I like old sci-fi movies, even the bad ones, which were numerous. Some are bad enough to be good. But this one is so bad it hurts to watch it. Dialogue is worse than a middle school play, as is the acting. I tried to love this for being so bad it's funny, but it's not funny, just sad. Watcher beware!

Remake is too kind a description for this rip-off of The Time Travelers (1964). This rehash steals not only the concept of TT, but even uses the same graphic of the future spaceship-in-the-crater. The budget is much cheaper and the effects inferior, so instead of walking through the time portal they have to exit the time pod through a door. They then use the cheap ploy of traveling to the distant past, the standard indoor jungle set, to save money. The makers rip off the frozen time idea, but without the cool foreshadowing used in the original, as well as the repeated scenes at the end but without the acceleration and at a ploddingly slow pace. Standard time wasting montages are used to increase running time gratuitously, but not bad enough to be funny (like They Saved Hitler's Brain). I strongly suggest that if you like campy old sci-fi you watch The Time Travelers instead. Same story, better effects, better use of the concept, and has humor and light sexual innuendo that makes it campy fun. If you are like me and can enjoy a bad movie for just the appreciation of its intrinsic badness, all the tricks bad movie makers use to get their cheap movie made, you might want to see this once. Otherwise go with the original.

This is a dreadful waste of opportunity.We have a group of scientists who have developed a time travel machine and then proceed to travel through stock footage of whatever bit of b/w film the director was given. Because of the total lack of soul on the director's part the film doesn't even have the quaintness of some of the awful 1950s sci fi. There is no plot and it seems like it was made up as they went along.Lack of budget is no excuse - watch "The Rhythm thief" which was made recently for under $1000 and is excellent.Ed Wood would have done better.

*Spoiler/plot- Journey to the Center of Time, 1967. A team of scientists under th money constraints of a abrasive multi-millionaire benefactor try to develop a atomic laser powered time travel device that comes to a sad conclusion for all involved.*Special Stars- Abraham Sofaer, Lyle Waggoner, Scott Brady, Anthony Eisley. *Theme- Time travel is a dream and sometimes a nightmare.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, This film is a remake of a film titled, 'The Time Travelers'(64) due to one of the producers being dissatisfied with the previously made film. Be sure to not miss the performance or introduction of Poupee' Gamin as the alien leader woman and she leaves the film industry as quickly as she entered it.. Giant Spider rat on the time screen is from American International B-Movies, 'Angry Red Planet'. Watch for the mentioning of the 'Time Vault' and fun use of an inventive time vault electronic door.*Emotion- I usually enjoy any Time Travel films. In fact that genre is one of the most popular with the film viewing audience over many decades. After watching several minutes of this film, I realized I had seen another version. This updated film is a BAD rip-off of the better AIP film, The Time Travelers (64). This makes me sad, but I know too often Hollywood will buy and try to make better other film properties done in the recent past. Sometimes this works and sometimes fails. This one fails. My recommendation is to NOT see the 1967 version and compare the two. It was only two years later that a BAD copy-cat version was produced. Since this film had my favorite subject, Time Travel; I wanted to see it. Unfortunately, I have seen many better and worse B-movies involving this topic. I recalled some of the same dialog from a excellent time travel film called, The Time Travelers. This is a semi-remake. I found out that the producers of that film had disagreed and one of them wanted to make 'his' film in his way and this is what 'Journey to the Center of Time' is. BUT, this film is disappointing in cheap sets, bad direction, worse editing, and flat ending. It's a total mess even with an easy moneymaking scifi topic of time travel that missed the mark completely. Forget this film and go see 'The Time Travelers' instead..