Time Travel Is Dangerous

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Time Travel Is Dangerous

2025

1h 39m

Comedy

Sci-Fi

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Real-life best friends Ruth Syratt and Megan Stevenson run a vintage bric-a-brac shop in Muswell Hill, London. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their emporium with quirky artefacts with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe. After one excursion too many, an interdimensional fissure appears and Ruth must free Megan from The Unreason, a monstrous netherworld where a convoluted game is played for all eternity.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

04/15/2025

4/5

If the resulting low-budget assemblage still bears these nametags and has the odd stray thread showing, it also has a persistent charm of its own.

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

10/28/2024

The Eighties aesthetic runs throughout, and spiritually, Time Travel Is Dangerous! is something of an 8-bit charmer, full of practical effects and the anything-goes wackiness that engined action-comedies of the era.

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Tim Brennan

About Boulder

Dec 8

Presumably, Reading had a microscopic budget, yet his film never feels cheap. It’s got a charming handmade quality, as if everyone pitched in to create ingenious practical solutions instead of throwing money at problems.

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Evan Landon

Film Threat

Dec 1

8/10

Time Travel Is Dangerous is an eccentric take on comedy, with a touch of the fantastical.

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

Nov 21

Time Travel Is Dangerous is a low-fi, sci-fi romp that feels specially and expertly made for the lovers of smart, dry humor.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Nov 21

Despite a cool premise and a cheeky throwback vibe, this lo-fi British science-fiction comedy struggles to translate its abundant quirks into consistent laughs.

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Tanaputz J

@Tanaputz Jul 19

I pity those who think this movie is hilarious. They're the same ones who are laughing at the bubbles in a pot of boiling water. (sigh)

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Russell O

@RussOwen Dec 9

Genuinely funny, original and with an outstanding cast who are all clearly having a great time.

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Alixzandra R

@RT70778550 Dec 1

Hilarious must see British comedy. If you like films with humor and unique sci-fi imagination you’ll love this. If you liked hitchhikers guide to galaxy and spinal tap and movies like that you’ll like this. Incredibly inventive and funny premise. Actors were fabulous, director was amazing. Set design and props are extremely well done especially for an indie. A good time for all to see.

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Richard Y

@ry5144 Nov 25

An very silly and cheap Brit attempt to produce a Monty Pythonesque film but far from it.

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Russell A

@Rallen117 Nov 23

I’m guessing no GED required to write the summary for these movies RT? Artefacts lmao

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Nov 21

The worldwide gross is $44,898.00.

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Synopsis

Real-life best friends Ruth Syratt and Megan Stevenson run a vintage bric-a-brac shop in Muswell Hill, London. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their emporium with quirky artefacts with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe. After one excursion too many, an interdimensional fissure appears and Ruth must free Megan from The Unreason, a monstrous netherworld where a convoluted game is played for all eternity.

Director: Chris Reading
Producer: Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Hillary Shakespeare
Screenwriter: Chris Reading, Chris Reading, Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Hillary Shakespeare
Distributor: Level 33 Entertainment
Production Co: Shakespeare Sisters
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 21, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 39m