Deeper than the average romantic comedy

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2013)

Curtis goes out with a bang with this highly witty creation. His usual formula remains well intact - middle class families, personality winning out over good looks, vulnerable friend or relative, slightly bumbling delivery, weddings, funerals and several laugh out loud moments,
I initially thought the time travel bit, being the key to the movie, would be the bit that disappointed me, but it didn't. A better description, which no other review I have spotted mentioned, is that it is as though the soul or the mind transports back in time, into the body that was there already - hence why he cannot change history (he could though, just not history he wasn't alive to see). The flaw in this argument is that the body in the past seems to suddenly move into a cupboard, but this is a flaw in the script, not in his concept of how the time travel bit is meant to work.
The only bit that didn't sit easy was the way it came across that he was stalking or manipulating the women to ensure they melted into his arms. Overhear a friend talking, go back in time, then pretend you are interested in the same thing. The whole resulting relationship would be based on a lie, which didn't sit easy.
There were two saving graces to this. One, is that the hero was portrayed as fundamentally decent and respectable, despite the above time travel voyeurism. Two, is that the resulting relationship originally resulted from a meeting not involving time travel - a literal blind date. He was thus only correcting what he had inadvertently messed up in the first place.
All in all, a great movie, with some great philosophical messages relevant even to those of us without a quantum engine built into our bodies. Watch it. Because there won't be another one - unless Curtis himself goes back in time and changes his mind.