{"id":3547,"date":"2016-07-03T11:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:07:30","slug":"safety-not-guaranteed-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Safety Not Guaranteed-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Safety Not Guaranteed-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Colin Trevorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Mark Duplass, Aubrey Plaza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #440<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70227946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3548\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70227946-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70227946\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70227946-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70227946.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed July 3, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Safety Not Guaranteed is similar in style to another 2012 independent film, Ruby Sparks, in that both pose the question, &#8220;Is this fantasy or reality?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film explores time travel.<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on a magazine journalist who, along with two interns, follows a man convinced he is building a time-travel machine.<\/p>\n<p>The story then develops into a romantic comedy of sorts, and the audience is unsure whether the guy is crazy or a true genius.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting concept, intelligently written, and Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass are both quite likable in the lead roles.<\/p>\n<p>The one flaw for me was, at times, the movie dove into slapstick territory with a silly secondary story of a stereotypically written Indian character attempting to lose his virginity.<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) has intriguing intentions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 1 win-<\/strong>Best First Screenplay <strong>(won)<\/strong>, Best First Feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety Not Guaranteed-2012 Director Colin Trevorrow Starring Mark Duplass, Aubrey Plaza Scott&#8217;s Review #440 Reviewed July 3, 2016 Grade: B- Safety Not Guaranteed is similar in style to another 2012 independent film, Ruby Sparks, in that both pose the question, &#8220;Is this fantasy or reality?&#8221; The film explores time travel. The story centers on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safety Not Guaranteed-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,41,215,45,103],"tags":[3523,3522,6689,12229,12606,12605,3112,3315,12328],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-comedies","category-indiefilms","category-indie-comedies","category-romcoms","category-scifi","tag-aubrey-plaza","tag-colin-trevorrow","tag-jake-johnson","tag-jeff-garlin","tag-jenica-bergere","tag-karan-soni","tag-kristen-bell","tag-mark-duplass","tag-mary-lynn-rajskub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24385,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/24385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}