Film Review: New in Town

What's not: Most of the time the characters are dripping with an overdose of sugar syrup reeking the smell of perfectly baked pies. Cut off from the rest of the world and living in a Wisteria Lane where values and traditions are still intact comes off as being unbelievable. There is hardly any chemistry between Renee and Connick Jr. The two take to their roles as if performing one-act plays. It's a lazy romantic comedy that comforts itself into a cocoon made of cliches and banal interactions between the leads. Zellweger seriously needs to shake up a few things. With the choices she's been making in the last few years, she might just be bumped off the radar soon.

What to do: A forgettable fare, this one makes no attempt to engage you in wit or romance.