Time Travel is a funny thing, everyone knows about it and has an opinion on it as over the last 100 or so years we have been exposed to it through literature, cinema and more often than not TV with our own Timelord the Doctor who explained it recently being like a big ball of string, kind of wibbly wobbly/timey wimey which says lots. So when your sitting down the pub with your mates (one of them a geek possibly?) and are discussing time travel and all its paradoxes and problems then you would probably not expect to find a time leak in the mens toilets of your local.

This is precisely what this excellent new film is about as 3 friends Ray (Chris ODowd), Toby (Marc Wootton) and Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) accidentally discover a leak in time in the gents and by mishap and misadventure end up becoming unstuck in time and try desperately to get back to their normal boring pub. Throw in Anna Faris as Cassie a kind of Time Police woman who plugs these leaks and endangers herself when Ray falls for her and she sort of for him and you have all the ingredients which at first glance look like a massive sci-fi flop but hells bells this is actually amazing stuff!

Right off its great that the concept really starts as 3 blokes chatting bollocks in an old pub and what would happen if you could time travel and low and behold it happens to them but with massive consequences and a certain set of rules in that in order for them to get back they cant stray from the confines of the pub or its garden meaning we get an entire mini sci-fi epic set in an old boozer.

The central performances are brilliant from a spot on ODowd from the I.T. Crowd who has already proved his comedy and geek credentials and is genuinely likeable and funny as Ray. Lennox Kelly as Pete is recognisable from Shameless and does well as his cynical character Pete until he sees the proof for himself that is, while Toby is the fat loser and Wootton plays him just like that and gets the many laughs of the film.

The revelation is Faris who we already know is great at comedy but here she provides a believability to her character and a sweetness too proving she is going to go on to great things in the future. The script from Jamie Mathieson is sharp, intelligent and full of enough geek references to keep them all happy and also savvy in its time travel twistedness to interest scientists as well, as I can just imagine Professor Hawking getting a real robotic giggle out of this.

Its simply shot but manages to have a spectacular opening sequence that will have belly laughs from an audience and even though its set in only 1 main location it has to redress this set many times in different ways. Yes, it is bandied around a lot about new cult films and that they are instant classics but this little British gem is destined to be something that will collect a following faster than a Paris Hilton sex tape. See this with your mates male and female and enjoy a genuinely funny and intelligent British film. Beam me up!

4 out of 5