Confident in its 'aesthetic overload'

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2010)

Exhausting and hilarious in the same way that 'I Heart Huckabees' was exhausting and hilarious, and resembling 'Eternal Sunshine' in its mix between naturalism and a liberated sense of visual surrealism, borrowing for the latter from a vast range of videogaming and comics culture, this is an inventive romantic comedy confident in its own 'aesthetic overload'. It's difficult to see how Wright wrote this without the editing stage already in mind â€“ like a lot of the invisible wipes in 'Pan's Labyrinth', it feels like almost every transition from one scene to the next here has been designed to draw our attention to its rhythmic wit and technical complexity, which brings with it an inevitably tiring effect as the film goes on (the fights become increasingly intrusive to the central romance), though if the facial muscles cannot accommodate any more laughter by the final third, they'll at least be in awe of the effort and sincerity of the film's makers.
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