If you do not know what to watch on television to occupy your next weekend of long holidays, a nice surprise awaits you on France 2 this Sunday. For the very first time since its release in theaters on August 18, 2022, the film adaptation of the web-series The visitor of the future will be broadcast on a public service channel. But is that worth zapping on the second channel of your TV if you know nothing about this franchise?
Because before being a nice Franco-French science fiction film, The visitor of the future is a vast (and fun) universe that spreads in different format. In addition to the original web-series started in 2009, there is also a comic book, a novel and a manga. As you can see, so that makes a lot of lore to store, enough to suggest a feature film dedicated to the start of the start … but it is not.
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The visitor of the futurewhat does it talk about?
In the web series, the plot started in 2009 while Raph, an ordinary man game, receives the visit of a funny unknown that claims to come from the future. Against all expectations, this visitor to the future is indeed from the year 2550 and tries to prevent the end of the world by modifying the daily life of people in the past. A mission which is mainly limited to spoiling the life of Raph. What started as a sequence of low-budget sketch ended up becoming a full-fledged series, with a convincing science fiction scenario, sprinkled with a particularly effective absurd humor. But despite the many characters and other storylines established over the years, The feature film still manages to be accessible for the general public.
A film that makes everyone agree
The cinematographic adaptation proposes to follow the visitor and RAPH in one of their mission. Since the duo is constantly traveling in time, the film therefore has the freedom to tell its story without having to place rigorous scriptwriters’ bases. All you need to know is that the funny friends seek to save the land from the future of yet another disaster.
To do this, they will have to put an end to a nuclear power plant construction project, led by a certain Gilbert Alibert (Arnaud Ducret). Inevitably, everything is not going to go as planned and what announced as a routine mission is transformed into a frenzied counter-clum race. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know Doctor Henry Castafolte, or even the members of the temporal brigade. The film gives offers enough context to allow anyone to take advantage of this family science fiction film.
However, fans of the first hour will take pleasure in finding some of their favorite characters, as well as first appearances on the screen of characters initially appeared in spin-offs on franchise paper. Without being a masterpiece, this feature film remains beautiful entertainment to discover with family or friends. The French film industry produces science fiction only too rarely, and it is a shame, because The visitor of the future Proves that French filmmakers have excellent ideas to bring to genre. See you this Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2 to discover this film.
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