Sent to Wrong Time!

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Feature Film

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

John Cusack exhibited his most excellent judgment by not reprising his role as Adam from the first tubfest. Nevertheless, we did spend several enjoyable hours up in the ITTDB Citadel trying to devise a timeline model that fits this second adventure of Adam’s three cohorts—one of whom (Jake) also attempts an explanation of how a mortally wounded Lou manages to jump into his future, healthy body. In his explanation, the trio of travelers go to 2025 in a timeline that branched off from their own timeline—in particular, a timeline where Lou was never shot. Perhaps they are even in the very timeline that was created after the trio returns to 2015 and Lou is not shot. That means that they’re living in the 2025 timeline at a point in their personal lives that’s before their actions created that timeline. —Michael Main
So, Lou was killed in our present, which means that here in the future, he should still be dead. Well, clearly he’s not fucking dead, because he’s sitting here, still bothering me. So what that tells me is we’re in a completely different future on a completely different timeline. [. . .] Anyway, the repairman said that the past is actually the future of the present that we’re in right now. So I think what that means is the killer is from the future. So clearly, someone from 2025 will go back in time and shoot Lou.
The move’s four main yahoos, dressed as astronauts, pose in front of a full moon.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 25*

Shadow of the Shark

As a thank-you gift from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans instead. —based on fandom.com
On a log raft in rough water, Jack uses a paddle to fight off a shark while Annie clings on for dear life behind him.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Magician’s Horses

Dave is offered a small fortune to help two adventurous scientists disappear into the future. But being left behind by the closest he has to family isn’t the bargain the orphaned teenager expects. When Dave follows his mentors, calibration issues separate him from Doc and Sally by untold years.

Alone once again, he struggles to fit into a utopian world that fears his connections to the past.
Facing an unjust persecution, he must find Doc and Sally or be forced to flee deeper into the future. —from publicity material
I’ve been able to successfully generate an energy field that will completely isolate all objects within it, creating a situation that resembles complete atomic suspended animation.
City skyscrapers hang upside down over a green field with domed tents.
  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Feature Film

Escape 2120

  • written and directed by Brian K. Bennett
  • (premiered at the Peoples Bank Theatre, Marietta, Ohio, 10 July 2020)
A young man, orphaned as a child, is taken in by an elderly couple who want his help traveling a century into the future. —from publicity material
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the phrase “suspended animation.” Well, forget everything you knew about that. Thats not what happens here, but its close enough.
A teenage boy stands in wilderness with a modern city seen behind him through a transparent clockface.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and his goddaughter set out to find the missing half of Archimedes’s “clock” (or Antikythera Mechanism). With all the usual hair-raising chases, stunts, Nazis (or former Nazis), and the added twist of some actual time travel near the end. —Tandy Ringoringo
Helena: Well, for starters, you’d have changed the course of history.
Indy: That supposed to be a bad thing?
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Mainstream
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

Time Bandits, s01e08

Home Again

Hooray! At last they think they’re headed home, but Widget’s reading of The Map is a few decades off. —Michael Main
Kevin: But what if we do something wrong and stop ourselves from existing?
Saphron: If we stop ourselves from existing, then we won’t exist to stop ourselves from existing. That means we’ll exist, won’t we? Think about it.
Roger Jean Nsengiyumva (as Widget) reads The Map.
  • Undetermined
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel