Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

A Disappointing Continuation

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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

As others have said, this is a film without a plot. It's one of those things where you put a family in a house in a remote place and start doing things to them. There are all sorts of things but nothing is ever explained. There is a big fight between two claymation monsters, but what do they have to do with the swirling lights that keep showing up, or the gunlike thing that points at people. We meet a couple of little creatures at the beginning but then we never see them again. And what does a triple-nova have to do with anything? The closing statement by grandpa is made without any knowledge of anything. And where are they going? And why them? And where is everyone else? I know it has something today with a time vortex, but the principle characters just bumble around. They don't really learn anything. Or do they? They don't bother to tell us.

Pay the director a good chunk and then write the whole thing off as a tax loss. The plot makes no sense.The acting makes no sense.The special effects look like a high school project.This movie just uses up time - it is not the day time ended but rather the day time dragged on forever.I can only think that this was a tax loss for an investment company who needed to lose money. For an explanation of how this works watch The Producers with Gene Wilder - it is possible to actually make money with a loss making project.At the end the film simply stops - no explanation, nothing - it just ends.

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.