The Dad, the Wardrobe and Dom.

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2014)

About Time sells itself as a time travel romantic comedy. It's more about relationships.
A relationship between father and son, brother and sister and two people who meet and get married. There is also some time travel involved.
Richard Curtis, writer and director has some form when it comes to time travel.
He wrote a critically acclaimed episode of Doctor Who in 2010.
Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) is a shy and awkward teenager especially when it comes to the ladies. On his 21st birthday, his father (Bill Nighy) unveils a family secret. The men in the family can travel back in time in their life stream.
Soon Tim embarks to London to become a lawyer. He resides with a rude playwright and when a date in the dark goes awry. Tim decides to use time travel.
Tim meets Mary (Rachel McAdams) and they establish a relationship.
The film is not a laugh out comedy. It is a mixture of romance, drama, melancholy with a few laughs.
There are the usual ingredients that you find in a Curtis film. The upper middle class with an eccentric family. A large house (by the seaside this time), musical interludes, a spiky and kookie young female character and romance with a transatlantic star.
The time travel element is new. To be fair to Curtis he has thought about cause and effect.
The best scenes are with Tim and his father. It is a genuine, warm relationship so you can guess that his father is going to bite the dust.
I never got any chemistry between Gleeson and MacAdams. Dom was very good in the early scenes when he is young and vulnerable but he could not sell it when his character got older and had children.
A good time waster but it had very little substance.