I will issue a spoiler warning - but truly, nothing can spoil this movie. It comes pre-ruined.A "time machine" is able to identify people and pin-point locations and dates via vague references - all via voice command, and all while being a cheap recliner wrapped in Christmas lights. That would place this object in the category of "magical" time travel mechanics, which in and of itself is not out of bounds. The absurdity of it all is simply "Take me to before Cody dropped out of school." How would the object know who Cody was, or when she dropped out of school? And that's just ONE of the many faulty time travel concepts present in the story.There is so much absurdity in this movie, there's no way to fit a review into 1000 words. The basic fact is, these writers are terrible and the actors did them no favors. It's wall-to-wall paradoxes wrapped in a bunch of cheesy love story clichés, ending with the "Oh it was meant to be" serendipity of the two destined lovers randomly ending up on the same bus together, leaving town.

Art Frankel (Jay Baruchel) arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.This is a weird time travel story, that largely avoids the fun paradox issues, and comes across something like "Butterfly Effect" (but less dramatic). I wanted to like it, and did for a while, but it became more stale as the time ticked on.I appreciate the attempt an found it to be rather clever in a number of ways, but never never enough... there was nothing in this film that made it really stand out and be worth recommending to another viewer.

Fetching Cody is a movie about addictions in Vancouver. The act and the development of addictions is very subtle in this movie. There are no scenes of needles being shot into veins, no vomiting nor convulsions. Instead it is a love story of two individuals who live in downtown Vancouver and whom seem to gradually become addicted to illegal substances.A situation starts to occur, which instigates Art to want to change things in order to better the life of his girlfriend, Cody. This leads to an unconventional journey into the past.The lead character, Art is a very young man, whom camouflages his addictions well. He seems like a very likable individual. There does not seem to be many problems that arise in the lives of Art and Cody - however Art discovers that a lot of Cody's problems resided in her unique past. Uncovering one problem seems to have led to the uncovering of another problem, and this seems to ripple backwards into her childhood - revealing all kinds of reasons why Cody would resort to addictions, in order to numb her own personal pain.Fetching Cody is a pretty good movie, because it does not throw the viewer into a no-mans-land of disgust and repulsion. However, the addictions that both Art and Cody have seem to resemble, personal sadness and personal alienation.I believe that if both Cody and Art were versed in understanding mental health and addictions versus inarticulate in these matters - that they both would have been able to have solved and dissolved personal pain in a much more effective and cathartic way. Since the viewer only has the background of Cody, I would say that, when she met Art she was already a trauma victim floating above her own pain - never talking about it, but act it out by prostitution and street substance use.

Our hero Art is appalled at what has happened to his street girlfriend. When the unlikely opportunity to muck about in the past presents itself, he embarks on a search to find just the right moment where he can apply a tourniquet to her bleeding life.Nothing seems to work, until Art finally faces up to his own role in her demise.This story is told with charming devices - a magical beat-down easy chair garnished with Christmas lights, a street prophet that could be right out of "The Fisher King," and an easy humor that coaxes out the darkness of the story and its players with sharp relief.