Time Travel Is Dangerous

They've collected a lot of 'names' here to entice people to watch this, but its really quite undeserving of anyone's attention.

It's bereft of any humour, not particularly clever, and just not entertaining in any manner IMHO.

The television production standards don't really help its cause. No it's not 'charming' it's just rubbish.

My guess is that this is a kind of cheap, British pastiche of Spinal Tap with its looseness and rambling dialogue etc. But it really misses the mark by an astonishing margin, with a muddled plot and general lack of ideas, 'writing' and direction.

As someone who even thought 'Sex Lives of the Potato Men' was tolerable, I really have nothing positive to say about 'Time Travel Is Dangerous' with the exception of throwing some praise in the direction of Ruth Syratt, who for an essentially unknown actress shows potential for future, hopefully better projects.

This would make a decent program to insert into any childrens tv slot. Or for any adults who make a deliberate point of staying in touch with their inner child. I am all for those whimsically offbeat British comedies, oozing with self aware silliness and nostalgic village idiot types, as long as there is some underlaying worthwhile message put across with a few laughs . But this misses the mark in every respect. No laughs, no characters to care about, no action, no point.

To be fair, that's based on the opening 30 minutes, which is as much as I could bear. One third the running time, so one third the score, 3/10.

Not knowing what I was in for here, aside from "Time Travel is Dangerous" being a comedy, I opted to watch the movie, as I had the chance to do so here in 2025.

Writers Chris Reading, Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Hillary Shakespeare and Ruth Syratt put together a script and storyline that fell short of entertaining me. For a comedy, I have to say that "Time Travel is Dangerous" was frightfully devoid of anything funny. In fact, I found the narrative in the movie to be somewhat of a swing and a miss, as the storyline was bland and mundane.

There were two familiar performers on the cast list for me, and that was Stephen Fry and Brian Blessed. The acting performance in the movie were fair.

This is not a movie that I would recommend you to sit down and spend 99 minutes on watching. Nor is it a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.

My rating of director Chris Reading's 2024 movie "Time Travel is Dangerous" lands on a rather generous three out of ten stars.

If "Clerks" and "Dr Who" had a baby, this would be it. It centres on two women who run a vintage shop in London's Muswell Hill neighbourhood. Times are tough until they discover a time machine. Turns out that nipping back in time to steal coveted items really cuts down on the cost of inventory.

Things are great until ... ahh, no spoilers, but it's wonderfully funny throughout and the story is well structured with an uplifting ending where well meaning characters get redemption and the evil weenies get their comeuppances.

Also, for an indie film run on a tight budget, the visual effects are surprisingly good while being endearingly camp.

I think this was funny and a great time travel movie. Stupid, fun, weird and just a good fun movie.

If you do not like time travel movies on the low end then this is not for you.

I think if you like the concept and are open to a small silly indie movie then this is a fun one.

I liked the slow pace and easy flow.