By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Chicago Tribune
March 31, 2021
41
The other day I watched two Netflix features back-to-back: “A Week Away,” the faith-based summer camp musical romance, followed by “Bad Trip,” which requires and rewards a different sort of faith.
If you know “The Eric Andre Show,” which I do thanks to an introduction a few years back made by my son, you know that Andre works beautiful, stupid, smart, stupid/smart magic, pranking the universe for the sake of hidden-camera humiliations of all stripes. In “Bad Trip,” which co-stars Lil Rel Howery and Tiffany Haddish, we have one of the more buoyant examples of this comic sub-genre, not quite up to the first “Borat” but way, way out ahead of any of the “Jackass” movies.