Monte Carlo

2011 "She's having the time of someone else's life."
5.8| 1h49m| PG| en
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Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

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Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
RavenGlamDVDCollector This time poor darling Katie gets to go to France without being kidnapped? Anybody else, who when they see her living it up in a French hotel, keep expecting the evil abductors to come rushing in to grab her and carry her off?To parrot one of the other reviewers: Could have been a Walt Disney movie. Has exactly the same structure, down to the ultimately toothless bad girl villain. Just here, it got the big studio treatment.The Crazy Credits entry here on IMDb is absolutely wrong. There are several "location markers" scattered throughout the movie, and, yes, 31 minutes in one appears for Monte Carlo, but that is not the title. The title appears as could be expected at the beginning. Somebody who dozed off made that entry, and it's made fools out of all you lot, 'cause nobody latched on. Or, like me, just don't have the savvy to get rid of the stupid mistake. I tried, but found no such option. Leighton Meester, the girl from GOSSIP GIRL, which I have yet to see, not what I expected. Selena Gomez has her very, very fresh look, but to me it is Katie all the way. Katie, Katie, Katie. Love that scene on the bed early on in the movie, when they've usurped their ill-begotten room. Darling! And Katie's lovely long legs when she goes up the steps (seen from behind), her soft foot sole, and, of course, that foxy little face. Yes, I have made a thorough study of her.I did not buy it for the story, but for the pretty girls. There is an abundance of (a) the backs of Katie's legs, and (b) elevator doors opening and closing. Ideal drinking game cues. Katie's legs would be the nicest way to get thoroughly intoxicated.Another serious review brought to you by chick- obsessed old RavenGlamDVDCollector. On a heartwarming note, would just like to add, I love that bit where Owen said that he had everything in the truck that he wanted, meaning Emma. If I had a chick like that, I'd settle for any old campfire rather than a fancy snooty ritzy no- fun-anyway stuck-up old principality.
Python Hyena Monte Carlo (2011): Dir: Thomas Bezucha / Cast: Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy, Cory Monteith, Theo Marchand: Surprisingly better than one may at first believe. It regards experience as seen within a screenplay that has been rehashed many times. It regards mistaken identities and stars three teenage girls who travel to Europe only to miss their tour bus. One is mistaken for a young bratty lookalike celebrity who is suppose to do a charity. The cast render this recycled story watchable. Selena Gomez does fine in duo roles. She is at first disappointed because her older sister and her best friend do not get along. Then she is mistaken for someone else and everything pretty much becomes predictable. Leighton Meester plays her reasonable yet uptight older sister who will catch the eye of an Australian gentleman thus unleashing her wild side. Katie Cassidy plays the promiscuous best friend who learns a thing or two about wealth and good manners when she is invited onto a yacht. Cory Monteith plays Cassidy's boyfriend who acts like a douche in the film's opening, but has second thoughts and travels to Europe to make amends. We know where this is heading and that the identities will be revealed and all will be well and happily ever after. Theo Marchand plays the son of the hosting philanthropist and he doesn't initially take much of a liking to her. It features beautiful photography and locations that highlight throughout. This is hardly a great film, and it contains very little originality but it is entertaining for its target audience whom will likely have dreamed of such travels. Score: 5 / 10
Dan I'm usually not the person who enjoys these kind of movies, but this in particular I found to be very enjoyable. Yes the mistaken identity plot of the story is not new, however what matters is how it was approached.Shot beautifully on location it feels the atmosphere with European essence. There are no continuous crude and in-your face gags (which is the primary reason I guess many disliked the movie), no trite situations offensive to your intelligence. The movie does not have a frantic pace instead offering a hopelessly romantic and delectable experience with high level acting of all main three heroines and the side characters. Being a "teen oriented" comedy there were some situations that were a bit overly sugar-coated but even then you won't get diabetes from it. In fact I would say this movie is everything that Midnight Paris or To Rome with Love were not.
edwagreen This is basically a romantic comedy of 3 American girls on summer holiday in France finding romance and revealing to themselves who they really are.Missing that tour bus leads to a madcap adventure when one of the girls is mistaken for resembling a British heiress, the latter being quite nasty to say the least.Romance abounds for the three women as they are wined and dined at Monte Carlo where the nasty one was supposed to be.There are some inane moments, but the picture is basically a satisfying one as the girls find adventure by being at the right place at the right time.As for our nasty heiress, she does receive an awakening of what life should be about and that in itself makes this a film worthy of praise.