A Wrinkle In Time Review: 3 Ups & 6 Downs

1. It's Unintentionally Funny...A Lot

There are also many moments throughout the film that are meant to be charmingly offbeat but may end up having you laughing for the wrong reasons.

Giant Oprah showing up on a majestic plain and having her face touched by Charles Wallace, for instance, is more amusingly creepy than stunning to behold, and there's even an unfortunate sequence where a character tells Meg, "Shut up Meg!", unintentionally referencing the very same line used so frequently in Family Guy.

Throw in a litany of hokey fantasy movie tropes and some toe-curlingly bad dialogue (Oprah plainly tells Meg to "be a warrior" with no additional advice or context), and the film may have you at least grinning at it (rather than with it).

It's a disappointment, absolutely, but not an unassailable trainwreck. A Wrinkle in Time is salvaged from being a one-star dumpster fire thanks to these appealing elements...