MILEY CYRUS - MOVIE REVIEWS NEW IN TOWN

MOVIE REVIEWS NEW IN TOWN

Releasing a film in January is usually a sign that the studio doesn't have much hope for it. Releasing it on Super Bowl weekend is usually a sign of utter pessimism about its chances. Yet some female-oriented movies have performed reasonably well on the weekend of the Big Game, like last year's Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds Concert . That is not likely to be the case with New in Town. . Most critics agree that it will likely screen at a lot of near-empty theaters by the time Sunday rolls around. As Joe Morgenstern comments in the 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 ." His is a sentiment shared by several other critics. "To say that New in Town is the worst movie of this fledgling year is to damn it with faint praise. It may be one of the worst movies of any year," writes Claudia Puig in USA Today. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post calls the movie "excruciatingly unfunny," while Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer says that it "is so choppy that it would seem to have been edited with a pickax."

30/01/2009