There’s something refreshing about seeing Zach Braff renew his “Scrubs” card with a lighter-than-lightweight rom-com that leans into the “sensitive” side which he’s always played for laughs.

In “French Girl,” he’s trying to impress his hockey-crazed Canadian in-laws to be, but actually “I don’t follow hockey. I’m more into figure skating,” which he proves by naming a couple of decades of great skaters and marveling at “the dazzling costumes.”

The big sissy.

He likes dressing up in 16th century “pantaloons” when he reads Shakespeare to his classes.

And he’s Mr. Supportive Beau when it comes to his French Canadian girlfriend’s (Evelyn Brochu) returning to her native Quebec City to become a star chef there. Her farm family drafts him into duck hunting and lamb slaughtering, which goes against his nature.

All of which underscores that “French Girl” is a clafoutis dessert stuffed with nothing but low-hanging fruit.

It’s about a middle school teacher — Gordon — who travels to Quebec with his lady love Sophie where she has a test/tryout at a swank new restaurant that her culinary school rival and friend (Vanessa Hudgens) is opening.

Ruby is a culinary star, with cookbooks, TV shows and an “empire” of eateries under her name, which she is sure to tell you when you meet her.

One thing Gordon doesn’t pick up on is that she and Sophie used to be a thing. Her family (Luc Picard, Isabelle Vincent, Antoine Olivier Pilon and Charlotte Aubin) know what he doesn’t — at first — that Ruby and Sophie were close to inseperable.

That running gag of Gordon being in the dark doesn’t deliver many laughs, nor does the disastrous duck hunt, the waterbed he and Sophie have to share and the brother (Pilon) who wants to be a cop, but needs a crash course in English (from Gordon).

One cute touch — Gordon understands French, so everybody can talk to him and yell at him in French with him responding in English.

There’s granny with dementia (Muriel Dutil) who makes off with the “survived the sinking of the Titanic” family ring that Gordon plans to ask Sophie to marry him with. That almost manages a chuckle.

But Hudgens makes a splendid egomaniac mean girl hell bent on getting Sophie back, a woman whose every move screams “SHOWBOAT!” She belts out a self-written tune at a funeral, hosts her TV show like she’s done it all her life and seems to have all the advantages against hapless Gordon.

William Fichtner plays Gordon’s mystery-novelist dad with a nice twinkle.

But basically this “French (CANADIAN) Girl” is a 75 minute dawdle buried in a 106 minute movie. Braff can still land a punch line and manage goofy, “sensy” banter. There just isn’t enough of it here to hold one’s interest. Comedies do not live on low-hanging fruit alone.

Rating: R, sexual situations, profanity

Cast: Zach Braff, Evelyn Brochu, Luc Picard, Antoine Olivier Pilon, William Fichtner and Vanessa Hudgens

Credits: Scripted and directed by James A. Woods and Nicholas Wright. A Paramount release on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 1:46