New In Town

Oh my oh my......where to start?

The other day I realized that I was going to have a free evening to myself. What to do? What to do? So many choices! So, I decided on a few crafts to finish up, and go rent a movie that I have never seen before, and one in which my husband would most likely not want to sit through. With my first choice of movies being completely out, I decided on this one, New In Town. Boy was that a mistake!

I normally enjoy Renee Zellweger, especially as Miss Bridget Jones, but was completely disappointed by hers (as well as everyone else') performance in this rather dull movie. I am not sure if she even cracked a smile throughout the entire film, though she was supposed to be falling in love with elusive stranger in hick ville (OK, Minnisota....though they give all the residents there a terrible accent and make them look like they have the IQ of a rodent), Harry Conick Jr. And don't even get me started on him. Never ever have I benefited from a single performance on screen with Mr. Conick Jr. And this performance was no different. Boring and uninspiriting to the last male line.

The plot is completely predictable, and seen many times before, in much better movies. Boy meets girl, boy and girl don't like each other, boy and girl are forced to spend time together, and wall-ah! Boy and girl end up falling in love. We've seen it before, we will see it again, and with much better acting talent the next time.

Completely predictable, uninteresting. I knew what was approaching, never having even seen the trailer. I was doing crafts throughout the entire movie, missing scenes here and there to do something (anything!) else, and still didn't miss a thing. Got bored, got distracted; and that is very telling considering I am a hopeless romantic and am normally glued to the screen with any type of "true love" scene approaching. Predictable plot, predictable lines, and unfortunately, predictable acting. And, I would like to add, unrealistic. The characters were contrived, the situation was just "too perfect" for the plot. No fun at all!

The best part of the movie was the Carrie Underwood song playing during the end scene.

I give New In Town my lowest rating, a four diaper day! Yikes!