El genio del amor

I saw "I.Q." again today, and now realize how good a movie it is. In fact, I boosted my rating. Since my first viewing, I have seen a couple of biographical movies about Albert Einstein, and that gave me a framework for better appreciating some of the humor. I own the DVD and, while it has no extras, it is a very nice presentation, and the sound is Dolby 5.1. There was a scene with birds twittering in the surround speakers, thoroughly confusing my cat, Bullet.

Set in the 1950s, when Eisenhower was president, and both the US and Russia were in a race of sorts to explore space, Tim Robbins plays a mechanic who likes to read astronomy and science for fun. Meg Ryan plays a mathematician who isn't quite sure of herself, and Matthau plays Albert Einstein, her uncle. In a round-about way, Einstein and his fellow Physicists play matchmaker, and try to get Ryan and Robbins together. This is simply a wonderful romantic comedy with no swearing, no sex, and very little innuendo.