There's a winning little road picture with an appealing couple and great music in writer-director Cameron Crowe's "Elizabethtown," but it's not until Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst blow town that it gets up any speed. Crowe makes an awkward start with a load of tosh about the shoe business, and he dwells far too long on a gaggle of sentimental small-town stereotypes instead of getting the leads out on Route 66 where they belong. The overelaborate film, screened out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival, would be far better off losing a third of its 133 minutes, and its unnecessary length may contribute to a slack boxoffice unless the sparks that finally occur between the leads prompts positive word-of-mouth.

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