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I wasn't really looking forward to reviewing the Time Travellers Wife, it appeared to be some soppy, romantic, melodrama type film - which just happened to include time traveller. However for the good of the genre, I opened my package from Warners and sat down to watch it

You know what? it's not too bad, admittedley I'm not going to put up there with Lord of the Rings - but as a chick flick and something to watch with disinterested partner who doesn't know her Klingon from her Ewok it's worthwhile entertainment.

Eric Bana plays the aforemetioned Time Traveller - who's powers are revealed when he's just a young boy, and he avoids a crash which kills his mother, and we are then swiftly thrown into the future where we see the naked Time Traveller (Like Arnie you can't take your clothes with you, when you time travel).

He then encounters a girl who recognises him and reveals that he has been visiting her since she was a little girl (Creepy much?).. Anywho he eventually marries this girl (Yeah this is still creepy) and the film follows them through their life togehter and them dealing with his time travelling escapades.

To be honest, all this film is about Time Travel, it's never really used to it's potential or cleverly. I was dissappointed that there was no joining up the dot's when we see him on his little jaunts, to show some reasons behind his random jumps or how that impacts his future/past self, instead they really are just random jumps. It would have been better at the beginning to show these visitations out of context - so then you could unravel the clues and solve the mysteries etc and go "oh that's why he had to do that" or "that's what she meant..". 

Sadly nothing is made out of much of his Time travel endeavours - indeed they don't seem to advance the plot of film at all - apart from when he jumps forwards in time and see's his daughter.

Anywho.. the main plot device turns out to be a very thin wafer of plot device and is just used to flash forwards' their life together through different stages - and despite the boredom that this would normally entail, Eric Bana and Rachael McAdams' chemistry together is so good, that you are rooting for them until the end, be it their marital problems or even having kids.

Overall then, not a classic - but then not a total waste of time, I found myself being reminded of The Curious Benjamin Button towards the end, and this is good company to be in, even if it does pale in comparison to said film. If you need to relax and don't Doc Brown to try explain the intricaties of time travel to you, you could do a lot worse than watch this film.

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