Not even bad in a good way

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Nothing makes me feel more soft and more warm than the softness of this in and out again dream within a dream. Although an impossibly true fantastic fantasy, this loving and warm movie is so endearing, it will stay within your heart till the end of time. I am not providing a summary of this movie but however an emotion that is evoked and felt in all totality upon watching and feeling every moment of this film. Watch it in quietness, watch it in happiness and watch it with those that you love. Let it surround you in a warm enveloping feeling.

I was rather looking forward to this because time travel is so full of conundrums and paradoxes. The concept can be played with and variously shaped.This one takes a shape too, but it's a variation on an all too familiar theme. A beautiful young couple fall hopelessly in love and then it develops that the tall, handsome man has something wrong with him and it interferes with their happiness. There's something he's keeping secret from her, something he may not even be able to control. Does he have a secret identity -- a CIA agent or a Mafia hit man? Nope. Is it another woman? Uh-uh. Is it a disease? Well -- yes and no.Eric Bana, the hunky time traveler doesn't know whether he's coming or going, and when he's gone, nobody knows where to. I'll tell you, it's a great big nuisance. How would YOU like it if, on your wedding night, you were lying on the bed laughing while your newly minted husband is jumping on the mattress for pure joy and then suddenly, POOF, and there's nothing there but a rumpled tuxedo? Talk about your major disappointment! It's all pretty generic. It has Bana tripping through time, often at awkward moments, and meeting cute little Rachel McAdams, first at the age of about six and then, on and off, until they're both in their twenties.There's only so much the script can do with Bana's peregrinations so another difficulty is introduced at about the halfway point. He has a "genetic anomaly" that's not only responsible for his travels (apparently, the explanation is murky) but also makes it impossible for McAdams to have her cherished baby with his genes."Groundhog Day" dealt with the opposite problem. Bill Murray was stuck in one single day, living it over and over. And a romance provided the spine for that story too. But "Groundhog Day" was a success, a hilarious comedy built around a credible romance.In contrast, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is a soap opera with a lemon twist. No kidding. At one point, Bana manages to be absent for two weeks and she chides him for missing both Christmas and New Years. Then she gathers her gear and begins to stalk off to work. "Wait!", calls Bana, "We have to talk!" We have to talk. That's a woman's line. No man, in the history of full-blooded manliness, has ever uttered those words. Try to imagine John Wayne saying they have to talk, perhaps going deeper into introspection. "We have to talk. I feel -- kind of -- all empty inside when you're -- not with me. Are we drifting apart?"The tall, handsome, soft spoken, clearly heterosexual Eric Bana is every woman's dream mate -- except for one thing. He can't bring money with him from wherever he's been before. McAdams' family is rich, judging from the very formal wedding ceremony and its accouterments. It had a band and everyone was in evening clothes. I went through a wedding too, but it was under a plastic arch festooned with plastic flowers and cob webs.She's rich, but he's poor. The dream mate must be rich, if he's not going to be a poor genius. The movie solves this by having Bana memorize a winning lottery number and winning five million bucks. Problem solved, except for that nettlesome business about the miscarriages.I didn't really watch it until the end because I did some time traveling myself and saw her beaming over the cooing baby she held in her arms. Whether Bana was still there or not, I couldn't tell. The vision, like the movie, was turgid.

Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana star in "The Time Traveler's Wife," from 2009. Directed by Robert Schwentke and based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger, it tells the story of Henry DeTamble.Henry (Eric Bana) works as a special collections librarian. He has an anomaly he was born with which allows him to travel in time. He never knows when or where he's going.When Clare Abshire meets him, she invites him to dinner -- she has been in love with him since she was six years old. He finds out that he visited her often when she was a child. They fall in love and marry.It turns out that being married to a time traveler isn't all it's cracked up to be. Henry always leaves unexpectedly and sometimes is gone for a while, and it can happen at any time.Good movie, with wonderful performances by both leads, who have good chemistry. Rachel McAdams to me is scarily like Jennifer Garner. She's lovely and sympathetic as Clare, and Bana, a fine actor, is very effective as Henry, whose visits to the future don't always make him comfortable.Depending on your mood, this bittersweet story can be a real tear- jerker. It got to me and I cried, I admit it.I think the tale says that we have to deal with what we're given, even if it's not always convenient. We are not always the masters of our abilities.

I enjoyed the movies story, I got lost trying to follow his movements,then understanding how two Alba's can stand next to each other.The comment I need to make it, I just now finished watching this movie, the relationship between Alba and her mother was so real with love and emotion the two actors were so moving with the maternal love and effect ion that parents can give a child, and these two pulled it off.I missed the first fifteen minutes I'll have to catch up, I want to understand his moving back and forth, how he can be gone, then show up within an hour coming back through the door.