Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Purely Joyful Movie!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This little 8-minute special, which exists chronologically right between the third and the fourth seasons of "Doctor Who", is quite possibly the best thing that the new series has offered us so far. I laughed out loud, I cried (I've never even watched a single episode of the old series - and yet David Tennant's "All my love to long ago" at the end had more emotional power than, say, the Doctor-Rose farewell scenes at the end of "Doomsday"), I had my mind boggled in a way only "Blink" (also written by Steven Moffat) had managed to do before, and I admired the subtle way Tennant breaks out of character at the end to express his own personal feelings. This special celebrates not only a part of "Doctor Who" history, but also the past in general, the things that shape and define us. The ONLY reason I'm deducting half a star is because of the reference to L.I.N.D.A: first of all, how could the Fifth Doctor know about them, and second of all, who wants to be reminded of the worst episode of the entire series ("Love And Monsters") while they are watching the best (this one)? ***1/2 out of 4.

When a young David Tennant watched Dr Who his favourite take on the hero was that of Peter Davison. As the then-current star, Tennant got the chance to work with him for this short and what does his character say to the man who would later be his father-in-law? You were my doctor. Inside references are the best aren't they?So, what's this about? The Tenth and Fifth Doctors meet each other, that's what! If two of the finest actors ever to grace our screens coming together as the same character isn't enough to grab at you then I don't know what is."Two minutes to Belgium!" As in, an explosion the size of. The TARDIS can't cope with being in the same place as its past self and it's up to the two incarnations to stop that from happening. Doing so will separate the two again and Ten has some important parting words to Five first. It's great to see the classic doctors getting the respect they deserve. This probably led some young fans to investigate the older Dr Who serials for the first time and that's only ever a good thing.Moffat delivers the goods again. Shame we couldn't see them team up for a whole episode.

Doctor Who: Time Crash is a short (under 10 minutes) little piece made specifically for the 2007 BBC Children in Need night of fund raising.There's no real story other than the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) ends up meeting the tenth Doctor (David Tennant) in the TARDIS just after he leaves Martha (Freema Agyemen) on Earth at the end of season 3 of the new series.I actually thought it was a nice little fun self referential piece where doctor number ten pokes a bit of fun at one of his previous incarnations while Doctor number five at first thinks he's a loony fan & criticises the new interior of the TARDIS likening the change to that of a Windows desktop! There are some amusing references to various enemy's, Doctor fives traits & some of his companions. I actually smiled on a few occasions & Time Crash has enough continuity with he series as a whole to become an accepted part of it in it's own right. It's certainly far more serious & sensible in tone than the silly Dimensions in Time (1993).Hell, I liked it, I like both David Tennant & Peter Davison although he has noticeably aged which is explained by the time difference or something technobable like that & it also features Freema Agyeman at the start (in footage taken from the end of Last of the Time Lords(2007)) & I admit I have the hots for her & really like her in general so that also helps. At the end Doctor number ten says Doctor number five was his Doctor & in fact in reality Peter Davison would have been David Tennant's first Doctor as he grew up which I thought was a nice little touch.It never leaves the confines of the new style TARDIS & actually leaves you wanting something a bit more substantial, a complete proper story to feature both Tennant & Davison (I wouldn't have said no to Freema Agyeman appearing as well) would have been nice if this little taster was anything to go by. I thought it was a fun little piece & a nice accompaniment to both the new & old series that works well within the context of both. But then again what do I know? The end features a gratuitous plug for the upcoming Christmas special Voyage of the Damned (2007) & also features more footage from the end of Last of the Time Lords.

"Doctor Who" was back for all of eight minutes, as part of "Children in Need" night, in a mini-episode, written by Steven Moffat and directed by Graeme Harper, entitled "Time Crash". I've already seen it described, subsequently, as "Time Crap" but I thought it was good fun with a rather poignant final minute. My favourite line was actually one given to tenth Doctor David Tennant, and thus the obvious choice for the title of this post, but, overall, I thought fifth Doctor Peter Davison out-acted his successor. He was "let's be honest, pretty sort-of-marvellous"! Readers may think I'm prejudiced in his favour because I prefer the classic series to Russell T. Davies' reinvention but that isn't the reason. Peter wasn't "My Doctor", just the better actor on this occasion. They really only got it spot on, during his era, in his final story so it was intriguing to see the actor reunited with the director of that story, "The Caves of Androzani", for this little, well-balanced, excursion.While David may have had the best line, the one tinged with A. E. Housman-style regret of a past long since lost, the fifth Doctor had the leading question, and the one I've been asking myself for the last two years, when he asks the tenth, "Is there something wrong with you?"! Perhaps David is "the decorative vegetable" rather than Peter's stick of celery!! Steven Moffat summed up the current Doctor's predilection for "ranting in my face about every single thing that happens to be in front of him" perfectly!!! My only regret about "Time Crash" is that it wasn't a full-length episode. Having gone to the trouble of rehiring a popular former-leading man from the series, together with the programme's best director of that period combined (for the first time) with the writing skills of the current series' best author, it would've been nice to see the central relationship developed further… as in "The Two Doctors", one of my "Blue Remembered Hills". I echo the sentiment, "All My Love To Long Ago".