Wasted Time...

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2014)

None of the romantic situations seem at all genuine Give a stranger at a gallery your full address? Sure! Ask your girlfriend to eat dinner alone so you can dine with a guy you've already turned down once? Why not? Propose marriage to your girlfriend when she's half-asleep, even though you could easily wait until morning? Great idea!
None of this would ever happen. I know it's a romantic comedy and these things are built on whimsy - but it's extremely difficult to identify with likable characters if you feel like nothing they ever experience would occur outside of a movie It's too cosily scripted from minute one, and fantasy should entail dreaming about things that could actually happen, not imagining a whole new alternate reality!
If there are flaws with the romance, then it makes the family stuff harder to take seriously, too, since the problem is with the root, and not the branch... The time travel was the easiest element of the movie for me to accept, it was all the stuff around it that I found hard to credit!