which constantly haunt him. He eats the drug and embarks on a night of heavy-handed symbolic hallucinations, each representing some significant aspect of his psyche. He also has sex with a mysterious, mystical hippie girl who helps guide him through his psychedelic quest. Jack Nicholson provided the script for this Roger Corman opus; it definitely bears all the earmarks of a Corman production, not the least of which is a bushel of gratuitous T & A. Watch for Dennis Hopper as the pharmaceutical distributor. In spite of it all, The Trip is still worth a look for '60's buffs and anyone interested to know what an LSD trip doesn't look like.