Blonde Ambition is one of the weirder DVD releases of the month. It's a film that's so old-fashioned as to be no-fashioned and so light on its feet that you almost forget that you're watching it while it's playing. Already an urban legend in the world of romantic comedy, Blonde Ambition will have a few fans of the genre looking for something sweet this Valentine's Day and Jessica Simpson fans are likely to take a peek, but they'll find a movie that isn't substantial enough to even be called awful. It almost seems mean to give it a bad review. It's too forgettable. To be blunt, Jessica Simpson, who seems sweet enough in real life, should really stick to music and reality TV and the bizarrely cast ensemble, including Willie Nelson, Andy Dick, and Luke Wilson, all look they're in someone's odd vanity project and they can't tell her that it's not working. Wilson, in particular, has an undeniable look of a man who wants to be rescued. Despite having a strange lack of comic timing, Simpson can't fully be blamed for this poorly directed, poorly written project that never justifies its existence beyond maybe being a Lifetime Movie of the Week...and not even a good one.

In case you haven't heard the story of Blonde Ambition, the film was released in Texas - the home state of stars Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson - late last year. It only opened on eight screens and made such a small amount of money on its first day that the Wikipedia posting claims to be able to tell you exactly how many people saw the comedy that first Friday - 48. Half that many people probably wandered into the wrong theater. A bomb of epic proportions, Blonde Ambition was quickly shuffled off to DVD, where it might find a small audience in the season of cold days and romantic nights.

In what is basically a riff off Working Girl, Jessica Simpson plays Katie, a small-town girl who chases her boyfriend to New York, only to find him cheating on her. Rather than head back to her small-town life, Katie finds herself in a land made up of romantic comedy cliches, including a hunky construction worker played by Luke Wilson. She stumbles into a job when two scheming co-workers played by Andy Dick and Penelope Ann Miller somehow decide that making Katie the boss' secretary will help them with their nefarious plans. Of course, it backfires and Katie gets to be both a strong working woman and a romantic lead for a Wilson brother. Everyone seems well-intentioned, but Blonde Ambition is simply never funny and never romantic, making it oddly inconsequential. On Valentine's Day, it can be easy to forgive a bad romantic comedy when you're surrounded by flowers and candy hearts, but, even then, Blonde Ambition is unlikely to keep you interested for its running time.