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But the reviews have been (humorously) merciless.
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(From Salon).I'm sure "The Time Traveler's Wife" -- its script was adapted by Bruce Joel Rubin, the man behind the 1990 superhit "Ghost" -- is supposed to be laden with metaphorical riches, holding deeper meanings about the elusiveness of love, about our expectations of what love means, about the way even those closest to us are in some ways unknowable. I made an attempt to read Niffenberger's book and failed, but I'm willing to believe that a novel that strikes a chord with so many readers offers some kind of romantic lushness. But the movie adaptation is a particularly inept piece of slick hokum; it doesn't even work as your garden-variety weepie
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(From the NY Times) You could say that “The Time Traveler’s Wife” is a science-fictiony romance about eternal love and all that sniffy, weepy stuff. Or you could think of it as a crazy story about a stalker who sweet-talks a little girl whom he later seduces when she’s a teenager only to then knock her up and emotionally, psychologically and spiritually knock her down again and again, as he hopscotches naked across the time-space continuum
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( From the LA Times) Out of sync in love and storytelling: An adaptation of the graceful romance hits the screen with an ungainly thud. Lack of chemistry is a big problem
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Yikes!