Writer Clinton Darke and director Stuart Canterbury tried for a serious sci-fi feature with "Mind Trips", a sexual adventure into the world of Virtual Reality. Unfortunately, like their subsequent sci-fi collaboration: "Pleasure Dome: The Genesis Chamber", the movie fails to develop its interesting premise much beyond a gimmick to generate sex vignettes.
Randy Spears is hardly convincing as a brilliant scientist who develops a computer program that generates holograms that are so lifelike as to behave like sexbots: physical robots for humans to have sex with. An early scene makes this seem like Virtual Reality as we know it today in both porn and Meta's headset simulations, but the tangible physical effect is never explained here.
Ron Jeremy wants to use the discovery for military applications, while Randy and his pal Jon Dough try it out on colleagues, for some hot sex scenes. One scene has them using an accounting nerd at their firm as a test subject to have sex with a simulation of porn star Tracy Adams and in another vignette Victoria Paris is a subject who gets to have a lesbian threesome with Bionca and Amber Woods via the computer program.
Ultimately, Randy faces a big decision -either give up this goofball project and its artificial dream girl played by Deirdre Holland or kiss his beautiful wife Taylor Wayne goodbye -she gives him an ultimatum after almost going ballistic (an unintentionally comical scene of Taylor hoisting a baseball bat, ready to destroy Randy's not-very futuristic computer console).
Shot on film rather than video and boasting attractive sets, animation and production values, the short feature is Old School in presenting concise, rather brief sex scenes rather than the half-hour plus XXX vignettes that are standard in 21st Century porn. Canterbury has cast an impressive lineup of sexy porn actresses, but erred in choosing Taylor Wayne as the scorned/neglected wife, as she seems much more appropriate for the role as the perfect holographic dream girl played by Holland instead.
