Dr Jacques COULARDEAU A comedy of sorts, and yet a dream more than a real story. Why not? We have the right to dream, even about real life. A band of old German scientists who have found refuge in the US because they were Jewish, among whom Albert Einstein is the most prestigious, are enjoying the love that is nascent in Einstein's niece for a simple garage mechanic and they organize a prank to make him shine with the highest IQ possible, and since when you reach a certain level of intelligence nothing is impossible, those four men manage to make the young mathematician niece fall in love top over toes in all directions and she finally recognizes that love is probably more important in life than just mathematics and science and university and research. The rest is Jewish antics and humor about life and death, love and the unknowable, the mind, the spirit, the soul, the brain, or whatever is residing up there in the skull. Some say love is not always on time, and they are wrong because love is always on time for those who believe time does not exist, and they are numerous since time, you know, hours, minutes, seconds and weeks and months are nothing but a human intellectual construction on the basis of the experience of the duration of things that cannot be measured and is absolutely as regular as a clock that is speeding up going up and slowing down going down, or vice versa. And love is the compass that can keep you on the right road in the right direction towards the right destination that you may never reach because distance is like duration: it is unfathomable and infinite.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

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.

rustydog While the sparkling chemistry between Ryan and Robbins alone is reason enough to see this movie, the supporting cast (including Matthau, Fry, Shalub, Durning and the hilarious trio of Jacobi, Saks and Maher) is an additional plus. Matthau shines as Einstein, Fry is perfect as Ryan's clinical fiancé, and Shalub's line about Einstein's gonads is, as has been noted, one of the highlights of the film. The speech that Robbins delivers at his first appearance in public is sheer poetry. Kudos to the writers for handling this froth with wit and levity. I also thought that Keene Curtis was wonderful as Eisenhower. This might be considered something of a chick movie, but I think everyone will get a kick out of it. Eight very solid points.

phil-805 IQ is a wonderfully original romantic comedy that pits the greatest and deepest-thinking scientific minds of the 20th century as Cupid's helpers. The juxtaposition of heart and mind is the central theme of this light-hearted yet thoughtful movie. You don't quite know how to react because part of the time you are seeing great scientists do silly things to nurture budding love, but at other times, you hear them discuss some of the deepest puzzles of space/time of our age. The end result is a fun movie with surprises throughout. Walter Matthau is a perfect Einstein, Meg Ryan creates a quirky, scatter-brained mathematician, and Tim Robbins brings to life the contradictions of a poorly educated working man who is fascinated by science. All together, they create a farcical trip through love and science, mind and heart.