He's Got Everything T rippin' opens with an impressively choreographed song and dance number, carefully emulating a Hype Williams rap video. Player's in his big white house, laying on his big white bed, surrounded by big-breasted girls in skimpy bikinis. He's got the silky sheets, the toasty fireplace, the well-stocked liquor cabinet, the styling sunglasses, the slow motion sways and pelvic thrusts. Indeed, it appears so. Until the alarm clock rings and he's got to get up.
Most folks can empathize that far.
But most high school movie protagonists don't resemble you at all, unless you're white, straight and male, someone like James Dean, Judd Nelson, Ferris Bueller, James Van Der Beek, or Tom Cruise in his underwear. Not that high school movies haven't included black characters or done the House Part scheme to death. But Trippin' tries to make the white cliches more egalitarian, such that G's daydreams of success include himself as the record mogul, the Terminator, and the college boy getting all the booty he can handle. This device has its ups and downs. G is a charismatic, intelligent protagonist, confused enough by the rigors of high school social life that most everyone might recognize his dilemmas.