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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Elizabethtown has all of the elements of a great Cameron Crowe movie, but none of the Cameron Crowe vision that made Almost Famous work. It's mostly a series of sweet moments, each capped with the right song at the right time; in fact, the soundtrack is the real star of the movie, and the right song is all there is to piece together a film that is much less than the sum of its parts.
From the start of Elizabethtown, big contrasts are evoked: death and life, success and failure are side by side, so we're told. When the movie starts, Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is experiencing failure and death in spades: the shoe he spent eight years designing for Mercury (a thinly-veiled copy of Nike) has been recalled, costing his company $972 million dollars. On the verge of a suicide attempt, he learns his father has died, and Drew flies to Kentucky to retrieve the body to Oregon for cremation. On the red-eye to Louisville he meets Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), a perky flight att'ndant with a charming flair for cute lines ("I'm impossible to forget, but I’m hard to remember," she chirps). Once in Elizabethtown, Drew tries to plan a memorial while dealing with relatives who have their own agenda in addition to his manic family back in Oregon, all while facing the reality that in a few days he'll be known nationally as one of his industry's most legendary failures. Yet still he manages to connect with Claire on an all-night cell phone conversation--complete with the requisite watching of the sunrise--and to strike up a furtive romance.
So we now have death and life side by side. But despite these dramatic shifts, what sets up to be a roller coaster ride of a film flattens out to a milquetoast middle ground with no real life of its own. Drew Baylor has suffered two tragic personal losses in the course of one day, but you wouldn't know it from Bloom's lethargic performance. There's not much to Claire either. Her whole character is made up mostly of cutesy quotable lines and mysterious little smirks. In the end, Elizabethtown is a film that doesn't know what it wants to be, and unfortunately there's no payoff, other than a few memorable lines and a great soundtrack. --Dan Vancini
Elizabethtown Reviews:
Great product - great service! 
2008-10-02 - My husband has been pestering my for a long time to get this movie and I haven't been able to find it locally. After a few minutes at the site, I found just what I was looking for and managed to order it and receive it before his upcoming birthday. Thanks for making it a huge success!
Like Coming Home
2008-09-15 - Elizabethtown is a beautiful town in Kentucky, and I will admit it rented the DVD simply for that reason. I visited there once, over 25 years ago, and fell in love.
Put simply, the movie will touch the heart of people who enjoy stories about family. It isn't a silly comedy, nor is it a tear jerker,although I did get a lump in my throat once or twice, and I laughed out loud now and then.
Elizabethtown is a movie that shows the value of family, and the soundtrack is simply awesome! I sat, enthralled, for over two hours, and when it was over, I wanted to go out and buy copies for everyone I knew.
I am a simple person, with simple tastes, and Elizabethtown is my kind of movie. I am buying it so I can watch it again and again.
Surrender To The Fantasy
2008-08-22 - I judge the value of a film by how much I can identify with the characters....I've been single my entire life because I never found a 'Clarie'.....That special soul with a third eye that sees things within others they may have missed themselves...I just sat back, turned off my critical eye and just enjoyed the journey into friendship, understanding, humor and eventually love..
Another aspect I enjoyed was Drew's realization that he actually loved his Dad more than he knew...
I realize that I may a voice in the wilderness but I loved the message of never giving up and need to Celebrate Life....and the feeling I was participating in a real love story
Ok movie! 
2008-08-04 - I took my niece to see this movie at the theater when it first came out, mostly because he likes Orlando Bloom. I was quite surprised that I actually liked the movie as well. It is a very slow movie with alot of plots left undone, but the overall romance of the movie was pleasing to me. It's not a movie that I would want to watch over and over again but one that every once in a while, when you need to sit back and rediscover what's important in your life, I wouldn't mind watching. The acting for the most part is ok and they could have really made it a more touching movie but overall it's ok. I wouldn't discourage purchasing the movie, especially if you like any of the actors involved, but I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for a meaty plot or any time of action.
A very nice love story 
2008-06-24 - And the acting on this one is not at all bad either...
It is sort of a "low impact" love story
where friendship flowers into something more.
I liked it... it might even become a classic?
The family and the failure of his shoe open
the hero to a new way of seeing his life.
What he thought was the end, becomes their
beginning.
