The Trip 8

The dog was the sane one. The actor almost drowned.

Colombia's Christmas comedy factory shipped an eighth movie into theaters on December 25, 2025. The plot is a honeymoon that curdles. latestnetflix.com's take is that the better copy is what the cast did to get the footage.,

Constanza Hernandez told El Tiempo they lived "a trip behind the trip." The Colombian and Mexican actors had not met, so they forced extra hangouts so the in-law scenes would land. They shot in Santa Marta and slept in Buritica, a small town she described as full of bugs. A truckers' strike blocked the road between the hotels and the set. "We came by car to a point, got out, walked, got into another car, and then we kept going," she said. Makeup melted at nearly 35 degrees. Mexican actor Fernando Memije, playing Pancho, kept fainting in the heat. He joked that he lives in Mexico at "minus 11, minus 10 with air conditioning." The worst beat was underwater. Variel Sanchez was the only one with diving experience, and he was the one who nearly drowned. Hernandez said she almost died crying. "Fortunately, in the end everything resolved well."

A jalapeno from Paris, a dog with a voice.

El Pais still calls El Paseo the most loved and highest-grossing saga in Colombian cinema, even while admitting critics rarely smile. The cycle is a national holiday ritual. Family trip with the stew pot. Family trip to the sea. Graduation trip. First trip abroad. This one is the wedding trip. Rosa, played by Victoria Ortiz, meets Pierre in Paris and brings him home. Pierre is billed as French. Erick Canete, who plays him, is Mexican, and El Tiempo wrote that he arrives "more Mexican than a jalapeno." Maya Zapata and Fernando Memije complete the Mexican side. Dago Garcia wrote and produced. He hired Felipe Martinez, a director who had already worked in Chile, Peru, and Mexico, because he wanted the franchise to travel. Christian Tappan voices Choco, the family dog who narrates and, the press keeps saying, is the only sane one on the outing. Hernandez told the paper this Paseo leans closer to a Hollywood rom-com than the usual slapstick extremes, and that the parents' marriage, Silvio and Soledad, gets as much care as the newlyweds. ,

Box Office Mojo put the Christmas opening at $368,835 from 184 theaters, third place in Colombia that weekend. The Colombia total settled at $953,446. El Tiempo, writing on January 2 while the film was still in multiplexes, said attendance was already approaching 45,000. That is a smaller Christmas than the saga's legend, which is why the Mexican casting and the later Netflix hop matter as strategy, not as trivia. ,

Netflix lists the movie in English as The Trip 8, original title El paseo 8, TV-MA, 91 minutes. C5N in Argentina wrote in early March 2026 that it had landed on the service in late February and was already among the most watched titles, even claiming a Top 10 run. Treat the ranking as the outlet's claim. What is solid is the listing, the Christmas date, and the decision to sell a very local joke to a platform that retitles it for people who have never heard of a paseo. ,