Means of Travel: A black hole propels two ships back in time But when Jack the Ripper uses the machine to escape to the future - 1979 San Francisco - Wells (Malcolm McDowell) follows to track down the killer. Wells' 'The Time Machine,' the Nicholas Meyer-directed 'Time After Time' cleverly uses Wells himself as the protagonist and imagines that the author was able to build a working time machine. An Oscar-winner for its visual effects, 'The Time Machine' traces the journey of a man from Victorian England as he visits three world wars (including a nuclear war in the late 1960s) before reaching the very distant future.ДЄlso inspired by H.G. Wells' classic novel was this 1960 release from the UK, directed by George Pal. The funniest of all the Trek films, 'Voyage Home' provided the one-time Enterprise crew with an unassailable reason to travel back in time to 20th century Earth: to save the whales. Remember, the even numbered 'Star Trek' movies are the good ones (well, with one major exception), and this fourth installment was the second-best of the bunch. Means of Travel: A Klingon Bird-of-Prey that slingshots around the Sun Future governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg assassin transported backward in time from a post-apocalyptic future to prevent the birth of a future rebel leader. James Cameron's low-budget classic introduced one of the big screen's most iconic sci-fi characters. Means of Travel: Time Displacement Sphere A perfect blend of humor and an interesting, self-contained story (naturally, there were two sequels), 'Back to the Future' was 1985's highest-grossing film. Means of Travel: A flux capacitor-equipped DeLoreanДЄrguably the best time travel movie of them all is Robert Zemeckis' 1985 comedy about an eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd) who accidentally sends his young friend (Michael J. We are also forbidden from going back in time and murdering our own parents.

If an older movie is not in Metacritic's database (and thus does not have a Metascore), we have slotted it where we feel it belongs. The rules are simple: Where movies have Metascores, they must be listed in order from highest to lowest. Below, we look at the best and worst movies featuring time travel, starting with the good. Of course, such films are not always successful. (We're still not sure how the physics work, exactly.) Here, the time travel is played for laughs, but in other time travel movies - typically, science-fiction films - the aim might be to scare, thrill, or provoke deep thought. The new film depicts a group of friends who are transported back to 1986 from the present day, thanks to their special hot tub. It's not just the best thing to happen to movie titles since Snakes on a Plane the new comedy Hot Tub Time Machine (opening Friday, March 26) is also the latest in a long line of time travel movies, stretching back from at least the 1940s into (we presume) the distant future.

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