This film hooked me early on with it's colorful special effects and eerie just around the corner hint of suspense, but even while watching it, I realized that it came two years after "Star Wars", at which point it's low budget origins started to make sense. The appearance of the stop motion monsters then took the film in a different direction, and I was almost sure Hercules or Odysseus might be coming around the corner to save the day.
The biggest problem I have with the film is the Williams family non existent reaction to mind numbing events. When a little green alien appears on your bed, I think that merits some kind of response; instead wife Ana (Dorothy Malone) doesn't even mention it to her husband Grant (Jim Davis). Watching your house disappear in a swirling light storm would also elicit a bit more of a reaction than the "Oh, well" casualness displayed by both Grant and son in law Richard (Christopher Mitchum).
That's why young Jenny's (Natasha Ryan) performance is all the more refreshing in the movie, at least she had a real world credibility and natural curiosity about her. Her "thank you, water" and "thank you, light" reaction to forces she didn't understand revealed a child's way of dealing with the unknown the only way she knew how. The movie could have used more of Jenny.
I'm not quite sure how the film's title fits in with events of the story, other than the opening voice over narration describing a scientific theory that all of time exists right now. Overall, the movie has a made for TV feel that falls just short of delivering the goods. It's like watching a film in a time space warp.
The biggest problem I have with the film is the Williams family non existent reaction to mind numbing events. When a little green alien appears on your bed, I think that merits some kind of response; instead wife Ana (Dorothy Malone) doesn't even mention it to her husband Grant (Jim Davis). Watching your house disappear in a swirling light storm would also elicit a bit more of a reaction than the "Oh, well" casualness displayed by both Grant and son in law Richard (Christopher Mitchum).
That's why young Jenny's (Natasha Ryan) performance is all the more refreshing in the movie, at least she had a real world credibility and natural curiosity about her. Her "thank you, water" and "thank you, light" reaction to forces she didn't understand revealed a child's way of dealing with the unknown the only way she knew how. The movie could have used more of Jenny.
I'm not quite sure how the film's title fits in with events of the story, other than the opening voice over narration describing a scientific theory that all of time exists right now. Overall, the movie has a made for TV feel that falls just short of delivering the goods. It's like watching a film in a time space warp.