Ray (Chris O’Dowd from The IT Crowd and The Boat That Rocked), Toby (Marc Wootton from My New Best Friend) and Pete (Dean Kennox Kelly from Shameless) spend a lot of time in the pub discussing their ideas for movies and life and quite often the subject is time travel. Ray and Toby like to consider themselves imagineers, but Pete just calls them nerds. Imagineering takes a diversion in to reality when chrononaut (that’s what informed nerds call a time traveler) Cassie (Anna Faris from Scary Movie and The House Bunny) appears and sets off a chain of events that leads to the three friends traveling forward and backward in time from the hotel bathroom, and experiencing thrills and chills and death and destruction along the way. Most of the trouble encountered stems from an editor (a time traveler that wants to change history) trying to kill the threesome.
FAQATT covers familiar time travel ground as scenes are played from different perspectives as the travelers try not to encounter themselves as they jump through time. It is a smartly crafted movie that is also awkward as it shifts between being clever, being a comedy, and being quite grim. The melding of these styles makes for unevenness as the film struggles to find a rhythm. Watchable, but not an equal to Red Dwarf’s science fiction comic coherency.
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