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I agree with you that there were definitely plot holes towards the end of the movie involving time travel. I don't agree with the people saying it's just a comedy. I mean there are time travel comedies without plot holes (well at least 1: Back to the Future).

I will say this though. Every time travel movie has its own rules. I think in this movie one rule is everyone would remember everything that happened and that we just have to accept that as a fact.

As for the other holes I don't think there is a logical explanation given because it would be hard to explain and I think some things can be left to the imagination like what Pete did all those years and how exactly all the time traveling took place. The not knowing I think makes his appearance more exciting and adds to the comedy what with him having changed so suddenly in our eyes.

Overall, I would just like to encourage more people to ask questions like this. Enough with all the hate! I mean look at the title of this movie and tell me honestly that people shouldn't be having discussions like this!



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At OP:

1) Same thing, I suppose, as what went on with the paper. Whatever they thought of, the audience could have thought of something a lot better. He really just didn't want to talk about it.

2) Maybe she was dating him for two years in an alternate dimension. Maybe she came back from two years and four months ago.

3) This one is a hole, couldn't figure anything out, but oh well, I'll live. If there's a sequel, it'll probably make sense.

4) There wasn't a parallel universe story. It was a couple of minutes at the end of the film.

At Jess:

1) The pub didn't exist, but the rip in time did. I don't think the toilets were time travelling rooms, a rip in time just happened to be in there, probably because then they could use the great "There's a leak in the toilet" joke.

2) I figured that when they become super famous for whatever was on the paper, they just described how they were sitting, most likely after half an hour of debating who sat where and who had drank the most.

3) Millie wanted to kill them right after because as Cassie said, they like to kill people as soon as they've done whatever it is that would make them great.

4) I don't remember anyone saying it took two months to fix the leak. I always wondered about the old dude that walked in as they were doing their wee dance.

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Like how the hell did Pete get back to the pub if he fell into a time where the pub didn't exist Or am I being really stupid?

The latter. The pub did exist, it was just hard to get to since the ground level was lower. If the pub didn't exist, Pete couldn't have fallen out of the bathroom door, could he?

Think of the bathroom as being displaced in time along with the travelers. Wherever the bathrooms takes them, they also exists at that point in time.

In order to access the mens room, he would have had to find a way to climb up to it.

And who even saw them all there with their piece of paper to make them famous.

Keep in mind that what we see when our characters are time traveling is all stemming from the timeline where Milly kills them in the pub. Hence why they're famously in the clothes they pick up while time traveling.

Nobody would have to see them in the booth. They would just have to see their dead bodies in the pub.

And why did Millie wanna kill them before they had even been discovered. None of it made much sense to me.

Yes, it does. As was mentioned in the film, the idea of Editing is to kill an artist before they can tarnish their ultimate accomplishment with lesser works. The example they used was killing Lucas before he could make the prequel Star Wars films. That way the image of the original three is never tarnished by the terrible prequels.

Also if it took 2 months to sort out 1 time leak how many others ended up in the exact same position as the guys going through the 2 time leaks

We don't know and it doesn't really matter. The story isn't about any of those people.

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" and how had the main guy been dating anna faris for 2 years.

He'll eventually run into her in his future and his past, and they'll date. "

I am in the mood to resurrect something old.

First of all, it's not Anna Faris, it's Kate.

Second of all, that wouldn't really work - because if it happened that way, anna Faris would then have dated him for FOUR years, and he would only have TWO years - but that would be impossible, because she ALREADY HAS dated him for two years, so he can't date THAT version of Kate, he has to find her two years younger version somehow, and start dating her (with the knowledge that they will date at least two years, knowledge, which might change things).

The only even relative plausible explanation is that the ending caused such an interdimensional time-rip that Kate met some OTHER version of him (from some other dimension, or timeline, for example) two years ago (or 'today', but went on dating him for two years, before attempting to fix the rip (which would in itself be illogical - why would she just happily date some guy without even attempting to do her job, and let the Universe get ripped to shreds, and only after two years has passed, will she pick up her gear and go to the past, to meet the version of her boyfriend that has not yet dated her (a fact that she should be AWARE OF, and not disturb things further by revealing anything to him, let alone kiss him or whatnot))..

Hmm.. I probably left out a lot of things, but the point is -- THE MOVIE MAKES NO SENSE!!

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