History Film / ProjectAlmanac

* DumbBlonde: Christina is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]]. She's not ''exactly'' unintelligent but she lacks the science smarts of David or Adam or (to a much lesser extent) Adam and she comes across as less perceptive and witty that Jessie. She is also TheWatson of the group meaning if any concept or technology has to explained it is mostly explained to Christina (“Can you guys speak English?")

* DumbBlonde: Christina is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]]. She's not ''exactly'' unintelligent but she lacks the science smarts of David or Adam or (to a much lesser extent) Adam and she comes across as less perceptive and witty that Jessie. She is also TheWatson of the group meaning if any concept or technology has to explained it mostly explained to Christina (“Can you guys speak English?")

* DumbBlonde: Christina is a [[Downplayed downplayed example]]. She's not exactly unintelligent but she lacks the science smarts of David or Adam or (to a much lesser extent) Adam and she comes across as less perceptive and witty that Jessie. She is also TheWatson of the group meaning if any concept or technology has to explained it mostly explained to Christina (“Can you guys speak English?")

** [[spoiler:Given the ending, perhaps the David on the video was yet another timeline. Another timey wimey issue - when they travel more than once to the same time, what do they do with the earlier time travelling versions of themselves?]].

* TemporalMutability:

** Jessie's keychain which later becomes a plot device is a keychain of PrincessTutu.

* AlphaBitch: Sarah Nathan, who constantly bullies Christina
* CommonPlaceRare: The machine needs hydrogen to work. This can be obtained by running an electric current through water, but David opts to steal bottles of it instead.

* ForWantOfANail: The major conflict of the second half of the movie. [[spoiler: When they first fired up the machine, it blew the power on the street which caused the school's star basketball player to get run over and get his leg broken. This causes the team to not go to the championship, which prevents people from going to the game; including one of the student's parents who's a pilot. Said pilot ends up crashing a plane and killing a lot of people as a result]]
* FridgeLogic: Given that these characters are high school kids, they shouldn't have been able to buy a lottery ticket, since you have to be 21 to get one.
** Actually, in many places you only have to be 18, which is a distinct possibility considering they were seniors.

* MsFanservice: Jessie.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: The previews imply that encountering your past self face to face will not end well.
** As it turns out, [[spoiler: it erases both of you from the time stream, which causes [[TimeCrash FURTHER damage to it]] and worldwide catastrophe.]]
* ProductPlacement: They gut an Xbox 360 for parts to the time machine. A later and far more blatant example is during the first test of the machine, everything goes in slow motion and it holds on a can of red bull spinning in the air
* RippleEffectProofMemory: The first indicator that something is wrong when things start to change, but the main characters don't remember them happening

* ShoutOut: To numerous time travel films and shows like ''Film/{{Looper}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''. One of the guys even watches ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' at school.
** Jessie's keychain which later becomes a plot device is a keychain of PrincessTutu
* SternTeacher

* TimeyWimeyBall: The entire movie begins because David finds a video of his current day self at his seventh birthday party [[spoiler: which he later does,]] suggesting a StableTimeLoop. However, all of the drama in the movie came from the group altering time from the [[ForWantOfANail ripple effect]].
** Also, at the end when he does go back to his birthday [[spoiler: it's to destroy the time machine. And he succeeds. Therefore, a timeline that has both filmed evidence of adult him at his seventh birthday party and a working time machine make zero sense.]]
* XMeetsY: ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' meets ''Film/TheButterflyEffect''
** Or ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' meets ''Film/{{Minutemen}}''

* RippleEffect: The major conflict of the second half of the movie. [[spoiler: When they first fired up the machine, it blew the power on the street which caused the school's star basketball player to get run over and get his leg broken. This causes the team to not go to the championship, which prevents people from going to the game; including one of the student's parents who's a pilot. Said pilot ends up crashing a plane and killing a lot of people as a result]]

MsFanservice: Jessie.

* MaleGaze: Christina is prone to this several times courtesy of the camera itself.

* TeenGenius: David along with Quinn and Adam.

-->''"Today is better...the second time around".''

''Project Almanac'' is a 2015 [[FoundFootageFilms found footage]] sci-fi teen thriller. It was directed by Dean Isrealite.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' meets ''Film/TheButterflyEffect''

* ShoutOut: To numerous time travel films and shows like ''Film/{{Looper}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''. One of the guys even watches ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' at school.

* ShoutOut: To numerous time travel films and shows like Film/{{Looper}} and Series/DoctorWho. One of the guys even watches Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure at school.

* ShoutOut: To numerous time travel films and shows like [[Film/{{Looper}}]] and [[Series/DoctorWho]]. One of the guys even watches [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure]] at school.