hines and goforth and the perpetrator of this crime and begin on the wrong foot first step and by assume that well write gothic horror and that all of his line be mean to be take seriously . that simply isn not true . well be very much an inheritor of the enlightenment and and his main concern be that victorian self satisfaction might leave the british unprepared for the world the new technology could produce both the good and the bad . two terrible consequence follow the protagonist be portray a a wimpy screamer ( i be remind of fay wray in the original king kong ) and rather than a man struggle to live out the irony of an unbelievable catastrophe while and the dialog reek of victorianisms utter seriously that well clearly mean to be take tongue in cheek . all of this look suspiciously like ed wood with an enormous budget to waste on cgi effect which by the way be so poorly accomplish and the warner bros. cartoon factory of the 1940s could have do a good job . ( gob of spattered blood look like red balloon and i expect them to float away any minute . ) think the yellow submarine a do by the old ec comic . bad yet be the loss of theme and which rob the film of any reason to exist . although the maker of this film return the story to it victorian era and they utterly miss the uncanny way well story predict many of the horror of the first world war a fact not unnoticed by well himself and who and after the war and rework the theme in the shape of thing to come . without any theme and all we have here be a lot of people run around get blast into cartoon balloon and when theyre not try out for a high school production of a drunken student rewrite of macbeth . really and this be the bad and most senseless piece of drivel i have suffer through since a friend talk me into see the eastern european cartoon fantastic planet thirty year ago . that film be so pretentiously dull and my friend and i and two total stranger give up ridicule it about half way through and and sit near the screen playing card and use the movie a light by which to see the card it only usefulness and as far a any of u could tell . but i already have electric lighting in my apartment and so i do not need this put down of well for anything . do not avoid this film steal every copy you can ( do not pay a cent ) and burn each and every one of them . god in his wisdom create u just for this purpose .