Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Elvanderw 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.

James Hitchcock I originally associated Fred Schepisi with true-life crime dramas like "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and "A Cry in the Dark", both set in his native Australia, but he is clearly a versatile director who has also turned his hand to comedy. "I.Q." has a lot in common with "Roxanne", probably Schepisi's best-known comic movie made several years earlier. Both films are romantic comedies based upon a love- triangle with two men in love with the same woman. In both films the woman is a highly-educated intellectual, and in both one of the men tries to impress her by pretending to be more intelligent or more educated than he really is. In "Roxanne" the woman is an astronomer; here she is a mathematician, but we learn that her father was an astronomer and the appearance of comet plays an important role in both films. The action takes place in New Jersey in the 1950s. If you want to be precise, both Dwight D. Eisenhower (as President) and Albert Einstein appear as characters, so the action must take place between Ike's inauguration in January 1953 and Einstein's death in April 1955, but as the film takes a number of liberties with historical fact that sort of precision is not really necessary. (For example, Einstein is seen listening to Little Richard's "Tutti-Frutti," which was not released until after his death). The heroine is Catherine Boyd, Albert Einstein's (fictional) niece, who has obviously inherited her famous uncle's brains as she is a brilliant mathematics student at Princeton University. Her two admirers are Ed Walters, a garage mechanic, and her British fiancé James Moreland, a university lecturer in experimental psychology. As is normal in two-boys-in-love-with-one-girl type rom-coms, the two have very different personalities. Although Ed has good general intelligence he has little formal education, but is amiable and caring. James is academically brilliant but a pompous stuffed shirt who treats Catherine with patronising condescension, believing that her main function in life will be as mother to the brilliant children to be fathered by himself. Catherine's uncle Albert realises that James, for all his academic prowess, is a complete prat, so tries to persuade her that Ed would be much better suited to her. To this end he and three friends, the scientists and mathematicians Nathan Liebknecht, Kurt Gödel and Boris Podolsky, come up with a scheme to convince Catherine (and the world) that Ed is a scientific genius. The weak link as far as the acting was concerned was, in my view, Tim Robbins as Ed; l felt that the role needed someone more relaxed, less serious and younger. (The age difference between Robbins and Meg Ryan is only three years, but here it seems much greater). According to Schepisi, Robbins was unhappy with the way his character was written, feeling that nobody would like a man "who has a woman fall in love with him because of a lie", and it seems as if some of this uneasiness comes across in his performance. (There is a difference in this respect between "IQ" and "Roxanne", where it is the unsympathetic, and ultimately unsuccessful, suitor, who pretends to a level of education which he does not possess). Ryan herself, however, makes a sweet and appealing heroine. In the nineties she (along with Julia Roberts) was Hollywood's official Queen of Romantic Comedy and here she achieves the feat (as did Daryl Hannah in "Roxanne") of playing a woman who is not only attractive but also educated and intelligent without resorting to that old "bespectacled bluestocking" cliché. Walter Matthau was one of those actors who never seemed to retire, or even to fade away, but carried on taking leading roles in major feature films throughout the eighth, and final, decade of his life. Perhaps his best-known role from this period was in "Grumpy Old Men", but his Albert Einstein, portrayed as loveably mischievous, kindly and fun-loving, is far from being a grumpy old man. His three colleagues are all played in much the same way, and as being around the same age as Einstein, although historically this is not accurate. (Kurt Gödel, for example, would only have been in his forties at the time the film is set; Lou Jacobi, who plays him here, was 81 when the film was made). I wouldn't rate "IQ" quite as highly as "Roxanne", one of the best romantic comedies of the eighties, although with a stronger male lead it might have fall into the same category. Steve Martin, the male lead in "Roxanne", is one of that film's great strengths, much better than Tim Robbins is here, although on the feminine side Meg Ryan is just as good as Daryl Hannah. Overall, however, "IQ" is a highly enjoyable comedy, warm and human with its central theme that life is as much about the heart as about the mind. 7/10

