Trippin' is a 1999 American comedy film directed by David Raynr and starring Deon Richmond, Maia Campbell, Donald Faison, and Guy Torry.

The website's consensus reads: "Trippin' struggles to balance its raunchy teen comedy elements against an unfortunate tendency towards preachy moralizing.

Robert Dominguez of the New York Daily News wrote: "Picture Walter Mitty as a black high school senior and you get the essence of 'Trippin'', a disjointed, lowbrow comedy about a teen coping with his uncertain future through daydreams.

Unlike Danny Kaye's milquetoast Mitty character, however, Greg Reed's (Deon Richmond) flights of fancy are often raunchy, R-rated affairs complete with a rap music score and scantily clad video vixens which should appeal mightily to the film's urban-teen target market."

"[4] Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote: Wrapped like candy in a sure-fire come-on of bouncing bosoms and firm young female bodies, "Trippin'' is a sermon aimed primarily at teen-age black male high school students.

It’s not too dissimilar from the teen movies that have proliferated this season; Trippin' looks a lot like an Afterschool Special goosed with dirty words and R-rated sex.

"[6] Steve Murray of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that the film "keeps trippin’ up on its own mixed message" by "pandering to the basic instincts of its target teen audience.

Even Cinny never gets to be more than an idealized dream girl One of the film’s subplots has June getting pressed into service by the neighborhood drug dealer The plot seems to be an excuse to trot out a “Terminator”-style fantasy for G an ammo-heavy revenge scenario that’s difficult to enjoy so soon after the Littleton, Colo., slayings.

[7] Nick Carter of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said: You think it’s crazy to make a movie running through the oldest and boldest caricatures and stereotypes of African-American culture?

[8] Renee Graham of The Boston Globe gave the film only one star and wrote that it "manages to prove only that Hollywood finds black teens as inane, thick-headed, uninspired, and sex-mad as their white counterparts", adding: The movie is stupidly written by Gary Hardwick, flatly directed by David Raynr, and poorly acted by all involved; the mind boggles to think that someone somewhere thought this mess would work as a movie.

And I'm still trying to figure out the film's connection to LA Lakers star Shaquille O'Neal, whose TWISM (which stands for The World Is Mine) clothing line gets plenty of screen time.

[9] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle castigated the film, writing: "Trippin'" is the movie equivalent of a bug not worth squishing.

Still, there are so many grim and gritty urban violence movies that it's good to see nice African-American kids in a comedy, even if it's so lacking in imagination that it finds it necessary to hang them upside down.

[11] Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press wrote that "it's not difficult to figure out where "Trippin' " is headed, but compared to most movies aimed at young African-Americans, it takes the high road.

"[13] In Canada, Norman Wilner wrote in The Toronto Star that the film "takes a perfectly good coming-of-age story and wrecks it by piling on a lot of dopey trimmings.