Disjointed

Rating: 6/10 (23 September 2006)

The opening sequences are amusing and beautifully timed. Benjamin's effort to achieve a conversation with Mrs. Robinson is very funny. Benjamin's descent into his family's swimming pool is a classic. But once Benjamin meets Elaine and begins to pursue her, the film falls apart. It becomes spasmodic and radically unmotivated. There's just nothing between the two young people. Why he pursues her is unclear. Why she responds is incomprehensible. The only good two moments occur when Mr. Robinson feels insulted after Benjamin says that making it with his wife meant no more than shaking hands, and when Benjamin uses a broken cross to bar a door (to be more specific about that would be to utter a dreaded spoiler). This is a movie that runs of of ideas halfway through -- and we lose the glorious Bancroft as well!