The Time Traveler’s Wife, A Guys View

I went into The Time Traveler’s Wife with absolutely no prior knowledge of what the movie was about (other than what’s in the title, obviously).  Time travel is something that always interests me (“Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?”) so I was excited to see how this one would play out because, honestly, chick flick plus time travel doesn’t seem like a winning combination.  For Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams though, it was.

Henry (Eric Bana) is a time traveler.  He has no control over it.  He can be there one second and the next he disappears to an unknown time for an unknown amount of time.  He takes nothing with him, only his body travels.  His travels can last anywhere from a few seconds to weeks at a time.  Claire (Rachel McAdams) plays (you guessed it) the wife.  Though they are near the same age, she initially meets Henry for the first time when she is six years old, and he appears in her backyard in his 40′s.  They later meet (what appears to be during their 20′s) but Henry does not know her because he has not met her yet, even though she’s known him almost her whole life.

The love story going on during the first half is a little dry and sappy, and the time travel can be a bit confusing to anybody not familiar with it (any LOST fans?) but it’s basically only there to set up the conflicts that arise during the second half of the film.

The Time Traveler’s Wife kept me guessing all the way through.  Since it is a story of time travel, you find out the ending about an hour into the film and from there on it’s just an investigation as to how and when that ending is actually going to happen.  I enjoyed the film enough to watch it again if I had the chance, but now that 24 hours have passed, I can honestly say that I have not stopped thinking about the story of the movie.  The Time Traveler’s Wife may not be a cinema classic, but the story is deep enough and planned out well enough that it keeps your mind racing even after seeing it.

Guys Summery: If you and your lady friend are going to see a chick flick, this is one that you want to see.  It is a bit sappy in the start, but did I mention it has TIME TRAVEL?!