Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox

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Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox

Stimson Snead had the courage to direct such an outlandish project titled Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox. In this crazy mix of science fiction and comedy, there are a few bold attempts at applying original thinking. Sadly, the humour seldom works and that turns a 110-minute long film into a pretty boring experience.

Samuel Dunning plays Tim Travers, a scientist, who has invented a one-minute time machine, that allows him to go back in time but only by one minute. Naturally, when he steps out of a time capsule, he meets himself. So, when the time machine is up and running, he takes it and expects that something will happen only to be shot by himself, a Tim who gets to travel in the past. Did that happen? Well, no. So Tim keeps on time travel and time shoots himself.

However since Tim knows he is currently the smartest person in the world, he decides to change tactics and save multiple Tims such that Tim-17 and Tim-26 were named after Greek alphabets. Hence you have Alpha Tim, which indicates the first of its kind, to Tim who also happens to be Beta Tim, Delta Tim, and so on. The first thing I should note is that the movie gets very technical rather soon; as someone who has always been poor in science, all I could do is try to act as if I got some of those terms and move along.

What leads Tim to do that is still a mystery, but he goes on a right-wing talk show hosted by the obnoxious James Bunratty played by Joel McHale.

Tim ridicules both James and his fans, which earns him the pleasure of producer Delilah, to the extent that she consents to a date with him. There is a build-up of tension which is provided by Tim alternating between messing the date and being charming. This is the point where Tim and Delilah get to his deserted factory laboratory and Doe sees him as more than just a wacko-styled rightwing talk show guest, but as a truly frightening person.

From there we get plenty of scenes of the Tims trying to problem solve but also getting distracted as they are us knowing the nature of the room full of themselves. It is incredible how all the effects of having several Tims, most of the time noticeably more than one Tim in a single frame, work out. The effects get a bit dodgy later in the film when Michal “the agent” appears and starts making opening zany effects that involve exploding people and other insane effects.

There seem to be plenty of technical terms in the film, yet conversations between different characters at times feel quite poorly improvised. It is debatable whether or not well-timed swearing is effective in comedy however the movie anyways seems to have this belief that constant swearing will equal laughs. And for what feels like a total of two times, when swearing characters actually try to get angry or at the very least upset, we get numerous F-bombs that never really land.

Much like the very concept of the film is interesting in the sense that this would have been an entirely student film by Abed Nadir from Community with Samuel Dunning pretty much acting like Jeff Winger when he was at his most insane and megalomaniac. A concept not lost, cause Joel McHale played Jeff on Community and Keith David who just appeared in the last season of Community as Elroy who appeared already in Tim Travers as a character named The Simulator.

There exists an enjoyable plot arc, where Gamma Tim and Omicron Tim fall in love which is preceded by a Tim orgy that is so terrible that it is amusing, at least that is what the animated dew has to offer for the characters and story. Unfortunately, those are perhaps the two best parts of the movie. The hot and cold Delilah behaves so erratically, that she is not all that engaging as far as the choices she makes in character goes.

Similarly, director Stimson Snead also appeared in the film as a hitman called Helter, who appears in the film several times, only to forget to pass on a line to Tim from his superior before killing him. What does make sense is that Helter also shows a disconnect altogether of interest even in figuring out why which man he has killed previously, he does not understand aims to do so again. The movie runs out of whatever steam it has preserved in the beginning every time we remove our focus from the Tim group to the incompetent hitman plot.

The film has some pretty decent concepts looking to address the science in unbelievable science fiction, which quite frankly is either brushed under the carpet or improperly delved into. Unfortunately, the film has a lot of cheap laughs which were poorly conceived and executed, making it ideal for a truly agonizing experience.

A softer and more intriguing time travel experience would present itself in Japan’s Junta Yamaguchi, who made the wonderful Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River, which draws on similar science.

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