I was a little wary about this film when I read in the review it involved time travel. I've never been a big fan of time travel as a plot element. I thought it might be interesting to see how Woody would do such a thing.
The story is of a young American couple traveling to Paris--Gil (Owen Wilson) and his fiance, Inez (Rachel McAdams). He is a screenwriter that loves Paris and wants to move there to work on his novel. Inez doesn't see the allure of Paris, and wants Gil to go back to Hollywood and make lots of money. She meets up with an old boyfriend and Gil wonders the streets until an old car drives by at midnight each night and takes him back to the 1920s where he meets up with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, and a host of other geniuses. Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) offers to read Gil's book and he falls for Pablo Picasso's girlfriend.
I have to say that I was not as taken with this film as the critics. I thought it was kind of boring. The best part of the film was seeing the scenes of Paris. It is quite a love letter to the city. It made me want to be there, but I wished I didn't have to watch the dull characters populating the film. The movie had very little humor. Like many Allen films, it was quite talky, but this one was talky in an irritating way. I guess you can tell it was not one of my favorites.
