Review – Elizabethtown

Scientists warned us that this could happen, but most of us never really believed that Cameron Crowe would ever actually manage to reach Critical Quirk. And yet apparently that day is upon us. After causing a financial catastrophe at a shoe company, a moody young man (Orlando Bloom) heads to the hinterland of Kentucky to make funeral arrangements for his father. There he meets an endless supply of local eccentrics and finds himself distracted from his task by an idiosyncratic flight attendant (Kirsten Dunst). And if I'm using words such as “idiosyncratic,” that’s a good sign that I’ve run out of synonyms for “quirky.” Which is really all I have to say about this. The whole thing’s so self-consciously clever that it’s downright embarrassing to watch. See if desperate