Recent high school graduate Selena Gomez travels with her older best friend Katie Cassidy and her step sister Leighton Meester on a dream vacation to France. While abroad Selena is mistaken for an identical looking snooty British heiress and ends up taking her place in Monte Carlo for a week of fundraising activities for a children's charity, an event her self involved double bailed on for a last minute trip to New York. While aboard Selena and her comrades each get to have at least one love interest.
There's nothing original about 'Monte Carlo', it is assembled from clichés, story tropes and parts of other movies. However, as an exercise in story assembly it is very well done, balancing the narratives of its three leads, paying off on its set ups and allowing each protagonists to arc. Perhaps it was the mood I was in, but I enjoyed this movie, I even kind of cared about these people. In hind sight I know it's probably just so-so but I'm gonna go high on this movie and give it ***
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