This movie is so bad that one prominent film critic recently stormed
out of the press preview in Singapore in a huff — a sight
we've rarely seen. And when the film was shown in film festivals
like Toronto last year, writer-director Cameron Crowe (Jerry
Maguire, Almost Famous) famously asked reporters and
critics how he should re-cut the film — a gesture that seems
to suggest his own lack of confidence in the material.

The problem with Elizabethtown is that it tries to do
and say too much. There are three plots in it competing to be the
main plot. Orlando Bloom is a young executive whose career has failed
spectacularly. To make matters worse, his father has just died and
he has to go to Elizabethtown to collect the body. En route there,
he meets an obnoxiously cheerful air-stewardess Kirsten Dunst who
urges him to go on a road trip to discover Middle America.

So what does this movie want to be? A screwball romance? A road
movie? Or a tragedy about a man coming to terms with his life and
his father's death? It tries to be all three and succeeds at none.
If you can make sense of it, give us a call.