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Release Date: 04 February, 2003 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
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Lifeless, Pointless, Lacking-- You Name It
The Newcomers.
You know a movie is not worth it when you and your sister start trying to predict what'll happen and you end up right-- all the time. You definitely know it when you start getting tears in your eyes because you're so disgusted with the uneventfulness of the movie. Or you start laughing at the idiocy, either one. I did both. The Newcomers is utterly dull, overly long, terribly predictable, absolutely no point whatsoever. Script is weak, characters are weak, plot is weak and sometimes confusing. The list can go on, and on, and on, and on...just like the movie.
From what I understand, it's about this family who go bankrupt, or something. They move to a country home, which is really country as they seem to be out in the middle of nowhere. The son (I forget his name) discovers a friend in a stray dog, which looks like it belongs in a Victorian lady's lap. The son, and family, has trouble with the next door neighbor bully, Gil, and his father. Bascially, the conflict seems to be "big city family moves to country; receives cold welcome from neighbors". Of course, that's resolved when the son saves Gil from drowning. It comes down to an uneventful "we've-seen-it-all-before" ending.
This movie made me feel as though I were watching an over-long Hallmark card commercial, the kind they show when a Hallmark movie is being debuted on CBS or something. Although, with those commercials, there's an objective.
MUSIC: Piano. The whole thing is piano! A slow, dreary, depressing piece of...dullness. I was struck stupid.
ACTING: Lacking. They just can't do it like they mean it. (Except perhaps Kate Bosworth, but that doesn't make her one of my favorites.)
So there you have it: The Newcomers are just not worth visiting.
absolutely average
i agree with review above on some aspects. however, i feel that the acting was on point for most of the film. clearly, this is the product of actors making the best of a bad script, low budget, and poor direction. The same goes for the music. i enjoyed the piano based score, as if a quiet family film needed complex orchestral arrangement or driving themes. this is a truly average film. where it's not going to win any oscars, it gets the job done as safe family fare.
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