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- 1960
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
- 1960
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
Summary A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
Directed By: George Pal
Written By: David Duncan, H.G. Wells
- 1960
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
- 1960
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
The Time Machine
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6.7
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Summary A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
Directed By: George Pal
Written By: David Duncan, H.G. Wells
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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44% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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This smashing science-fiction adaptation of H.G. Wells's famous novel has more creativity in every frame than most latter-day rip-offs have in their entirety.
The meat of Wells’ novel is sacrificed in favor of all-out spectacle, but in that respect the movie works marvelously.
Wells purists may balk, and Pal’s then state-of-the-art effects do look cheesy by today’s Industrial Light & Magic standards, but The Time Machine retains an appealing Victorian charm. Taylor, the Mel Gibson of the ’60s, is a pleasure to watch.
The social comment of the original has been historically refined to encompass such plausible eventualities as the physical manifestation of atomic war weapons. But the basic spirit of Wells' work has not been lost.
The machine itself is a beauty, with a red velvet seat and gadgets made of ivory and rock crystal, and the time-travel effects help to make this film one of the best of its kind. However, it deteriorates into comic-strip grotesqueries when the fat ogreish future race of Morlocks torments the effete, platinum-blond, vacant-eyed race of Eloi.
The drama, for all its invention, is creaky and a bit passé. (Apparently there has still been no contact with other planets in 800,000 A. D.) And the mood, while delicately wistful, is not so flippant or droll as it might be in a fiction as fanciful and flighty as this one naturally is.
Parts of it are colorful and imaginative, but the film flattens out toward the end.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
6.7
72% Positive
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22% Mixed
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hugo Awards
• 1 Nomination
