Number Rolled: 20
Movie Name/Year: Chalet
Girl (2011)
Genre: Romance
Length: 96
minutes
Rating: R
Director: Phil
Traill
Writer: Tom
Williams
Actors: Felicity
Jones, Bill Bailey, Rebecca Lacey, Tom Goodman-Hill, Tamsin Egerton, Georgia
Kind, Gregor Bloeb, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields, Sophia Bush,
Nicolas Braun, Ken Duken, Tara Dakides, Adam Bousdoukos
Kim was a big deal in the skating world before her mother’s
accident took her out of commission. Suddenly, she’s facing the prospect of
flipping burgers for the rest of her life. A lucky break opens for her when she
learns about a job opening to wait on much better tippers than those one would
find in the fast food industry.
If I had to combine two works of creativity in order to
describe “Chalet Girl” it would be “Blue Crush,” with much better actors and
better writing, and this series I used to read when I was a teenager called “Sunset
Island,” by Cherie Bennett. Of course, it was a little grown up to fully
resemble the teenage-level romance series, but not nearly grown up enough for
an R rating, in my opinion. I get the reasons behind it, but I think the rating
was a case of stick-up-ass-dom instead of an objective view of the film.
I thought it was cute. I really enjoyed Felicity Jones and
Ed Westwick as actors. Bill Nighy is always a welcome presence in a movie and I
think British movies just have a more relaxed tone to them. If this same movie
were created with an American tone, I feel like it would have gone the way of
every other sport-romance-competition-themed nonsense that we put out. I’m not
saying I only like British movies, but they definitely have found a spot in my
heart they don’t intend to give up.
It’s not the most original movie that’s ever been made. It’s
not even the most original movie I watched today. None-the-less, it worked its
recipe well and the final product is fun. That’s really the whole point of this
kind of film.
Netflix’s Prediction for Me – 3.3/5
Overall Opinion – 3.5/5
P.S. Small scenes and bloopers are played during the
credits.
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