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| Monte Carlo (8/10) by Tony Medley Run Time 107 minutes OK for children. There have been lots of films about teenaged women. Surprisingly, some of them have been very entertaining, like Mean Girls (2004). There have also been more that have been excruciating. Due to the odds, I wasn't expecting much when I attended Monte Carlo, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it an entertaining comedy. Three young women, Selena Gomez, her buddy Katie Cassidy, and her strict, humorless stepsister Leighton Meester, take a trip to Monte Carlo where Selena is mistaken for a selfish, snobby socialite, for whom she is a dead ringer. In the spirit of most good screwball comedies, things get sticky as the three take advantage of the mistake, and sign on for what appears to be a high ride in rich circumstances which includes a luxury stay at the exclusive Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo. Adapted by director Thomas Bezucha (who also wrote with April Blair and Maria Maggenti with another credit for "screen story," whatever that is, by Kelly Bowe) from the novel Headhunters by Jules Bass, all three fall in love with guys, Pierre Boulanger, Cory Monteith and Luke Bracey, respectively. The latter turns Meester from a nag into a more reasonable, fun-loving person. The cast is agreeable, although Gomez less so, even though she gives an adequate performance in a double role. She has an odd look that I found hard to ignore. She doesn't look that way in other photos unrelated to the movie. She might have a cause of action against the makeup person and cinematographer. When she's in the same scene with the gorgeous Cassidy her looks stand out even more, and that's not a compliment. The stars of the film are Bezucha, who directs with a deft touch, and Cinematographer Jonathan Brown, who provides some stunning shots of Paris and Monte Carlo. Shay Cunliffe designed lots of smashing outfits for the girls to wear, reminiscent of Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). There's even a film clip of the girls watching Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in the quintessential French Riviera movie, Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955). This is a movie anyone can enjoy.
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