Sobriety and time travel aspect threaten JTRO (director, writer and star Jason Trost) and the FP in the third installment of The FP. What can twenty grand and some green screen get you? A movie with a vision.

L Dubba E (Lee Valmassy) has returned, thanks to the aforementioned chronal messing about, as well as JTRO’s daughter with Chai-T, Chai-TRO (Lib Campbell). Where the first two movies are filled with tons of action — and this has some — this builds the universe and makes it dense, kind of like how by the late 90s you needed several guides and needed to know someone to be able to understand a single issue of X-Men. The mythology has gotten so rich that you need to wade into it slowly.

When I got the opportunity to interview Jason Trost, he said that “I feel like with each movie, well, they’re all parodies, so to speak. They’re all satirical, parodying new genres and new movies every single time. So the joke just continues to evolve. At this point, the same characters are almost in completely different worlds every time.”

Are the movies still exciting for him? It sure seems that way, as he added “…every time there’s no rules. I can really just kind of do what I want with it. The only rule per se of this franchise is that each one has to be more ridiculous and the stakes have to be higher every time. If I can do that I can pretty much do whatever I want. I think that’s kind of what I’ve built and set up with this franchise. If you’re still here at this point, you kind of know that’s the deal. Every time it gets to be fresh because they get to go on an entirely new adventure.”

You can watch this on Tubi.