Tim Hammell wrote:
The humor in Time Travelers, the only one I want, makes me cringe but I always liked the concept, story and the very neat way they handled the ending but think I'll pass on these sets. $13 in Canada, gaak. Even at $5 from the states plus shipping might be too much.
there's actually very little "bad" humor in the movie - I assume you mean the flirtation scene, where Danny says to the camera, "I thought I was giving her the eye," amplified by the cartoonish music. The disembodied android hand pinching his butt. And the bad pun and unconvincing delivery by Forrest Ackerman "Getting things squared away, keeping you space people happy."Eyes

There's another layer of humor that might go unnoticed - while seemingly just comic relief, Danny is also the Everyman caught in the middle, and the conversation he has in lab at the start is Seinfeldian - exasperated "yeahhhh, but" dilemma about having to cut the power, talking extra loud about getting caught giving extra material to the scientists, then laughing the whole thing off and giving them his permission to continue the experiement, while actually being ignored the entire time by the scientists. Then he gets ignored trying to demonstrate the time window is a portal, and disbelieved (sort of) when he gets an electric shock from a force field in a cave: "Electricity? Are you sure?" "Doc! if there's one thing I do know it's what an electric shock feels like." Danny dont get no respect.
There's the bit when he gets teleported, "Thanks for the trip, I'll recommend it to my friends." And while cliche, I still think his getting choked up trying to ask Reena for a date passes as funny.

There's one bit of editing juxtaposition that symbolically suggests a double entendre - the Lumichord scene ends with Danny and Reena necking, cutting to a blistering hot phallic welding torch.

If you take the plot seriously, there's a creepy element when you see it more than once - there's so many little accidents of circumstances and character motivation - things they did or didnt do - which could have prevented them from opening the portal...and while you think they should try to prevent it, the survival of the human race requires that they do go since the mutants inevitably destroy the ship.

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