Even If Your Not From Minnesota
A Review By Elmer Beauregard
I went to see the new movie "New In Town" that takes place in New Ulm Minnesota starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. last night. The theater was packed and the audience seemed to love it, they laughed they cried.
The critics are panning it saying that its "formulaic" and the accents are exaggerated too much. All I can say to those critics is, they haven't met my sister Tina. Not everyone in Minnesota talks like the character Blanche Gunderson played by Siobhan Fallon Hogan, but a enough of them do, especially in rural Minnesota. No one in the movie even said "ufda" let alone a "triple ufda", so they aren't exaggerating too much.
The critics are also saying that it isn't funny, well a critic in New York might not see the humor in a handmade quilt that is made for the main character with names and phone numbers embroidered in it for her safety.
Most movies these days are about how the planet it being destroyed by man, so it was nice to see a movie that actually portrays life in Minnesota in the winter where people are just struggling to survive and stay warm. And how we are forced to do stupid things like ice fish and scrapbook to prevent us from going crazy.
Sure it only got 16% on RottenTomatoes by the critics but the users gave it 70%.
I give it 4 Snow Shovels out of a possible 4.
Thanks for the review, I am going to try to talk my wife into finding time from her busy schedule to go see this, based on your recommendation.
I should say that I had very low expectations going into it.
How do you pronounce ufda? What does it mean? How is that used?
We have some interesting words down here in Florida, too. Ufda is one I've never heard before.
We are needing some Global Warming down here, too. This morning there were icicles on my palm trees.
Pronounced oofah
sorry to hear about the icicles, if you send me a picture I'll post it.