Remake is too kind a description for this rip-off of The Time Travelers (1964). This rehash steals not only the concept of TT, but even uses the same graphic of the future spaceship-in-the-crater. The budget is much cheaper and the effects inferior, so instead of walking through the time portal they have to exit the time pod through a door. They then use the cheap ploy of traveling to the distant past, the standard indoor jungle set, to save money. The makers rip off the frozen time idea, but without the cool foreshadowing used in the original, as well as the repeated scenes at the end but without the acceleration and at a ploddingly slow pace. Standard time wasting montages are used to increase running time gratuitously, but not bad enough to be funny (like They Saved Hitler's Brain). I strongly suggest that if you like campy old sci-fi you watch The Time Travelers instead. Same story, better effects, better use of the concept, and has humor and light sexual innuendo that makes it campy fun. If you are like me and can enjoy a bad movie for just the appreciation of its intrinsic badness, all the tricks bad movie makers use to get their cheap movie made, you might want to see this once. Otherwise go with the original.
Review of Journey to the Center of Time
