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(1 - 39) of 39 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1   "Just the sight of Susan Sarandon tap dancing at a hilarious memorial for her character's dead husband made 'Elizabethtown' worth seeing for me."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker "Imagine Garden State by a better writer-director but with a worse editor and a loony studiohead who insisted on bringing the film in at two hours at any cost."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij A "Elizabethtown is an irresistibly comfy experience, like a wearing a thick sweater during the bitterest days of winter, or listening to an Abba CD at top volume."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "Even when Crowe trips with his plotlines and his pacings, at least he has a world of exciting, wonderful people to keep us wanting more."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius C- "The movie gives us nothing productive – save the unfortunate realization that Orlando Bloom can’t dance."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher B- "Sets an affable mood but is saddled with a slight and pointless story."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "A number of enchanting ideas and even a few self-contained luminous moments lurk deep within. Sadly, what surrounds them is half-baked and unsatisfying."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "Garden State without the matching clothes and wallpaper."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez A- "Wraps us up with a warmth not unlike a favorite sweater or comforter."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens B- "It's not just the main character who doesn't have a plan -- it's Crowe, too."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Two stories fighting for dominance - One full of the usual Crowe magic for romantic fantasy and the other bogged down in slapstick and middle class hick humor."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C- "None of it seems remotely real. Elizabethtown may be an actual place, but 'Elizabethtown' seems like nowhere on earth, because Crowe's script is so disjointed and tone-deaf."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "An endearing tale of a depressed young man who in the midst of career failure and a death in the family discovers the zest for life."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Cameron Crowe has such a great track record that Elizabethtown has to be considered a major disappointment."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Despite all his best intentions and last-minute editing, Cameron Crowe’s free-flow romanticism may have finally gotten the better of him."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick '1.5/4' "A jumble of potentially intriguing concepts that rarely gel and leave the sticky residue of bad impromptu theater"   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 6/10 "I was surprised to find myself strolling along the film’s basic plotline, not necessarily bowled over by what I was seeing, but not exactly disliking it either."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo D "Dunst and Bloom were far more believable in their widely watched comic book and fantasy films"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 4/10 "It’s easy to tell what Crowe’s intention was – remaking Smoke Signals while pretending he was David Gordon Green."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2.5/5 "Elizabethtown is rather like an OK mix tape - waves of poignance, whimsy, interrupted by a forced anomaly, & then charm in the next track."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.0/4.0 "... reeks of the same kind of emotional manipulation that sends the average (male) running screaming from the theater."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "Ultimately, Elizabethtown suffers from a severe identity crisis."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 4/4 "Happy tears, sad laughs, and when it ends, you genuinely miss the characters. Ain't that the best thing you could say about a movie?"   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 2.5/5 "Esta cinta ya la vimos...aún antes de entrar a la sala."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 2/4 "This lighthearted meditation on life, death, love and timing contains some genuinely lovely scenes, but they're buried in a shapeless jumble of cutesy-pie vignettes."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C- "With Elizabethtown [Crowe] has made another heartfelt movie shot through with his sensibility. He's also made a gigantic mess, the first directorial misfire in his six-film oeuvre."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 2.5/4 "Story doesn't have an arc so much as a winding S-curve"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 3.5/4 "Elizabethtown is a wonderful comedy/drama about those moments in life when you get lost and have to find your way back again."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "I've always suspected that a failed Cameron Crowe movie would be more entertaining than a successful movie by most Hollywood screenwriters, and this shows I was right."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C "An excruciatingly narcissistic nostalgia trip saturated with writer/director Cameron Crowe’s favorite tunes."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2/5 "Part of the problem lies with Crowe’s script -- which is far and away the most maudlin thing he’s ever written -- and part with his choice of leads."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2.5/5 "It's both strongly involving and a bit too clever for its own good."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D+ "No, Cameron! Not another musical interlude! Please, I'll be good!"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D "I came out of Elizabethtown with one question: what’s the point? I still haven’t figured that out."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2.5/5 "spins and falters like an intoxicated couple on New Year’s Eve"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Elizabethtown never quite feels like itself, whatever that self might be; it's as if another, subtly but significantly different movie were desperately trying to break through its skin."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "Haphazardly mixing comical family situations with witty dialogue and tender, romantic moments, Cameron Crowe loses the focus that distinguished his previous films."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "Dunst plays an android programmed to bestow idiosyncrasy like a Pez dispenser geeked at regular intervals."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 39) of 39 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1