Let's be realistic.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Good concept, poorly executed.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

(Flash Review) This is an amusing time travel movie with a plot that is intriguing, has a message, keeps changing and getting more creative as the story goes. The movie starts in the 1800's and goes all the way to something like 200,000 AD!!! As the time traveling inventor makes stops throughout time he sees how mankind changes. When he stops at year 200,000 AD, he notices humans have stopped caring about learning and advancing the species. He finds this troubling and later learns that another type of foreign being has had a profound influence over mankind. What is happening? Will he or should he alter the future and will he be able or want to make it back to his original time? This is an entertaining 60's Sci-Fi movie with amusing sets and effects. It also has subtext around society and the dangers of future technology and not learning from past as well as failing to advance mankind.

I man travels through time.Since my 1970s childhood, science fiction has always been one of my very top interests and movies like this (and Irwin Allen TV) turned me into a sci-fi nut. In those days there was less sci-fi around so re-runs of movies like The Time Machine were big events.However, over the last 50 years or so just about everything in this film has been re-used or copied and put somewhere else. So part of the flick's impact has now been lost.I am also a very big fan of the 30 episode TV series, The Time Tunnel (1966), and I would advise all followers of this movie to see The Time Tunnel (it even has Time Machine star Whit Bissell in every episode).

H. G. Wells's classic novel popularized the concept of time travel. I've never read the novel, but George Pal's 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine" is a really cool movie. There were a few things that I interpreted from it.The time-traveling scientist (Rod Taylor, RIP) goes to multiple points in the future and finds repeated wars. I suspect that the screenwriter added these to the plot for historical accuracy. The time traveler notes that in his own time he sees governments creating more and more ways to kill each other. No doubt Wells's socialist views led him to grow disgusted with this. Indeed, the Eloi and Morlocks are supposed to be the descendants of the rich and poor, respectively.The depiction of a future in which all the world knowledge has died out reminds me of Mike Judge's "Idiocracy", in which a man gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up 500 years later, finding the world populated entirely by stupid people (to the degree that there's a TV show about a man suffering repeated crotch injuries, and a movie that's a two-hour shot of someone's butt).As for the rest of the cast. Alan Young (Filby) is best known as Wilbur on "Mister Ed"* and Scrooge on "DuckTales". Yvette Mimieux (Weena) later starred as the Princess in a segment of Pal's "Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm". Paul Frees (the talking rings) provided the voice of Boris on "Rocky and Bullwinkle" and also the Ghost Host in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.Basically, it's one of the neatest movies that you'll ever see. Ditto Pal's movies "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" and "The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao". There was a 2002 adaptation of the book, but I think that I'll skip that movie.*I only watched that show to see Wilbur's wife Carol. You don't know what a hottie is until you've seen her.

"H. George Wells" is an inventor living in London during the turn of the 20th Century who has invited four good friends over for dinner because he has some exciting news to tell them. When they finally get there he appears in a disheveled condition and relates to them that he has invented a time machine and has gone into the future and just now returned. After a quick glass of wine to help him recover his senses he then goes on to tell them several amazing stories of future events. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this film produced in 1960 and based on a novel written by H.G. Wells in 1895. As a result some of the stories are obviously quite dated and the special effects aren't nearly as good as anything produced today. Even so this was definitely a good science-fiction movie for its time and still manages to be quite entertaining. Along with that, it features the lovely Yvette Mimieux (as "Weena") who certainly adds to the scenery. Above average.