An average movie

Even though  I wasn't expecting much from this flick, since I have a weak spot for Renée Zellweger, I thought I might as well check it out. By the way, what the hell happened to her actually? It seems that after 'Cinderella man', a supposedly high profile feature which eventually flopped, she pretty much lost her spot on the A list and since then she didn't do anything remotely interesting even if she still managed to get the lead in most of her movies. Anyway, this time, she showed up in a really uninspired romantic comedy. While watching this, it actually reminded me of 'Up in the Air', another movie dealing with layoffs, the only difference was that 'Up in the Air' was actually a good movie. Indeed, even though it dealt serioulsy with this subject, it still managed to be funny. This movie, however, was not funny and was simply rather weak. It never took its subject or the characters involved seriously, especially the people from Minnesota who were all portrayed as some kind of stupid morons. Why should I take this movie seriously then? Eventually, it just boringly followed the rules of the genre and it was just tedious to watch. To conclude, I have seen worse movies but it was still pretty average and I don’t think it is worth a look whatsoever.