Disappointing and forgettable

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2004)

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is a sloppy mess of a movie which dumps sci-fi, romance, camp comedy, and mediocre drama into a Mulligan stew seasoned with intellectual grunge. The film spends most of its run time flashing to and fro between a romantically involved couple's happy days and a sort of lame white out job of their memories of each other. The upside to this flick is its solid cast and remarkable public and critical approval. The downside is it's an ill focused, pathos drenched mess with peripheral nonsense which detracts from the core theme making the "buy-in" difficult. Reminiscent of Kaufman's "Being John Malkovich" in its lunacy, this film proves once again that creativity is not necessarily a good thing. For Kaufman fans only. (C+)