A time travel movie without the fun of time travel

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2020)

When I watch time travel movies I hope to be stuck in a story full of paradoxes and that it is difficult to rationally follow the film due to the constant change of time flow, About Time by Richard Curtis is a time travel movie, but the conductive thread of the story is the romance between two young Britons, Tim fulfills his whims thanks to his ability to travel through time by locking himself in a closet and closing his fists as if he were going to hit someone, on one occasion Doc Brown said that if they were going to travel in time they would do it in style, traveling in a Delorean, obviously About Time is not very interested in the science that time travel, temporary fluctuations or paradoxes entail, the most serious thing that caused Time travel in Tim was that his children to change genetically. I was waiting for the moment when the film reached another level of depth, however it always remains on the same level, in fact I realized that one of the big problems of the movie are the female characters, Mary looks like a blank board, no It is a character that undergoes major changes throughout the film, it is a device of the script but it does not work like a real character, the same goes for Tim's mother, however Tim's sister is a very well explored character and she It gives the necessary dramatic touch that the film lacked so much.
At the end of the movie Tim says goodbye to his father, but can really continue to visit him without breaking the rules, Tim's father tells him specifically that he cannot travel before the baby is conceived , so if he travels during pregnancy he would not pass nothing, I'm probably wrong with this, but it is undeniable that at the beginning of the movie it is clear that it is impossible to return to the present once you have returned to the past, however this law is constantly breaking in the film without any reason.