New in Town

'New in Town' is a rom-com set amid layoffs. Alas, its gags and dialogue needed more investment

The timing couldn't have been better for a romantic comedy with a love-among-the-financial-ruins theme to come along. But if you're looking for a welcome mat for "New in Town," you won't find it here.
The new comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. is flat, the romance is listless, the pacing is sluggish, and the fish-out-of-water flops -- flip-flop, flip-flop, I can hear it still. Set in the ice-encrusted Minnesota outback where business at a small town's major employer, a yogurt plant, is souring, "New in Town" comes with a high relatability factor. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4865 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 gennaio 2009