{"id":1360,"date":"2024-06-20T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/relax-im-from-the-future\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T09:52:56","slug":"relax-im-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/relax-im-from-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax, I’m From the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in \u201cRelax, I\u2019m From the Future,\u201d a sci-fi comedy with a modest sense of humor but tangled message to share with humankind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone else being able to nail a clown so in over their head but also innocent and earnest as Darby\u2019s Casper, who suddenly appears in our period in a purple jumpsuit with notes scribbled on his hands. Darby has mastered this bumbling nature more or less in comedy series like as the clueless manager Murray in \u201cFlight of the Conchords\u201d or clueless pirate Stede Bonnet in \u201cOur Flag Means Death,\u201d and he is an immediately endearing presence in writer\/director Luke Higginson’s directorial debut, getting socked in the face trying to assure a suburban dad with the movie\u2019s title.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Days into wandering earth and being surprised that libraries still exist at this point in the past, he meets Holly, a self-described \u201cqueer Black vagina-haver.\u201d Darby\u2019s own grace in not breaking, or overselling his rich persona is matched by Gabrielle Graham’s equally sharp performance. The two have instantly affable chemistry right after Holly sees Casper on the street and gives him her trash nachos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Casper may be from the future, but she is the story\u2019s vision of the present, as someone who participates in protests to change what problems have stemmed from the past. Bonding one night after watching Canadian pop-punk gods Pup and snorting cocaine (which Casper says becomes legal), the two share a bottle of booze during a convo that circles the value of the present. Pup gets worse, so you better enjoy them now, according to Casper, while Holly states that history is \u201ca f**king trash barrel.\u201d As he sometimes does with people in this timeline, Casper comforts her that \u201cthings do get a lot better,\u201d but then doesn\u2019t exactly detail how.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Casper is indeed the real futuristic deal, and he helps get his new friend Holly rich with sports bets intel to prove it and also set up his larger goals. His voice-over indicates that he has a plan, though he doesn\u2019t reveal it to us\u2014one of a few ways in which Higginson\u2019s script starts off funny but cuts itself a bit short, minimizing its momentum in the process. Nor are Casper’s clumsy antics\u00a0laugh-out-loud enough\u00a0to distract from how its time-traveling narrator sometimes drags our anticipation from one light-hearted scene to the next. Darby\u2019s widened eyes in scenes where he steps on proverbial rakes\u00a0can only take us so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to him, Casper is being hunted by a sleek, lonely, always-wearing black assassin named Doris (Janine Theriault), who is also from the future but without a single ray of enjoying life that Casper has. When she\u2019s not sitting in a bland apartment having dinner opposite some busted projection of some type of relationship, or in therapy,\u00a0she\u2019s hunting other people who appear in jumpsuits, wielding a blaster that detects people by one quality: whether they make an impact on the world. When the light of her iron-like weapon indicates, she makes them disappear in one of Higginson\u2019s puffs of brief special effects.\u00a0Casper is her next target.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in \u201cRelax, I\u2019m From the Future,\u201d a sci-fi comedy with a modest sense of humor but tangled message to share with humankind.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone else being able to nail a clown so in over their head but also innocent and earnest …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[33,51],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction-movies","tag-comedy","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}