Review of I.Q. (1994) by Bsh N — 22 Dec 2010

Maybe I'm being too generous with the rating...but I just love this movie! I've seen it so many times, but every time I see it I fall in love with it all over again. It's just a simple romantic comedy, with nothing huge or monumentous that happens. This movie *is* romantic. I love Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins, and Walter Mathau is so funny. The scientists make me laugh so much...I definitely recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's such a clean, good movie - and those are so rare now! I recommend it if you need to laugh, or if you're just lonely and need to *watch* a romance.

In this 1994 romantic comedy, Ed Walters (Robbins), an auto mechanic, falls in love with the beautiful, intellectual Catherine Boyd (Ryan) who comes to his auto shop. While attempting to see her again, he discovers something amazing - Catherine is Albert Einstein's (Matthau) niece and a brilliant mathematician in her own right.

Einstein and his colleagues take an instant liking to Walters and decide to play cupid between the two. Unfortunately, Catherine is engaged to a prominent research psychologist (the "rat man," as Godel calls him, because he hooks up electrodes to the private parts of rats).

Since Catherine is unable to see past Walters' less intellectual background, the group attempts to impress her by faking a scientific discovery ... only to find themselves wrapped up in a scientific conspiracy where they must lie even to President Eisenhower to keep up the charade.

Do not expect revelations, either in storytelling style or scientific knowledge, from this film, but you can expect to be entertained by the engaging scientific characters. The science discussed is reasonable, but is not the focus of the film.