A Wrinkle in Time is a fantasy adventure film that tries to be mystical, abstract, epic and magical at the same time. The strongest part of the film is probably the first ten minutes as it sets up the plot. Meg was in a happy family, with a loving father and mother. However, soon after her brother is adopted, their father mysteriously disappears. Four years on, Meg is shown to be bullied at school and generally unhappy with her life. Eventually, she discovers that her father, who was a renowned scientist from Nasa, was investigating "tessering", a way to teleport to other worlds (or just worlds really far away). While the film is about Meg's quest to find her father, it is filled with bland characters that tries to be quirky but ends up being uninteresting. The film heavily relies on special effects as it is showing off the wonders of these far away worlds but it does more to pull you away than it does to immerse you. The special effects feel a notch down in quality, and a lot of it feels too plasticky and fake. The story doesn't pick up, all the while you watch with the expectation that it'll speed up and something big will happen but it never does. A Wrinkle in Time feels messy and hodgepodge together that it never ever gets even close to what it wants itself to be.