Oddly enough, I remember seeing this movie back when it first came out. Maybe the fact I was young in age made it more memorable for me *shrug*. I liked it...to this day I find myself humming "get your ticket, get your ticket, ya gotta have your ticket for the train ride". Perhaps it's also in part that I grew up listening to the Sinceres aka Bloodstone on the Radio and Records at home. Granted it isn't on par with any Cinematic greats...but for a cheesy 70s film it isn't that bad..especially for a vehicle for a 70s Band. This movie is a tad better than Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (imho). If you want a thinking movie, yeah get something else..but for a fun look at a "classic" 70s cheesy movie there is far worse. Heck, I have to admit I've seen worse movies in the 2000s that were MEANT to be "serious"...at least this one was meant to be "fun".

We saw this movie when it was released in 1978. It was one of the silliest movies that I had ever seen, but I go to the movies to escape from real life, to be entertained. This movie had great musical numbers (I've had the soundtrack for 15 years) and quite a few entertaining moments. If you're a 30s or 40s movie buff and a fan of the old Fred Astaire musicals, you'll like the dance numbers alone. If you can sit back and see the humor in life, just let yourself go, then you'll enjoy "TRAINRIDE TO HOLLYWOOD".

This really is pathetic. Nothing to recommend it other than 2 good oldies. Bad acting, bad direction, bad script, bad music. How did this movie ever get made...and released by a major studio! You can buy the movie Letter-boxed, but why anyone would want to is beyond me (unless of course they're in it, but I'd be too embarrassed to admit to that).

Members of the 70's pop/soul group Bloodstone ("Natural High") enter a dream sequence in which they disguise themselves as porters to get to Hollywood for an audition. Also on the train are cheap impersonators of Bogie, W.C. Fields, Rhett and Scarlet, Jeanette and Nelson, Bela Lugosi, plus a sheik and his harem. Some fine musical numbers liven up a rather hackneyed self-referential movie. Still an interesting trip for cinema fans, and more economical than the later star-laden failure "Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood."