Entertaining movie, Good premise! A host of corny/cliche' moments. Excellent secondary characters.

Rating: 8/10 (6 September 2014)

Upon watching this movie I wanted to dock the s__t out of it for it's corny/cliche moments, so much so that It tricked me into disliking this movie when in fact I was thoroughly entertained.The whole going back in time premise is a fun one for me, especially in this context where the central character has the ability to do so and it's just their secret. I would be cool with this being a genre type premise, which there have been a handful of movies along these lines and I typically enjoy them. This time they did it was a romance theme, so I guess corny and cliche' goes with the territory.
It has an overabundance of awesome secondary characters as in everyone of them. Which kinda gives me reason to believe that this was entirely/originally a well written story, as in limited cliche' moments that got altered a bit in order to get the approval to be made. Probably went something like this; we're going to need a big name, or up in comer actress for Tim's love interest. So they bring in Rachel McAdams, who is, don't get me wrong a great actress, but holy s__t she doesn't belong in this movie. In conjunction with that the studio likely meddled with the more central story of Tim and Mary, clicheing it up for mass production, thus leaving it surrounded by a record breaking level of awesome secondary characters.The dad, Harry, uncle, Tim's two friends, Mary's friend. I really enjoyed the scene with Tim's uncle, where he tells him that the best day of his life was when Tim's dad said that he loved him at the wedding, so the news of his dad having cancer is probably the worst. It was the manor of the uncle that was portrayed throughout that puts that moment into context. Tim is kind of a mixed bag for me. The guy did a good job as an actor, it was the writing for his character which gave me mixed feelings as to whether or not I liked the guy. He kind of comes across as a bit pompous.
On a deeply philosophical note, just be sure to live each day as though it's your last...I can't believe they left us of on such a mundane note. I feel like an abandoned orphan after that.
Oh we'll, had enough good points to be worth the watch.