filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

JohnHowardReid 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".

1bilbo 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.

Leofwine_draca When 'Charles Band Productions' comes up in the opening credits it gives a clue as to this film's content: Band's B-movies have always tended to focus on low-rent special effects over the necessities of plotting and dialogue. As it turns out, THE DAY TIME ENDED is one of the most plot less films I've ever watched; it tells a story via action with no real explanation as to what's going on. At the end you'll be scratching your head and wondering what you watched.What story there is begins with a rural family meeting up in a remote desert house. This reunion soon descends into calamity with the arrival of mini alien spaceships and even a few flesh-and-blood critters who seem intent on wreaking havoc. It's all to do with some strange alignment in outer space, but other than that I really had no idea what was going on...or, indeed, who the 'good' aliens and 'bad' aliens were.As is typical for a low-budget B-movie, hardly any attention is given to the performances, although there are a surprising number of familiar faces in the cast. Jim Davis and Dorothy Malone bring gravitas as the old-timers, Robert Mitchum's lad Chris shows up, and the little girl from THE ENTITY and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR has a major role. The special effects are pretty ropey, although I always enjoy stop motion no matter what, but it is all rather silly and ends up descending into farce at the climax. John 'Bud' Cardos made some great little films in the 1970s like KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS and THE DARK, but this ain't one of them!

Aaron1375 Hurray, this film exists. I always remembered a film from my childhood that had two stop motion monsters fighting outside a house and there being strange lights. For years I wondered if it actually existed at all, and then I happened to get it on a pack of 50 films! I was not even trying to find this one, I just always wanted to see a couple of the films on this pack and figured a lot of extra movies would not hurt. So I ended up finding this one, and it only took the first time seeing the house in the middle of nowhere for me to recall the film I saw as a child.The story in this one is just about nonexistent. People drive out to their solar powered ranch home and they come under attack from aliens and other weird things. Every description says they are transported to prehistoric times, but I have never seen the monsters this film features in any science books as dinosaurs. The aliens are sometimes friendly, sometimes play with your mind and sometimes fly around in vacuums that emit death rays.The acting in this thing is kind of bad. The grandfather is okay at times, but his facial expressions do not fit the situation and the daughter's fretting was getting on my nerves. The grandmother looks like she is in genuine pain when she and the grandfather go to bed and the father trying to get back home is an obvious plot padding device for an extremely short film. To bad no one gets killed in this one.So no gore, no nudity, basically no nothing. A bunch of cheap effects and a couple of interesting scenes here and there. There is a scene that reminded me of Kingdom of the Spiders, and it turns out there is a tie to that film. It also has a Laser Blast feel to it, but I could not find any ties to that film. The ending is way to happy, the whole thing has a television vibe to it as it almost seems to be a pilot for a television show that never made it beyond its pilot. Still, it is nice to know it exists as an actual movie and not just in my mind. A kid may enjoy it, I remember liking it, but that is because of the monsters that are not dinosaurs.