The Diva and her guy went to see this on opening night and did a review for their good friend cshel at Lafayette Online. Here's a copy of the review for your perusal 
The Time Traveler's Wife
Rating: ** stars out of *****
The Time Traveler's Wife is a movie adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's book of the same title. The movie centers around the relationship of Henry, a time traveller, (played by Eric Bana) and his artist wife, Clare (Rachel McAdams).
The plot was disjointed and not developed. For example, in the beginning of the movie, we are introduced to Henry's relationship with his mom and also his newfound awareness of his 'ability' to time travel - though his mom plays an integral part in his life, we don't hear enough about it through the movie or see her except for two brief scenes. On the other hand, immediately after telling himself (Henry is both age 6 and 20 in the same scene) that he is a time traveler, Henry materializes as an adult, naked in a library, moments later, meeting his lifelong love. Knowing she's been waiting for this moment for years, we have to wonder why she is so startled and unprepared!
Though the romantic relationship between Clare and Henry is the main plot, you never know if the chicken or the egg comes first. The first time they meet (in Clare's life), she is 6 and he is an old naked guy in a bush. This just screams creepy pedophile. Was that the intent? The sad part of this is that we realize very early that Clare has lived her whole life dreaming about Henry and has been in love with him since around age 8.
Additionally, the back and forth time travelling attempts to develop this relationship, but results in a boomerang effect leaving the guy sitting next to us saying 'huh, what? I don't get it' a lot - and the girl on the other side gave up and started talking on her cell phone.
Same guy - when Eric Bana bares his butt says "Ohh, a$$!" only to pause and then clue in "WAIT, that's a DUDE!"....
With that said, the friendship between Gomez (Ron Livingston) and Henry becomes one of the most touching subplots of the movie - and we come to admire the maturity and sacrifice of Clare and Henry's relationship as it develops and she becomes both creative and patient. What's missing is the opportunity to escape into the plot and buy into the romance. We've both seen McAdams and Bana play deeper characters and bring more to the screen than they were given the opportunity to with this flat script. So sad.
Overall:
She says: Too short, too undeveloped, didn't cry nearly enough, but atleast Eric Bana has a cute butt!
He says: She can drag me to it, and I'll survive but it would have been nice to see more of Rachel McAdams
~The Diva & her Guy
