Chalet Girl (2011)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 9
Chalet Girl is light comedic fun geared for teenage girls, featuring a charming performance from Felicity Jones.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
Chalet Girl is light comedic fun geared for teenage girls, featuring a charming performance from Felicity Jones.
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Pretty tomboy Kim (Felicity Jones) used to be a champion skateboarder, but now she flips burgers to support herself and her dad. Opportunity comes knocking when she flukes a winter-long catering job in one of the plushest ski chalets in the Alps. At first, Kim is baffled by this bizarre new world of posh people, vintage champagne, epic mountains and waist deep powder. Then Kim discovers snowboarding, and her natural talent soon sees her training for the end-of-season competition, with a chance
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Cast
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Felicity Jones
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Ed Westwick
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Tamsin Egerton
Georgie -
Bill Nighy
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Bill Bailey
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Brooke Shields
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Sophia Bush
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Ken Duken
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Adam Bousdoukos
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Gregor Bloéb
Bernhard -
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All Critics (43) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (9) | DVD (1)
Pleasant if timid...
Top CriticJones may be a charismatic comedian, but no amount of her skilled mugging, Britpop tunes or help from supporting stars can transform this derivative ugly duckling into a comic Anglophile swan.
Hot Dog... The Movie and its disreputable ski-comedy ilk might have been a low point in cinema history, but at least their unbridled crassness had energy; Chalet Girl embraces similar '80s tropes for a lethargic you-go-girl fairy tale.
The dialogue is more sensible than the plotting, allowing us to forgive the film's more serious trespasses.
A chirpy, tween-skewing, snowboarding-themed romantic comedy.
It's hard not to instantly forgive all the script's occasional faults and just be swept up in the feel-good nature of such a charming, easily-likable release.
Unashamedly aiming at a teenage audience, the film's lack of pretension is oddly refreshing
There's just not enough to hold attention, eventually succumbing entirely to convention in a particularly insipid finale. Who knows, maybe even teenage girls will be rolling their eyes at the predictability of it all.
Chalet Girl is what it says on the label - feel-good, unpretentious, snowbound fun.
Undemanding, forgettable, formulaic teen rom-com.
Chalet Girl is a pedestrian affair that limply modernises the Cinderella fairytale for fun and profit.
It's an unassuming film but a surprisingly beguiling one.
Sure, it's predictable, implausible and clearly skewed toward a young female demographic, but it's also enjoyable escapist fun.
This is a very benign comedy that is elevated by the completely natural performance of Felicity Jones.
With its down to earth heroine ... the film underplays the triumph of the spirit theme, while delivering a satisfying, textured experience
The scenery is gorgeous and although the plot is predictable, it's a pleasant interlude with some laughs and surprising observations
Chalet Girl comes as a breath of fresh, Alpine air in that it's a very British, no-nonsense story of a working class girl who falls for her posh employer.
It's all very third division école de Richard Curtis.
A sort of goofy celebration of female self-empowerment, one in which the standard romcom goal of scoring a dreamy boyfriend takes a back seat to finding yourself through being good at something exciting.
The humour is aimed at teens but Jones' likeable presence make this a pleasant watch.
Audience Reviews for Chalet Girl
Super Reviewer
Director: Phil Traill
Summary: Ex-skateboarder Kim Matthews is transplanted to the world of alpine sports, an environment she finds foreign ... until she tries snowboarding. When her Finnish friend Mikki offers to coach her, Kim is on her way to being tops in a new event.
My Thoughts: "I didn't really know what this movie was about going into it since I didn't read the summary or watch a trailer on it. You ever do that? Well silly me, I did. So I was surprised by the emotions this film had brought with what I thought was going to be a silly comedy that would pass the time. There was some funny moments, but it was really a more of a sad story about a girl who loses her mother and her biggest cheerleader. After the death of her mother she refuses to pick up a skateboard again but soons picks up the next best thing, a snowboard. Great little movie with much heart as it has comedy with a bit of romance. Not bad acting either."
Super Reviewer
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- Bill: Right, Austria, good for 3 things; breaded food, the Sound of Music, and the invention of physco analysis.
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- Jonny: Sanity is overrated. Tried it once, didn't get it.
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- Kim: No, irony is free. It's sarcasm you're paying for. Ironically.
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