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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

So four old geniuses try to get this auto mechanic hooked up with Einstein's niece. It bored me. Einstein in the movie made a comment about his moving at the speed of light. Impossible. General relativity shows it impossible for an object with any mass to move at the speed of light because at that speed it would have infinite weight. The writers didn't do their homework.I could have been taken in if there were more romance and less scientific gobbledygook. And the four old geniuses hanging around together all the time. Like an old man's club.Meg Ryan can do better than this.

What fun.!! Witty, funny and at the same time seriously purposeful. Einstein and his friends intention to have his niece experience some fun and laughs instead of unappreciative criticism from her fiancée, turns on them and with severe political consequences. After all the challenges and expectations, love prevails. Sometimes with a little help, but certainly with a purpose in mind. This is a funny and charming comedy, binding the imagination as to how this situation will deploy in the sought after result. Lots of laughs and expectation for the viewer. This movie is fun to watch and has no rudeness and obscenity. Makes for excellent family viewing.

Normally I don't write reviews for movies that have been around awhile and/or have other good reviews (and there are many for this movie), but when I saw that the overall rating for this movie was a 6 I decided that I had to step in and record my vote as well as give it some props here.I.Q. is a treat. A nice, cute movie. I'm not saying it's the greatest movie ever made or that it will change your world, but it's a joy.Walter Matthau, as always, is great. Tim Robbins once again shows why any movie he's in is worth watching. (Well, maybe not The Hudsucker Proxy, but that's not his fault!!) And Meg Ryan simply glows. She has never looked or acted better. As with any good movie, the supporting cast also shines. There's some familiar faces like Lou Jacobi and some different faces.It is also a very nice looking movie. Maybe the Director coming from Australia is a factor as sometimes it takes an outsider to see the beauty of New Jersey!! And that Princeton part of Joisey is certainly beautiful.You'll enjoy yourself with this movie.

While Fred Schepisi's "I.Q." doesn't really have any important qualities, it's still worth seeing. Walter Matthau plays Albert Einstein, trying to help mechanic Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) fall in love with Princeton mathematics doctoral candidate Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan). Probably the funniest scene is when Dr. Frizzyhead and friends (Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks and Joseph Maher) try to make Ed look like a scientist: he ends up looking like a French impressionist.Obviously little of the movie is historically accurate, but that's not the point. It's not intended as anything except a light comedy, quite the opposite of Robbins's most famous movie from 1994 (The Shawshank Redemption). A movie about Einstein's whole life would have to focus not only on his scientific achievements, but also his political activism, namely how he wrote a letter on behalf of the Scottsboro Nine and came out against nuclear weapons (it got to the point where the FBI kept a file on him).So anyway, this one is acceptable. Also starring Stephen Fry, Tony Shalhoub, Frank Whaley, Charles Durning and Keene Curtis.