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Think of this one as a headier version of Hot Tub Time Machine, where the participants actually understand more about things like quantum mechanics and paradoxes.
Maybe it's because they're British?
The story involves hapless underachiever Ray (Chris O'Dowd, best known as Roy from The IT Crowd) and his mates Toby (Marc Wooton) and Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) who share in his situation. Bemoaning their lives out at a pub Roy bumps into Cassie (Anna Faris) who claims to be a “time adjuster.†Roy figures the lads have hired her to be into time travel and science fiction to cheer him up and laughs it off. Meanwhile, Pete heads to the gents only to happen upon the pub in the future, seeing everyone in it - including a bearded version of himself - murdered there.
Pete freaks out, drags Ray and Toby with him, and they soon realize that each time they enter/leave the restroom they travel through time. Mostly going forward at random intervals they discover that, somehow, they happen upon something great that casts them as future heroes, living lives of luxury. But they just can't figure out what it is before they're chased down by Millie (Meredith Macneill), a timecop of sorts that seeks to execute great people in time just after their moment of greatness, preserving their lives as testaments to that singular event.
Cassie pops in from time to time and she and Roy form the love interest in the film. It doesn't really go anywhere but what do you expect in a 79 min. movie? Much of the time travel effects occur off-screen but are well-handled to represent the dangers and comedy of paradoxes and the like. Once they realize that they have to stick together, that they're mates to the end, then they're able to defeat Millie and be a cause for good in that whole space-time continuum thingy.
Brief but entertaining, slightly geeky it's a decent enough watch.
Rating: B-
