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The movie centers on Lucy Hill, an ambitious executive who loves climbing the corporate ladder as well as all the material goods that her success can buy. She seizes the opportunity to be assigned, in the middle of nowhere, to restructure a manufacturing plant, not knowing that it will change her life forever.
In the current economic climate, this comedy about workers whose livelihood is rescued by a benevolent boss represents the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy. Don't spend your hard-earned discretionary cash on it.
It follows a particularly abhorrent Hollywood formula: Ridicule the friendly, rural folks, show how stupid they are, then by the end, place their small-town values and inherent decency on a pedestal.
New in Town is old, and worn out. Its joints are creaky, it smells like mothballs, and it just keeps repeating the same old stories over and over again.
We could use an upbeat film with a solid Frank Capra vibe. But New in Town doesn't elicit a rah-rah spirit so much as it reawakens the cynical thought that such lazy screenwriters deserve to be out of work.
January 30, 2009
Wall Street Journal
The month of January has come to be known as a graveyard for bad movies, but how bad can it get? This one answers the question.