PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Teddie Blake
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
supernegri
Nice pilot and concept with VERY POOR acting performances and almost worst sequence and logic during the development of the movie, thank god this people didn't get to end the story... maybe later someone with a real cast and some cinematography sense can make something good out of the plot
view_and_review
Oooh the promise this movie had. This movie toyed with a brilliant concept but... just... couldn't... reach..."Parallels", just like the title alludes to, is about parallel universes (or parallel Earths to be more specific). A brother, sister and neighbor stumble upon a building that has the ability to jump them to parallel Earths. The Earths vary from minor differences to major differences and all they want to do is find their father and get back home.The movie starts off great and has some serious promise as they mysteriously end up in another Earth. They are desperate to find answers but the have to navigate their new environment. There is a lot of mystery, danger, suspense and intrigue then it peters out. The three know that they are no longer home but they don't know enough about their new planet, yet they behave as though they do. Instead of being careful they are careless. It just seemed so illogical that it detracted from the overall movie.Couple that with the enormous amount of questions that went unanswered and the movie failed to reach its full potential. They went so far as to end it with the door left wide open for a sequel. Maybe "Parallels" is from a series of books and we've just seen book 1, I don't know. If so, then they have me as a viewer for the sequel. If not, then this was a criminally bad ending.
Jon Howell
If you like a couple Slider episodes combined into a full feature length movie, you'll like Parallels. This movie has nothing original on the parallel-Earths theme except a nice looking high rise building, on the exterior, that's completely trashed and tagged on the interior, as the inter-universe vehicle. The key characters come with their own story- line from their original Earth life, a boxing brother and an Ivy League sister with family issues and their nerd-alert lawyer friend from the neighborhood. My fav character is the alluring Constance Wu, who joins them on the first jump, but plays along with their ignorance when she's obviously an experienced traveler. This script creates more questions than it answers, the doppelgangers the travelers find are kind of funny, there is fair to middling action . . . .and that's about it. It views like a TV pilot that never got funded for a full series.
Alan Jones
What i would like to know, is this a teaser for a new TV show? if so, when? I used to enjoy the old sliders show, and this i think would be a great re-boot of it. so far the acting is fairly good, and the scenes are fairly well thought out. locations are spot on, although maybe a bit rushed in places. OK, the old sliders was a hokey kind of show, where this one seems to at least tie things together, they have left allot of bread crumbs for further expansion of this movie. allot of unanswered questions, makes you want to watch more, but the movie ended abruptly with them on a different earth. i certainly hope they make this in to a TV show.(Seriously 10 lines minimum to be able to make a comment? That's got to be the dumbest thing i have heard of in some time.)
