From the onset, I was out of synch with this time travel adventure. SEE lauded 2006’s�The Excursionists : An Aristocratic Adventure, but this sequel by Seattle’s comedic duo (Jonah Von Spreecken and Christopher Bange) �misses the mark. The homage to Monty Python�is wonderfully affected, but unfortunately Spreeken and Bange don’t go beyond posturing a well-worn style. Zingy one-liners are tempered by one too many cheesy puns, overdone toilet humour and silly passages that lack pithy weight. The pair is undeniably talented, weaving in several self-reflexive themes and spinning multiple storylines at the same time.� But some sequence transitions are unclear and by the end I just felt tired.� That’s the trouble with venturing into the absurd ; if you don’t fully sell it, all that’s left is a mess.

Two and a half out of five stars.