FAQ About Time Travel

A very nice film about time travel. It’s not very envelope-pushing or brilliant, but it’s still worth watching. It’s like a comedy spin on Timecrimes or Triangle. The climax is a bit too over the top, but the four-start feeling held even after it was over. (10/12/2009)

The film’s firmly held together by an Oscar-parameter script, contemporary British humor, and a trio of wise-cracking geeks. It very ably pokes fun at all the clichés of "time travel" movies and parallel worlds, all the while emphasizing its own logic and a ruthless serving of dry fun. That has to come in handy for anyone who's ever encountered a broken hairdryer in a bar toilet and, after the Xth beer, started philosophizing about what it would be like to turn back time or peer into the future. 4 ½. (30/12/2009)

12 Monkeys in the pub after a few rounds. In the end much less humorous and much smarter than it seemed to be at the beginning (up until the moment with the jukebox, everything thereafter is the reason why I almost went down a star). A beer and a hoodie are as essential kit as a towel when reading “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy". (12/09/2009)

A good choice for fans of British humor. For others, perhaps incomprehensible savagery. I'm somewhere in between and can't decide if I'm excited or if this was a mediocre film. Either way, it's a bit of a different take on sci-fi with an interesting ending. Slightly above average, maybe very average... I'll judge that next time. (12/06/2011)

Well, it sure would be fun even if the dad gets hanged and the mother runs off with musicians, but with this movie you also have to be able to shoot it. Nor is it just for grins that they say comedy is one of the hardest genres. FAQATT isn't just nonsense, and I believe the people behind it are otherwise quite funny, so the simple dialogue works relatively well here. The jokes are polished, they have a concept, but as soon as they have to make any kind of sketch or move the plot along with visuals, it's fit for the pillory. And I'm not just referring to the horrifically atrocious effects, which actually kind of belong in a guileless romp like this, but if you just compare it to the nuclear explosion of Wright's camera and creative editing in The World's End, which works with a very similar setting (sci-fi problems in the world of traditional British pub culture) and you know where we are. Then again, the already tired theme of "nerd who finds happiness (with a girl)" plot is getting a bit, well, tired. (10/10/2017)