Oh boy, let’s get this one out of the way first, shall we? During a red-eye flight, the majority of people on board a passenger plane end up vanishing into thin air. The only folks remaining happened to be asleep whenever this strange occurrence happened. After landing the plane, the survivors find themselves in an alternate dimension that looks like ours, but where things don’t quite work right. And oh yeah, there are flying cartoon meatballs with fangs on the way! Adapted from the novella of the same name, “The Langoliers” is a complete bust. It’s never scary, it’s never interesting, and when the titular time-eating monsters show up, they’re laughable to the extreme. Even hardcore King fans want to forget about this.
