Review: New In Town

Lucy Hill (Renee Zellweger) is a high achiever shooting to become a Vice President. To show the President that she has the ability, she takes an assignment to restructure one of their small manufacturing plants in Minnesota. From the high life in Miami to the bitter cold, snow, and icy roads, Lucy must endure these hardships to succeed. Lucy is treated as an outsider when she arrives, and the locals give her a week before she leaves. Lucy is a fighter and wants to win. She meets Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick, Jr.) who is the union representative. At first, she has some conflicts with the workers, but soon they begin to accept her. The new product line is a bust, and she is ordered to close the plant and fire everyone. However, she has a better idea of making money for the company and saving everybody’s job. Along the way, she finds something she didn’t know she was looking for – “Love”.

What We Thought:
From the moment the movie starts its obvious where it is going, you could pop out of the cinema and go back in just before it finishes and you will have got the plot bang on without even seeing it, Renee seems to be a one trick pony, squint a lot, fall over and look confused and she has a hit on her hands, well this one is the exception to the zellweger rule failing miserably.

The only good things about the film are Siobhan Fallon who plays a small town local to a tee, and J.K Simmons (Juno) who plays a stubborn factory foreman who rubs up the boss the wrong way, both characters are fantastic and have their funny moments, but unfortunately for a comedy the laughs are few and far between leaving at its core a very weak love story between Connick Jr and Zellweger. If you are looking for a no brainer after a long week at work then this is your horse, if you fancy something engaging and funny steer clear.

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