'About Time' A Review

About Time is a romantic feelgood movie about a young man who can travel back in time and relive/change parts of his past. The movie follows Tim(Domhnall Gleeson) as he moves to London to becomes a lawyer, falls in love, and starts a family. Tim meets Mary(Rachel McAdams) randomly at a blind restaurant and sparks fly. After a couple hurdles involving time-travel, paradox, and his own ineptitude Tim and Mary get together. The rest of the movie follows their burgeoning life together.

The movie is simple, heartwarming, and fun but at times problematic. Not much time is spent on getting to know Tim and for the first part of the story he comes off relatively sophomoric. There is also little time spent showing how and why Tim and Mary fall in love, there's a montage and were expected to buy that they are. The faults are out weighed by the time travel device and the ease with which McAdams and Gleeson navigate there some what contrived love story. The supporting cast is dynamite with the actors giving stunning depth to characters that must appear startlingly flat on the page, they bolster and patch any remaining flaws.

A buoyant cheerful love story with a cool time travel twist.

Rent It.