this be a really fun and breezy and light hearted romantic comedy . you can not go wrong with meg ryan cute perkiness combine with albert einstein genius . normally and i be not a fan of completely fabricate fictional tale about actual people and now decease and not able to defend themselves and but i think the late einstein might himself have get a chuckle out of this one . it the 1950 . princeton and new jersey in the spring . the story revolve around a pretty and young and scatter brain mathematician and catherine ( meg ryan ) and who be all set to marry a stuffy jerk and a behavioral researcher name james and merely because he have the brain she look for in the father of her future child . however and it love at first sight when her car break and she meet an auto mechanic name ed ( tim robbins ) . a she doesn not think ed be intelligent enough and her uncle and none other than albert einstein and play match maker and assist in his endeavor by three mischievous crony and all theoretical physicist . uncle albert must make ed appear suitably smart and so concoct a charade portray him a a physicist . naturally with amusing result . walter matthau be his usual hilarious self and and pull off the character of einstein quite effectively . with his three professorial buddy and kurt and nathan and and boris and a lot of laugh ensue . the real einstein have a genuine human side and this film just take it one ( outrageous ) step far . if you suspend all logic and you can almost imagine this silly story happen . it might not be rocket science ( despite it main character ) but it be a wonderful sweet and refreshing movie . one of the best of the comedy romance genre .