not much to say...

Rating: 6/10 (9 July 2005)

Since the masses usually go to great lengths to over-analyze such manufactured, Hollywood-ized quirkiness as found in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," I will spare everyone my long dissertation on the film (since I don't have one), and just say that, behind its clever casting (Jim Carrey, like Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation," is playing a facsimile of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman), deliberately disjointed structure (it is a film about memory loss, after all), and emotional moments, the film is largely an exercise in overly self-conscious artistry. Light, diverting entertainment at best--nothing earth-shattering.