Showing posts with label Billy Connolly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billy Connolly. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 July 2020

Timeline (2003)



A group of archaeologists become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve a friend. The group must survive in fourteenth century France before they can escape back to the twenty-first century.

Quite mindless entertainment, not tethered by any plot coherence let alone the paradoxes of time travel; lots of talent wasted for the fun.

Halliwell (no star): "Risible adventure, so daft to be almost, but not quite, endearing; the performances are beyond redemption."

Maltin**: "Lively, noisy, convoluted story becomes so confusing it's difficult to know who's who, let alone what's what."

Sunday, 4 March 2018

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)



A couple takes their kids on a family vacation, and, surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents.

More bickering among adults than humor this comedy is only fairly entertaining, but does offer an uplifting ending.