The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The Day Time Ended is a late 70's sci-fi b-movie that tells the story of a family who find themselves dealing withseveral close encounters and who are (Complete with their house) ripped through space and time repeatedly.Consisting of the usual quality cgi and some stop motion creatures the idea behind the movie is sound but the execution is pretty disastrous.The plot is a mess and is more than slightly difficult to follow, for this reason caring about characters felt like a chore and the whole movie missed its mark badly.I see what they were going for I truly do, but somewhere along the way somebody suffered with writers block and out popped this half baked effort.The Good:A couple of interesting ideasThe Bad:Plot makes very little senseNothing flowsThings I Learnt From This Movie:Aliens can vaporize metal in a second but take several minutes to get through a wooden door

After watching The Day Time Ended I'm left scratching my head wondering just what did I see? A whole lot of dazzling pyrotechnics that I can see at any light show, some ugly looking monsters and a little girl who is just taking it all in while the grownups are frightened out of their wits.Three generations of a family grandparents Jim Davis and Dorothy Malone, children Marcy Lafferty and Scott Kolden, Marcy's husband Chris Mitchum and their child Natasha Ryan check into a solar powered house on the desert which is to be a family vacation. Then everything starts going haywire including all their appliances even the car starting by itself, dazzling lights, and some ugly looking creatures. All adding up to what I don't know.The explanation is that not one, not two, but three stars went nova at the same time two hundred light years away and it's only reaching the earth now. The ending is a combination from Cocoon and Close Encounters done on the very cheap. I'll bet the actors weren't sure what was going on either.I've seen worse science fiction, but I've seen a whole lot better. No point to this one at all.

I'm giving this one a "3" mainly for its curiosity value. Have you ever treated yourself to a really bad movie? A movie that has no plot, for instance? Well, this one goes a bit further than that. It introduces and then ditches so many plots that I stopped counting after seven. Part of the problem undoubtedly is that the producer obviously ran out of money. He did spend up big on special effects and that presumably wiped out the budget. No money for a script-writer, so he was forced to improvise. He doubtless hoped that patrons would go so ga-ga over his library of special effects that no-one would notice that the plot he and/or some lackey made up on the spot, made no sense. Maybe he took suggestions from the players? Maybe he wrote up some scenes with his kids at home? Maybe he asked the watchman at the studio gates? Or more likely, the special effects people? The movie is crowded with special effects, that's for sure. Most of them - indeed probably all of them - make no sense, of course, but who's going to notice? The audience? What audience? The title is all wrong for a starter. What day? What time? What end? It should have been titled: "The Day They Tried To Make a Classy "A" Movie On a "B" budget".

I did not think this was that bad a movie. Yeah it was kind of hokie but at least it was entertaining. A family moves to a new house in the desert. An eerie green pyramid shows up, I guess caused by the light from three simultaneous novas from a couple hundred years ago. Aliens start showing up, including an obvious one that is claymation, but it seems friendly enough. Strange things happen as the aliens keep appearing in their space crafts. One thing that is really nice to see is the adults treat the oldest boy like a grown up, having him help out instead of telling him to stay inside or stay away. The girl appears to be the key to everything as she has a now miniaturized pyramid in her possession and it seems to respond to her wishes, stopping the car, chilling the burning door, etc. Jim Davis and Dorothy Malone play the grandparents and do a good job. I have liked them both for many years and thought they never really got the credit they deserved. Then the monsters start showing up and they are claymation also. Now in 1979 it would seem they could have done a lot better with the special effects. It is interesting that the power for the property seems to come and go. It works some times but not others. One funny scene is when one of the monsters actually knocks on the front door of the house!!!! Towards the end of the film the house is transported to a locale that seems very Bermuda Trianglish, old derelict planes, wrecked vehicles from who knows where, etc. The green pyramid shows up again and stops whatever is going on but the mother and the little girl disappear into a vortex. Are they gone for ever??? Well the mom shows up and tries to explain things, then the girl shows up. This is a very uneven and poorly plotted movie but I still found it interesting.