YES this movie was SUCH AN EXPERIENCE and I'm so glad we watched it. Was it an enjoyable experience? Perhaps not exactly at the time. But is it enjoyable to remember? YES.
It's really too bad that it didn't occur to the filmmakers that Biggles could be the one having adventures in time, because that would have preserved all the time travel elements that are actually fun (basically Peter Cushing and the helicopter; also Biggles could be the one to throw some weird future gadget and yell "GRENADE!") while cutting out the gormless TV dinner company cast completely.
Truly the difference in acting talent between the Biggles crew and the TV dinner sales company is astounding. Every single member of the Biggles cast is having a great time embodying a Boys Own War Hero (or War Villain in Von Stalhein's case) and every single member of Team TV Dinner seems painfully confused to have found themselves on a movie set.
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It's really too bad that it didn't occur to the filmmakers that Biggles could be the one having adventures in time, because that would have preserved all the time travel elements that are actually fun (basically Peter Cushing and the helicopter; also Biggles could be the one to throw some weird future gadget and yell "GRENADE!") while cutting out the gormless TV dinner company cast completely.
Truly the difference in acting talent between the Biggles crew and the TV dinner sales company is astounding. Every single member of the Biggles cast is having a great time embodying a Boys Own War Hero (or War Villain in Von Stalhein's case) and every single member of Team TV Dinner seems painfully confused to have found themselves on a movie set.