The Low Budget Time Machine (2003) (original) (raw)
Synopsis
A conniving professor and his gorilla side-kick convince down-and-out astronauts to go on a time-journey to benefit mankind. Once transported to the future, they meet beautiful but deadly space babes, a horrible monster and an army of mutants. The last doomed survivors of earth are trapped by a cosmic plague unleashed in an apocalyptic future!
Cast
Popular reviews
dont have time for this kinda campy fan nonsense anymore but if youll watch a movie just for daniel roebuck as "mook" this polyester atom age kitsch stumbles accidentally on a few stimulating textures and tones here & there, even if cult movie tv* heads'll recognize the shows cheery, loungey theme ruining any scenes that threaten to break free of mst3k host-segmentcore. ive watched enough lazy surfer bowling shirts & fishbowl'd gorilla suits shot on vhs to last a lifetime or at least a while* even if i feel a pang of my own nostalgia at the same ol gen x tikihead monsterkids circling the pre-obama cultural drain before succumbing to facebook & the mandalorian
*https://www.osi74.com/index.php/aiovg\_videos/cult-movies-tv-s1e07-john-la-zar/
*https://letterboxd.com/pd187/list/backyard-shot-on-video-no-budget-sci-fi-i/
This was a throwback to the 1950s sci-fi movies where aliens come to earth wearing sexier versions of 1960s Star uniforms. Silliness ensues, not all of it is great but it kept chugging along. However, there is a performance of a song about and sung by an alien named Gary.
I honestly don't know where to even begin, I'm kind of speechless with this one
Genuinely cannot tell if I liked it or was just awestruck by its absurdity
Giving it one star, putting a pin it to revisit
I was looking for something in the Psychotronic room at my video store the other day and my wife was with me and randomly picked up this movie when she spotted it on the shelf, which is how I came across this silly little movie. Idk where letterboxd got a 99 minute runtime for this, because it's only 48 minutes.
The first bit of the film drags a little because they explain things too much. Sure, there are some humorous moments within all of this, but some of it kind of lands while a lot of falls flat. Luckily, with it being a short movie, it doesn't take long to move the "plot" along.
I actually got pretty invested in…