Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"I.Q." is a simple comedy and light romance with a fine cast of old actors and younger stars of the day. Walter Matthau gives a humorous and warm portrayal of Albert Einstein. Einstein was known to have a sense of humor and wit that complimented his scientific genius. Here are some of his clever and funny quotes. "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." "Reality is merely an illusion, but a very persistent one." "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." It's too bad the screenwriters couldn't write in some of Einstein's quips in the script. At least, I didn't see or hear anything that might have been his. But, the situational humor and fun lines they put in work fine. And, Matthau is perfect as the physics genius in his last years. The time of the film would have been the early 1950s since Einstein died in 1955. But the coterie of cronies around him aren't historically placed by age. The script conveniently plucks them from their locations around the U.S. to be residing with Einstein in his New England home. These characters all add to the humor and fun of the film. Lou Jacobi plays Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian born and later American mathematician and logician. Gene Saks plays Boris Podolsky (1896-1966), Russian-born physicist who taught at the University of Cincinnati and then Xavier University in Ohio. Joseph Maher plays Nathan Liebknecht, a fictitious character possibly based on Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), a German Socialist. Meg Ryan is Catherine Boyd, Einstein's niece, who seems to have inherited his genes for genius. Her nose is buried in mathematical theories, and she plays a sometimes flighty character very well. Catherine is engaged to an English psychologist researcher, James Moreland. Stephen Fry plays the stuffy, snobby Moreland very well. Tim Robbins has a blue-collar job. He works in a service garage, but besides his brawn, he's something of an automotive engineering whiz without a diploma. His Ed Walters falls for Catherine the first time he sees her. The rest of the story is how Uncle Albert and his cohorts can manipulate things so that Ed can replace James as a match for Catherine. It's not a complex plot or very deep story. But it's fun and innocent. And, worth the time just to watch Matthau bring his wry manner to Albert Einstein's witty and personable character. Einstein wasn't just a physics genius and witty professor. He also was a provocative thinker who challenged modernist trends. Here are a few of his pearls of profound wisdom. "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

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.

It was a doubly interesting experience. For some reason the greatest scientific mind of the 20th Century had never been the central figure in a movie*. The closest I can think of as films with Einstein in them are CHAMPAIGN FOR CAESAR, where (like a "deus ex ma-china") the great man is heard clarifying a point on a radio quiz show, so that Ronald Colman is proved to have given the correct answer after all, and in BULLSHOT where the great Albert is one of a dozen leading physicists and scientists who are drugged with cannabis by the villain, intent on stealing some machines of theirs. It is notable that in those two cases, and in IQ, we are dealing with comedies. So far nobody has tried to do a serious film about the life of Einstein, like John Huston's attempt to do one on FREUD with Montgomery Cliff. I guess it is just too hard to get the world of mathematical equations or the secrets of electro-magnetic field theory into exciting dialog. But then, only three years ago Russell Crowe and Christopher Plummer did A BEAUTIFUL MIND. Maybe nobody really has tried.(*Subsequently, after writing this, I remembered the successful comedy YOUNG EINSTEIN with Yahoo Serious about ten years ago. But that is an exception and it was a spoof.)The other surprise was the actor playing the great Albert. It was Walter Matthau, here taking time away from the series of films he did with Jack Lemmon in that last decade of their careers. Matthau was a highly capable and gifted character actor, in both comedy and drama, but normally his comic personas were variants of his "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich from THE FORTUNE COOKIE. They were connivers and gonifs. Later they would shed their criminal propensities because we had grown to like them, but they remained grumpy types. But his Albert Einstein happens to be genuinely sweet. More like his Kotch than like Willie Clarke.He plays Albert as good old uncle Albert. It seems that Matthau's Einstein is living in Princeton with his niece Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan), and she is seeing a stuffy professor named James Morland (Stephen Fry). But Fry's car needs repairs, and they take it to the auto shop where Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) works. Robbins falls for Ryan, who is attracted to him - but finds that he lacks the mental equipment that she admires. Good old uncle Albert, aided by his three friends (Lou Jacobi, Joseph Maher, and Gene Saks) decide to give their assistance to Robbins and make him an apparently unrecognized physics genius. This will open the doors of romance between him and Ryan, provided Ryan is impressed and Fry does not spoil things (as he hopes to do).The atmosphere is sweet, as when Matthau and his chums rig up a super physics quiz that they help Robbins cheat on (by switching the positions of their bodies). The plot eventually leads to the outright lie that the brilliant Robbins has constructed an atomic powered rocket ship - which brings in the interests of the nation in the figure of President Eisenhower (Keene Curtis).It was a charming comedy, and an interesting stretch for Matthau in that he was not as hyper as normal, but far more subdued.

This is a really fun, breezy, light hearted romantic comedy. You cannot go wrong with Meg Ryan's cute perkiness combined with Albert Einstein's genius. Normally, I'm not a fan of completely fabricated fictional tales about actual people, now deceased and not able to defend themselves, but I think the late Einstein might himself have gotten a chuckle out of this one.It's the 1950's...Princeton, New Jersey in the spring. The story revolves around a pretty, young, scatter brained mathematician, Catherine (Meg Ryan), who is all set to marry a stuffy jerk, a behavioral researcher named James, merely because he has the brains she's looking for in the father of her future children. However, it's love at first sight when her car breaks and she meets an auto mechanic named Ed (Tim Robbins). As she doesn't think Ed is intelligent enough, her uncle, none other than Albert Einstein, plays match maker, assisted in his endeavors by three mischievous cronies, all theoretical physicists. Uncle Albert must make Ed appear suitably smart, so concocts a charade portraying him as a physicist...naturally with amusing results.Walter Matthau is his usual hilarious self, and pulls off the character of Einstein quite effectively. With his three professorial buddies, Kurt, Nathan, and Boris, a lot of laughs ensue. The real Einstein had a genuine human side and this film just takes it one (outrageous) step further. If you suspend all logic, you can almost imagine this silly story happening!It might not be rocket science (despite its main character) but it is a wonderful sweet, refreshing movie. One of the best of the comedy romance genre.