Writer-producer Donick Cary has spent his whole career near the top of the showbiz comedy heap, from stints on “Late Show with David Letterman” and “The Simpsons” to sitcoms like “Just Shoot Me!,” …
has spent his whole career near the top of the showbiz comedy heap, from stints on “Late Show with David Letterman” and “The Simpsons” to sitcoms like “Just Shoot Me!,” “New Girl,” “Parks and Recreation” and “Silicon Valley.” So it shouldn’t surprise that his first directorial feature, the documentary “Have a Good Trip,” is less a serious dive into its chosen subject than an excuse to have a lot of familiar-face colleagues and acquaintances serve up funny anecdotes.
At least there’s little pretense otherwise, as we start out with clips from vintage LSD scare films , then jump to Nick Offerman as a nominal-host “scientist” in a laboratory. He admits, “Don’t get me wrong, drugs can be dangerous … but they can also be hilarious.” After duly psychedelic cartoon opening credits, we meet the first of numerous celebrities who tell tales of personal trippage in chaptered, standalone sequences., whose reminiscences are amusing.
Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and Flower Power pop star Donovan appear briefly to represent the hippie era’s earnest lysergic and psilocybic experimentation. But with the primary interviewees here being much younger, “Have a Good Trip” is dominated by folks who did drugs with no higher goal in mind than fun. Some admit having done “a lot” of acid or ’shrooms, yet there’s very little discussion of how it changed them, or what if anything they learned.
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