Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: It's all in the score

My recommendation is to rent the DVD and watch it once for the special effects, particularly the time machine itself, a well-rendered combination of mock-up and computer graphics. While you're at it, pay special attention to Klaus Badelt's magnificent symphonic score, then buy the soundtrack CD and forget the movie. As others have said, the plot is puerile and forgettable. Among multifarious problems, the callow kid played by actor Guy Pearce has in no way the scientific gravitas to invent a time machine (I wish I did). Instead of the movie, I recommend reading Wells' groundbreaking sci-fi novel of the same name while listening to Badelt's score. Symphonic music is not dead, friends, it lives on in movie scores like this one (replete with a choral Eloi theme worthy of the very Garden of Eden). One can only hope that, when the next really grand movie does come along - David Lean style, they will get a composer as good as Badelt to score it.