This movie nails both the comedy and the sci-fi halves of its script, and provides a shining beacon in the silly time travel sub-genre, as well as the pub crawl sub-genre. It’s a self-contained knock-out that neither overstays its welcome nor overplays its hand. This film is a solidly good time, no two ways around it.
Closest comparison: It’s like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure by way of The World’s End.
Setting: Adventure
Plot: Time Travel
Tone: Comedy
This movie makes the most of the starting premise, and though it often reverts to silliness it continually interposes actually funny jokes and meaningful moments. Instead of building up the whole movie to finally delivering on the title, instead they end the first act with the titular food-from-clouds motif and take the rest of the movie looking at the socioeconomic impact it would have on the locale. There’s a much smarter undercurrent then the facade would suggest, though that superficial layer is distractingly silly at times.
Closest comparison: It’s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller getting their feet under them before heading off to make The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Setting: Sci-fi
Plot: Action Thriller
Tone: Screwball Comedy
