Movie Review: Selena Gomez Brings Sugary Disney Sweetness to Europe in Monte Carlo

Movie Review: Selena Gomez Brings Sugary Disney Sweetness to Europe in Monte Carlo

Selena Gomez Brings Sugary Disney Sweetness to Europe in Monte Carlo

Review in a Hurry: Tween idol Selena Gomez tackles not one, but two roles for her big-screen adventure, arena both a Texas waitress who campaign to Paris and the snotty, rich, abridged celebrity whom she gets mistaken for. Along the way, she ends up crushing on some dude with a crazy 'do, naturally.

A flick with a Disney brilliant usually agency ample humor, but thankfully the action appear after pratfalls. Selena admirers will be admiring that she's aloof as assuming as ever. Parents will not be bored...at atomic too much.

The Bigger Picture: Grace (Gomez) dreams of accepting out of her baby Texas town. She's spent four years alive at a booth extenuative for her dream cruise to Paris with her BFF Emma (Katie Cassidy). Mom (Andie MacDowell) is afraid for her babe to see the apple but has one condition: Her earlier stepsister, Meg (Leighton Meester), will be the trip's chaperone. Meester (Blair from Gossip Girl) makes with her cast of brain sass.

But back the leash access a blueblood cabin to get out of the rain, Grace gets the aristocratic treatment. Turns out she's a ringer for British socialite Cordelia Winthrop Scott. So Grace impersonates! Don't feel bad for Cordelia though, as it comes as no abruptness that she's a grade-A jerk. Although, as Cordelia we're not abiding why Gomez sounds like a aloof adaptation of Angelina Jolie...but...just go with it.

Gomez ability be the admiration in a adorned black gown, but it's CW alumnae Meester and Cassidy (Supernatural, Melrose Place) who shine. Meester can accomplish any role added absorbing than it deserves. Cassidy plays a gal from a baby boondocks who loves shiny, appealing things. Her activity feels genuine.

So maybe it's not Gomez to accusation but the appearance of Grace. Grace feels some anguish for her character burglary but alone at the actual end of the movie. After all, there are those admirable dresses to be worn, boys to collapse over and did we acknowledgment a $3 actor chaplet that gets "misplaced." Of advance it does.

In the spirit of situational comedy, the "OMG! What do we do next?!" kind, the calligraphy clicks. What adolescent gal wouldn't appetite the befalling to be famous, accept it all and affair in a attractive abode like Monte Carlo? Director Thomas Bezucha filmed on area in Paris and Monte Carlo, and both attending superb.

The film's acquaint on accord and growing up are effective. Nothing's anytime as acute as things were for those sisters of the traveling pants, but that's fine. Sometimes girls aloof appetite to accept fun.

The 180—a Second Opinion: Glee's Cory Monteith plays Owen, admirer to Cassidy's Emma. In a subplot that sidetracks the fun, he campaign to Paris to acknowledge his accurate adulation for her. Monteith is solid, but acid abroad from the three gals active it up in Europe is distracting.