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Entertainment > Movies > The Time Traveler's Wife--a Movie Review
 

The Time Traveler's Wife--a Movie Review


There are so many holes and irrationalities in "The Time Traveler's Wife" that even with Eric Bana nude in many, many scenes and Rachel McAdams nude in one aren't enough to distract you.

I
am a sucker for romance stories but this one is so implausable and off
putting that the viewer can't/doesn't/won't get involved with the
lovers.

The film opens with with a 30
something nude man, Henry, in a wooded area talking with a 6 year old
girl, Clare, with the same man always losing his clothes when he time
travels and the latter very confusing as to when and where he travels.
The 6 year old grows up to marry the 30 year old man only they are much
closer in age when that takes place, he 28 and she 20, I think.

Clare and Henry, played by Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana,
are the lovers with the latter always leaving the former at the worse,
or most important, times so often that you don't see them together
often enough to feel for them as a couple. We spend so much time with
Clare as a young girl and Henry as a grown man that whatever connection
should be made for us, the movie audience, is lost.

All Eric Bana has to do is look buff in his nudity and he does while Rachel McAdams has to have that 'look' of a woman in hair commercials and she does. Bana does a better job here than he did in "Funny People" but he better come
up with a winning picture or he will become like many other eye candy
actors and just disappear becoming a has been before he is even in the
forefront. McAdams is a pretty woman and could inherit Julia Roberts crown if she gets the right pictures.

This
is the second picture I have seen in two weeks that has unneceassary
narrators that distract from the story and is a factor that I hope is
discontinued quickly. A movie should show, not tell, what happens to
the main characters.

While the supporting players do a decent job they are also distractions, and puzzlements, in the story such as the fathers of Clare and Henry who leave many unanswered questions.  Brooklyn Prouix (who would let a young actress have that name to be listed in credits?)
who plays the young Clare is used way too much, not that she is a bad
actress but that she interferes with the on going story.

Forget
reason, expect confusion and even if you had a time traveler expert I
doubt they could explain this movie--a major disappointment!

posted on Aug 14, 2009 5:53 PM ()

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