| I.Q. | | Cast : | Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau | | Director : | Fred Schepisi | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 25, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | August 09, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | "I.Q.", on dvd | Content
 | LOVED!!! LOVEDLOVEDLOVEDLOVED! Witty, charming, intellegent, sharp. Highly recommend, not only for adults, but younger people, too. You totally forget that it's Walter M. in the lead. Every character was well written, and well acted. Wish there were more flicks like this! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 26, 2005 | | Summary | A movie for those lazy nights cuddled together with a loved one... | Content
| I.Q. is a pleasant romantic comedy with a twist - the uncle of the young woman the story is about is none other than the great genius Albert Einstein (played brilliantly by the late great Walter Matthau).
Set in the late fifties, the story begins when Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) and her fiancée James (Stephen Fry) experience car trouble while riding around in his MG, and seek assistance at a garage. The garage mechanic, Ed Walters (Tim Robbins), sees Catherine and falls hopelessly in love with her. Of course, Ed's aspirations seem to be hopeless. Ed is a very good car mechanic but has no formal college education. But in the spirit of all romantic comedies, Ed feels that the relationship has a chance if he can only meet her and spend some time with her.
When she accidentally leaves her pocket watch at the gas station, he seizes the opportunity to try and see her again by personally returning the watch. Imagine his surprise, when he knocks on the door and Albert Einstein answers.
Surprisingly, Ed and Professor Einstein hit it off immediately. Ed is no scientific genius, but he understands human nature and the importance of having fun in life, two things that Einstein feels are lacking in his niece's life, which has been largely based on trying to emulate her uncle. Einstein is getting on in years and wants to make sure that she is happy and will be looked after properly. When Ed expresses the depth of his feeling, Einstein vows to help set things up. Einstein and his physicist friends -who also dote on Catherine-, decide to try and set Ed and Catherine up as a favor to both of them. It turns out that the car mechanic pretends to be an amateur physicist to impress Meg Ryan. Ed -allegedly- develops a process to use cold fusion to power a spacecraft, which during the cold war and the space-race was extremely important. However, this process didn't exist, Catherine finds out that Ed is a fraud and Ed realizes that he must level with her if they are ever to have a true relationship. The clever and romantic ways that these issues are resolved by Einstein and his cronies and by Ed and Catherine themselves make up the remainder of the story.
The highlight of I.Q. has to be the performance of Walter Matthau as Einstein. He has created an original character that seems totally different from the kind of roles he always played with Jack Lemmon.
Ed and Catherine are engaging as the young lovers and give us good on-screen chemistry, like they were meant for each other.
While this film is by nature light and predictable, you will find it quite enjoyable entertainment.
One of my favorite lines from the movie is in a dialogue between Albert Einstein and Tim Robbins' character Ed. They are discussing how to get Catherine to go out with Ed since Catherine will only go out with intellectual types.
Einstein: "The problem is she would never go out with a guy like you."
Ed: "Well that's easy. Lend me your brain for a while."
Einstein: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Ed: "Now what are the odds of that happening?"
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| Rating | | | Date | March 31, 2005 | | Summary | I never get tired of watching it. | Content
| This movie will grow on you if you like the sweet romantic comedy.
The cast is great. Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) the Garage Mechanic falls in love at first sight of Catherine(Meg Ryan) when she appears at his Gas Station with a failing car with her pretentious fiance James Mooreland (Stephen Fry). Ed decides to go ask her out and appears at her home and knocks on the door. The door opens and there is Albert Einstein(Walter Matthau) "You're Albert Einstien!" "Zank you" and thus begins the plot to break up the engagment and bring Ed and Catherine together.
The subcharacters are great! Especially Einstein's pals played by Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks, and Joseph Maher. "Three of the greatest minds and together they can't change a light bulb."
All in all a great warm funny film! Matthau again has to mentioned as his performance was brilliant. He should have been nominated IMHO. You can't go wrong with this one. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 20, 2005 | | Summary | Cute, but not too much replay value... | Content
| IQ is a cute romantic comedy... featuring Einstein... It's a little offbeat sometimes (i.e. Catherine's (Meg Ryan) fiancee and his work) and it drags on slowly during some parts, but overall it's a cute movie. Meg Ryan has her classic cute, short blonde hair cut and, as she is supposed to be related to Einstein, their hairdos match. Tim Robbins as Ed Walters is very sweet in this movie, struck by Catherine's beauty the moment he sees her, we get a bit of that "love at first sight" hollywood fun, which is the main point of this movie... as Einstein gets into... I said it was quirky!
Truly, watching Walter Matthau as Albert Einstein is one of the reasons I watch this movie if I see it on on TV. He really was a comedic genius.
I don't own this movie, they play it enough on TV, and it doesn't have that constant reply value that I look for when I spend my money a DVD. But it is a cute movie to watch a few times, I'll give it that. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 10, 2005 | | Summary | Lightweight but funny | Content
| Walter Matthau, as Einstein, easily steals the show as he tries to persuade his niece to ditch the brilliant, boring, scientific nerd she's engaged to and follow her heart, which is tugging in the direction of the local auto mechanic, who has taken one look at her over the hood of her disabled car and fallen ridiculously and madly in love.
Even Meg Ryan has trouble with the costuming of the 1950's era: cinched waists, twin sets, white gloves (!!), etc., and I got the feeling she was just going thru the motions of playing Meg Ryan, as only she can.
Cute, but very lightweight.
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