Monte Carlo
“Monte Carlo” does not lack. There’s so much that it hinders the pleasure on meeting face to this object specifically designed for tweens. As if this production had to meet a set formula, which requires at the same time charming performers not to unleash their talent.
The saying goes that the trip form youth. This is especially true of three Americans (Selena Gomez, Blake Lively, and Katie Cassidy) passing through Paris. When their journey is about to fall into the water, they find a way to put a little spice, including pretending to be someone they are not.
This film adaptation of the book by Jules Bass was designed for a very specific audience: tweens who dream of love and travel. These two concepts are not lacking. The three heroines find their charming prince and they will visit a multitude of places that make dream.
We should expect nothing else from this test done anonymously directed by Thomas Bezucha (“The Family Stone”). The staging of music sprinkled what should have remained intact and the pretty picture is full of platitudes, maps for tourists. As if the goal was to remain in the section of the introduction of “Midnight In Paris” by Woody Allen, the charming less and Valérie Lemercier and more. Everyone seems to speak English in the City of Light, it is possible to cross three times in a short time a stranger in a place dotted with millions of inhabitants and the most enormous improbabilities become everyday realities.
Yes, it is a fiction film and cinema generally synonymous with magic, but it is mostly ineffective. Life lessons take too much space, humor barely gets a few smiles and the romance does not because the actors are not always at ease together. Officials are still the male, more decorative than anything else. This is especially unfortunate because the female trio is fairly well designed. Katie Cassidy sunshine around him with her bright smile, Leighton Meester could be an excellent replacement for Kristen Stewart and Selena Gomez is quite comfortable in a dual role.
By not taking any risks and reproducing the same old mold that is supposed formatted appeal to a specific clientele, “Monte Carlo” will be forgotten once looked. It is not given to everyone to innovate in the least in this area.
