Mañana es hoy

If you are fed up of Hollywood time-travel movies then come see this old fashioned Euro-style farce. It is silly, it is crude in places, but it is always with a smile. Think Birdcage (but not as sharp).

A disfunctional 90s family are transported to the 2022s and discover some shocking facts about what happened after they left. It feels like it was made in the 90s which I think is the reason people are very down on this odd little gem.

If you are expecting Rick & Morty then avoid, but if you fancy something a Little different and don't mind that it doesn't make a great deal of sense in places then come and enjoy the ride.

I think Spain is the best place to show the magnitude of change that happened in 30 years, I saw it first hand , how Madrid changed from a village to a metropolis, this film is just on point, not to mention funny with a touch of Almodóvar in it. Be warned it is definitely not for everyone. The characters are over developed as it is commonly done in Spanish comedies, but funny and fresh and it will help a lot if you speak Spanish of course. And as all time travle movies , the disparity plays the biggest part by comparison to our selves , did we really feel this huge change in our life amd what would we do if we are thrown in the future 30 years from now?

I am a fan of "time travel movies" and I enjoy even mediocre movies if they, at least, contain references to other movies. Even parody movies with lack of imagination are appreciated. But this is something really bad. I gave a 4 (which is a lot) just because Javier Gutiérrez, a decent actor, was in.

I also want to confess I wanted to stop wasting my time after 30 minutes, but I did an effort to watch the whole thing.

Vulgar, repetitive, without chemistry... a mix of "comedy" (no a single decent joke) and no science (no even good for a mediocre parody). Acting bad, situations out of reality (nobody behaves like that, come on! Are people that empty, clumpsy, unreal?)... only thing that can be saved is a 1991 song or a cultural reference, but not even those were enough to put it in context... everything looked out of place, like in a bad decorate.

Plot... is there a plot? Characters... well, nobody cares about any character. And then the need of creating swallow characters, no a single one, no even a secondary character conveys something decent. These guys who created the product... Did they dedicate more than 30 seconds to think about it?

In summary. Idea is good, a few references to 1991 (objects from that time) and a couple of pop songs. Rest, a mix of empty, unpleasent characters nobody cares about. Vulgar jokes and non-sense sex references that are so out of place, boring dialogues, unrealistic situations and movie starts as a vulgar thing and goes (unbelivable!) down and down till make the whole thing one of the worst, if not the worst, "time travel" movie I have watched in my life.

When I saw the film was subtitles rather than dubbed I almost didn't watch but I'm glad I did.

What starts off as a rather campy romp actually turns into quite a gripping story. Time travel movies are as old as time but this one actually gives a new spin to the genre.

By the end I was really invested in the characters and really loved where the story took them in the final few scenes. Pilar and Rodrigo were my two favourite characters, especially Pilar finding herself through modern day values.

This is well worth a watch and well worth reading the subtitles. I may have to watch a second time to pick up all the bits I missed.

From Spain comes a fun time travel movie. A family vacation goes awry when most of the family is jolted 30 years into the future.

The actors are so well matched to the characters, and the characters are just great. The action is fast and funny. Very funny. And the story is touching too, as mom and dad try to solve the mystery of what happened to their daughter years ago, and endeavor to change history.

The missing daughter's brother is very funny too.

They carry a certain innocence from 1991 to a much slicker and technologically advanced 2022 . This leaves plenty of room for the comedy, which fits so smoothly into the plot.

It's touching, too, and I admit to getting a little verklempt here and there, as people do their best to make things right.

There wasn't a dull moment in this film.

(Speaking of time travel) I was reminded by the humor of Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.")

Such an enjoyable movie! A rollicking and exciting ride across the decades.