The Time Traveler's Wife

"In the end, the tasty nuggets of fun drown in all the soupy seriousness, but this time travel is sometimes an interesting ride."

"(It) comes across like a poor high-school stage version: sincere and kind of sweet, but endlessly clumsy."

"That the actors can pull off such Oprah-friendly, sci-fi-inflected sap and keep straight faces is the most fantastic thing about this loopy love story."

"Together (McAdams and Bana) achieve an intimacy which does its best to distract you from the flaws in the script, which is a mess."

"May not make a lick of sense, but it does make for fairly irresistible nonsense."

"I'd watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it."

"The warmth of the actors makes it surprisingly tender, considering the premise that is blatantly absurd. If you allow yourself to think for one moment of the paradoxes, contradictions and logical difficulties involved, you will be lost. The movie supports no objective thought."

"The Time Traveller's Wife may not be particularly intelligent but it delivers some loveable characters, who should deliver the warm fuzzies, if not tears."

"German-born director Robert Schwentke ("Flightplan") keep things moving briskly enough so that the leaps in time mostly obscure the leaps in logic."

"Competent and well-cast, but it crams too much into the runtime and loses the elegance of the novel."