ironhorse_iv I.Q was the Big Bang Theory of the 1990's. This romantic comedy directed by Fred Schepisi is a very charming film. The film is about friendly garage mechanic, Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) who is trying to impress a smart Princeton University mathematician, Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) by acting a newly discovery genius with some help with Catherine's Uncle, Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) and his buddies, fellow scientists Nathan Liebknecht (Joseph Maher), Kurt Gödel (Lou Jacobi), and Boris Podolsky (Gene Saks). The casting for Albert Einstein's friends almost were originally going to be Peter Ustinov, Barry Humphries and John Cleese. No matter who was cast, they see Edward as someone who would be better suited for Catherine, rather than her stiff and fussy English fiancé, experimental psychology professor James Moreland (Stephen Fry). Things get heat up, when the science community heard about this 'wunderkind' genius work on Cold Fusion power rockets, and seek Edward to help the American take back, the space race from the Russians. I have to say, everybody is just charming. Tim Robbins is a fine actor who is believable, but he was a bit difficult during filming I heard. He said in the '90s nobody would like a character who has a woman fall in love with him because of a lie. That's the whole premise of the film. In my opinion, I didn't mind it, but I think Tim Robbins was right, because not a lot of people end up going to see this movie. Meg Ryan is a hot smart woman who looks wonderful in the poodle skirts. She looks really young in this role. Stephen Fry was pretty good, and at less, the filmmakers didn't make his character too unlikable. Last, I have to say Walter Matthau fit the part. He did a great job to the point that it seem like Albert Einstein was playing himself. For dramatic reasons, I.Q. fictionalizes the lives of certain real people. Albert Einstein did not have a niece by the name of Catherine Boyd. Kurt Gödel was famously shy and reclusive, so he probably wouldn't be hanging out with Einstein and Boris Podolsky. I like how the movie didn't play it safe, by over explaining the calculations of the physics theories. If you don't get the jokes. It's alright. I didn't get some of the things, they were saying, too. Plus, I study physics before, coming into this film. I love to do my research, and I think I learn a lot from this film. I never heard of Hamiltonians, iambic pentameter, zeno paradox and others. The odd humor might leave some people scratching their heads, but overall, most of it was pretty simple to understand. The comedy works as well. I love the debate scene about if time exist or not. The whole I.Q test was funny, but a bit unrealistic. The Spike Jones music scene was pretty odd. The Marlon Brando impression was great. By the way, people, the impression was from 1953's Wild Ones and 1954's On the Waterfront, not 1972's the Godfather. I love the movie soundtrack very much from Jerry Goldsmith. The violin melody of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star was amazing to hear. Other songs heard was the Alphabet song, and some classical music from Wolfgang Mozart, and Joseph Haydn. Some critics didn't find the movie great, because Einstein in their eyes seem too silly or dumb. I doubt Einstein was such a hard head scientist. Einstein reportedly was playful and fond of jokes that could be seen by some as childish, but in the movie, he was indeed sound smart with all the terminology. I love how they got away with the PG rating with all the sexual innuendos, down speaks, and euphemism. There was a lot of dark humor as well like example, the man stuck in a box without a sense of time. Minus, the historic accuracies, this film is fun to watch. This romantic comedy is full of wahoo!

vhs1999 I have just hired I.Q out from my video ezy store this week and i have to say it was the most original piece of work i have seen in 5 years. It has its funny moments as well i did like meg ryan but unfortunately Meg Ryan always plays that same sort of part so she did well but its time for a change of role for her. Tim Robbins of course this is only the second movie i have seen him in so he to me is an OK actor IMO he is a good B grade actor to me. As for Walter matthau he to me was the star of the show and even though he has passed on he will always be an A grade star in my books. This is good but at times be a bit silly and most of all repeat itself but as like i said it was original and funny in parts. So what are waiting for have some fun rent it out.