The worst movie I’ve seen in a theater this year.

What? I should expand on that?

First, the dog doesn’t die. However, multiple cats do. That’s weird.

Okay, my problem here is that the movie doesn’t seem to be about anything. They have a high level concept and that’s it. That concept doesn’t serve anything.

Okay, so we have a couple played by Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. This is the early 80s, their marriage is falling apart and their kids are aware of it. However, one night their whole neighborhood is teleported into the past (apparently at least 200 million years) and suddenly they have to contend with some very big animals, mostly dinosaurs, wanting to eat them.

So, again, there’s a high level concept here. A wormhole moving them into the past. But that’s it. After that everything is forced. Like their son sees their dog outside, so he leaves and their daughter leaves to find him, so the parents need to leave the house as well, putting them all in danger, because nothing else was happening.

The movie itself is so boring that I kept thinking about various things in the movie that just don’t feel right. Like why would there be plenty of uneaten corpses everywhere? The dinosaurs attack humans specifically to eat them, but for some reason all of these people died just because. There’s a brontosaur or something eating ice cream from the back of an ice cream van. Doesn’t seem like a good idea, because that dinosaur would not have the bacteria needed to handle the lactose. Why is the bully trying to kill the son even in this hellscape? There are so many stupid things in this movie. If the movie was fine otherwise, I probably wouldn’t care and in many cases even notice, but since the whole movie is so boring, I just can’t not pay attention to these things.

There are interesting hooks at times, but they are just forgotten. Like at one point Hathaway’s character realizes that they should be scrounging for supplies, because they will run out soon, and others will be doing that. Except that they don’t do that. That seemed like an important inflection point, but nothing happened.

Also, one thing we know about humans: In these kinds of situations, people come together. Sure, this goes against what the people in power want to believe and tell us, but this is true. In this case, none of that. Every family for themselves.

This is just not a good movie. The script is just very bad. I guess they kind of try to show a reconciliation between the wife and the husband, but that is handled so, so clumsily.