"New in Town" is new, but charming

"New in Town" gives us as Lucy Renée Zellweger, a hard-driving business transferred to Miami ice Minnesota, where the first look down the natives, but learns to look for them.

The film takes the fish out of water and the story makes it pleasant with a couple of intriguing twists. You need not be a Nobel prize to know that she swoon local piece Ted (Harry Connick Jr.), but she falls in love with frigid New Ulm, too. The frostbitten yokels are warm and the sun tan exec reserves cold efficiency to its value at home decency, and all well that ends well.

Written by former Minneapolitan Ken Rance and directed by Jonas Elmer from Denmark, the film squeezes every ounce of sweet comic potential brutal Windchill, Lutheran reluctance bread-and-white kitchen. Lucy the first unit in the city to put its vision in the middle of nowhere, a white and bedraggled leaf farms without pause between the snowy plains and cloudy skies.

She is clumsy hospitality received by his secretary, Blanche Gunderson (Siobhan Fallon Hogan), who not only shares a name with "Fargo to" conduct, but also as the voice-torturing patterns of speech and his candid, deadpan sincerity . Lucy Blanche has known about an hour when she innocently asked if the newcomer has found Jesus. "I did not know he needed," Lucy volleys back.

Lucy is the best to reduce the size of the workforce in the city of food-processing plant, which puts it in conflict with Ted, the union representative, and Stu (JK Simmons), the plant manager crisp. Lucy resists her attraction to Ted until the handsome Hick rescues a frigid fate after he drives away from an icy road. His gesture of good Samaritanism in the north teaches her a lesson about cooperation and turns a chaste courtship.

Their romance is derailed when the order came from Miami to close the plant altogether, and - prepare for a shock - Lucy must choose between his heart and his career. The resolution is a celebration of the spiritual, family and community values in the face of adversity is not a bad message for our times.

"New in Town" is the audience, mass-market friendly entertainment seeks simple and great emotions, general laughter. The film works more or less the same level of cultural stereotype as "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" or a film of Tyler Perry. All the men wear long Johns, all scrapbooks and keep women girls large cities that use high heels of ice fall.

So if your tolerance for Scandihoovian accents, slapstick and sentimentality is thin, clear lead. But those of us who can look in the mirror and laugh at our earflap hats does not seem half bad. The hokey cartoons are affectionate, non-abrasive and coulda get a heckuva lot worse don'cha know.

by: Startribune