Spend some time with The Time Traveler's Wife

If you try and wrap your head around the whole time travel concept that is at the heart of The Time Traveler's Wife, don't bother as it will ruin your experience of watching the film if you try and be logical about it. Just sit back and let yourself immerse in this love story about how time travel brings together and threatens to tear about our central couple Henry (Eric Bana) and Clare (Rachel McAdams)

The Time Traveler's Wife is based on the novel of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger. It tells the story of Henry DeTamble who has a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel at a moments notice. He frequently visits his childhood and re-visits the death of this mother (Michelle Nolden) and visiting his wife Clare at various points in her childhood.

What I loved about the novel was the love story between Clare and Henry. Clare has been in love with Henry since she was six years-old and in one of the movie's cute scene a young Clare (Brooklynn Proulx) asks Henry if he is married, to which he answers that yes. Young Clare gets jealous and says she was hoping that Henry married her.

McAdams and Bana do offer great chemistry as Henry and Clare but they don't quite sizzle as the Henry and Clare do in the novel. But Adams is radiant and shines as Clare especially in scenes where she struggles to be a wife to a husband who disappears all the time.

Screenwriter Jeremy Leven and Bruce Joel Rubin have done a pretty good job in remaining faithful to the book. They got some of the key time travel sequences in there but cut some characters in the book like Henry's Korean neighbour Kimmy and the fact that Henry and Clare's friend Gomez (Ron Livingston) harbours an attraction to Clare.

Another highlight are the two young ladies who play Henry and Clare's daughter Alba at age 5 and 10 (sisters Tatum and Hailey McCann). Alba is also a time traveler like her dad and both sisters that play Alba are very cute in their scenes with Bana and McAdams.

Since it is a romanctic drama, tears are supposed to be shed and of course, as a romantic, I shed some tears and when you get to that part of the movie, you will cry too.