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When a character five minutes into this film declares "Sand is overrated" I knew I was going to dislike this film.

Here we have Jim Carrey playing his "look at me, I'm moody!" character. His girlfriend is Kate Winslet and he has enough money to spend on the latest scientific operations. And all he does is moan and moan and moan some more about how awful his life is. GET SOME THERAPY YOU SAD SAD PERSON. GAIN SOME DAMN PERSPECTIVE. Don't bore me with your endless, mindless ramblings of self-pitiment. My God is there a bigger, more self-obsessed wingebag in the history of cinema? I like Jim Carrey comedies (well some of them). I think he's a fine comedic actor and can be a good dramatic actor (as The Truman Show shows) but if he picks another role like this I think I will blacklist him from all future viewing.

This is exactly the type of film you expect when pretentious gits get together to make a movie. A film made by people completely detached from the human world and exist only to show people how smart they are. Well sorry this isn't smart. It's pretentious, mind-numbing tedium presented in a highly moronic fashion. When you make a film that is based on a highly juvenile premise of people erasing close ones from their memories please say SOMETHING about it. Though it is highly doubtful that the writer thought anything else than "That's cool" and "How smart am I?" while writing it.

As mentioned before Jim Carrey is in unbearably moody mode and really needs to lighten up. Kate Winslet is extremely good and is the only thing worth watching the film for, even if her character is a bit of a bitch at times. In fact nearly everyone in this film is a back-stabbing asshole, as I probably should have expected from the minds of such detached members of the human race. Elijah Wood's subplot (if you can call it a "sub" or a "plot") and character is completely unnecessary. It's there only to pad out the cast list and show how the writer can write films with multiple characters (poorly). Wood, as an actor, is and always will be a smeghead. Why people continue to hire him is beyond me. Kirsten Dunst - I can't remember a thing about her or her character. Mark Ruffalo - I think his character was a bit of an idiot. I'm pretty sure he annoyed me in some way. Tom Wilkinson does some good work but seems to be on auto pilot (he still out acts his co-stars).

The film is directed by MTV hack Michael Gondry who clearly thought shooting this film in a grimy, ugly handheld style would achieve respectability with critics (which seems to have work for the most part). But any viewer with an eye for anything known as good photography shall be blinded by the incompetence shown.

This film exists for people to drink cappuccino and discuss "Oh did you see the new Gondry? Oh it's art. Really really out there. Really provoking." Pretentious drivel like this needs to be stamped out and those responsible need to be shown proper films until they understand what "entertainment" "thought" and "emotions" mean.