1. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. And that's really all you need to know. Indie sensibility, quirky tone, low budget, dry humor, lots of charm.
2. In a word, cute.
3. Simple premise, which always helps. Man places classified ad seeking a time travel partner. Is he crazy or does he really have a time machine? That's the question our heroine faces as she starts to fall for him.
4. By the end of the movie, we were definitely rooting for the want-ad placer to really have invented a time machine. We didn't want him to be crazy.
5. As fans of the Fox sitcom New Girl, we are big fans of actor Jake Johnson. He's always interesting, often hilarious.
6. The two leads - Mark Duplass and Aubrey Plaza - aren't necessarily unattractive, but there's also not the typical sleekly good-looking actors you usually see in movies. They're a bit off kilter. Which is nice.
7. "Stormtroopers are blue collar."
8. In a way, we were more interested in the high-school-girlfriend B-story, not the time-travel A-story. Either way, we appreciate how both plotlines explore in different ways the same theme of going back and fixing old mistakes. That's something we can all appreciate.
9. Zither scene is a quirky Sundance-style touch. Who plays a zither? Characters in Sundance movies.
10. The film is based on a supposedly fake want ad place in something called the "Backwoods Home Magazine" in 1997, though it also apparently appeared in The Copenhagen Times. Weird.
11. It's true. Like Johnson's character says, you are only 21 once. And it's completely wasted on 21-year-olds. Which can lead to drinking and smoking and crying on go-carts, as is portrayed here.
12. The two cackling women sitting down the aisle from us certainly loved it.
13. Like we said. Cute.
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