New in Town

I think it was pretty much a given that I was going to see the movie New in Town. I saw the preview for it when I saw Bride Wars and I thought, finally, someone has made a romantic comedy I can relate to.... but barely.

New in Town is a movie about Lucy (Renee Zellwegger) a corporate-ladder climbing single gal with a closetful of high heels perfect for the weather of Miami, Florida. The company she works for puts her on the first plane bound for Middle of Freakin' Nowhere, Minnesota where she is given the task of closing down a food processing plant while its really cold and she is forced to wear snow boots and a North Face parka thing with a fur-lined hood. She probably has to wear socks, too, I shudder just thinking about it. The townsfolk all make fun of Lucy's big city ways and give Lucy a hard time. In turn, they are all stereotyped as funny talking scrap-bookers with hideous sweaters or beer-drinking, football-watching blue collar workers. When I move to my cold foreign town I will be hanging out with the latter. I received a check-minus in scissor control on my Kindergarten report card. I think you need to be able to cut to be a scrap-booker, however, there is little skill in holding a beer bottle. So, back to Lucy. Yes well, she falls in love with the town and its people and Harry Connick Jr and his snow plow so she can't find it in her squinty little heart to close the plant and leave the Minnesotans without jobs. She saves their jobs and then sucks face with Harry Connick Jr. and everyone lives happily ever after.

Not a bad movie. It had some good writing and the acting wasn't bad. New in Town was a better movie than Bride Wars... but barely. I saw Bride Wars for free and actually paid for New in Town so I feel that I am karmically square with the movie industry now.

If you failed to see the parallels between my life and this movie I will break it down for you. I am moving from a fascinating state with awesome weather year-round that allows me to wear fashionable clothes to a state that I will grow to love even with the cold weather. I will become accustomed to deer in the road and having to wear ugly clothes that keep me warm. The locals will make fun of me but the locals make fun of me here in my home town. So that isn't really changing. The big differences between me and this movie are: I may not have a job and Harry Connick Jr isn't waiting for me.

The movie also reminded me that I could be moving to a state much worse than Ohio. I must be thankful for the little things,like not moving to Minnesota, and being so much closer to New York City than I ever imagined.