18/04/12 The Time Machine (2002)

Curious Polish film about the 1948 northern Poland crop failure and the subsequent corn famine which resulted in the 'Gustave Malnsk Revolution', which, as I'm sure anyone with a primary school level education of history will know, led on to the 'Five Hour War of Teblinsk' and the death of twenty-two thousand people.

Nah, I made all that up. It's actually the one where the fella from Neighbours builds a time machine out of cogs and pipes then bimbles around in the past, then decides to settle in the future where people live in baskets on the side of a cliff.

I remember when this came out, it got some pretty negative reviews. I don't know why as it's a decent family film that is fun, well acted and moves at a good pace.

This was made five years, and for much less money than the fuckin' terrible I Am Legend, so how come the CGI monsters in this look 84 times better than the later ones?

Based on the H.G. Wells story, and directed by his great grandson. I can't decide if that's kinda cool or indulgent wank. Still, he was an established director before it was made, so 'meh'.

7.5/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/

Perkin.