Alexander Pope is rolling over in his grave

Rating: 2/10 (12 August 2005)

I turned this movie off after it was apparent that the director was not ever going to bring this into focus or tidy up the mess he had made. By then, Joel was an undignified 3 ft tall and Clem was a Southern ho. One viewer spoke of the movie as if an intoxicating poem but whatever he read into it was purely coincidental as this movie did not divulge any such information as to why the couple broke up, for example, although we glimpse an argument where Joel apologizes for a well-deserved comment hurled at Clem. One of the worst parts about it was the fact that the audience knew pathetically little about their apparently 2 year relationship or the threads that weaved their hearts together in the first place nor the cracks their love fell through. And why on earth anyone would want to be soul mates with the impossibly dimwitted, arrogant and offensive Clem is beyond all capacity for understanding. Once the erasing of the memories begins, the movie leaps and skids off it's digital tracks as if pieced from the cutting room floor by a five year old.