{"id":319233,"date":"2011-03-18T08:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/chalet-girl-its-no-four-weddings-but-the-latest-british-romcom-is-a-fun-frolic-in-the-snow\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T08:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:35:57","slug":"chalet-girl-its-no-four-weddings-but-the-latest-british-romcom-is-a-fun-frolic-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/chalet-girl-its-no-four-weddings-but-the-latest-british-romcom-is-a-fun-frolic-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalet Girl: It&#8217;s no Four Weddings but the latest British romcom is a fun frolic in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"102.398320651\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 8:35 AM on 18th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: <span>Fluffy British romcom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Chalet Girl: It's no Four Weddings but the latest British romcom is a fun frolic in the snow\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-03-18T08:35+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/26143e5bg_showbiz_3.gif.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"3 Star Rating\" title=\"3 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, the little-seen picture Flashbacks Of A Fool led me to rhapsodise about the \u2018fresh, pretty and talented\u2019 newcomer Felicity Jones; but it\u2019s taken until now for our film industry to find her the role that will make her a star.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s arrived with Chalet Girl, a fluffy little romcom that could have been better, but will do nicely until something more daring comes along.<\/p>\n<p>Jones \u2014 in real life a 27-year-old Oxford English graduate \u2014 is delightful as Kim, a 19-year-old former skateboarding prodigy who gave up the sport after her mum died in a car crash and gave Kim a nasty case of grainyflashbackophobia. <\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fa4531d2115_468x338.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"338\" alt=\"Destined for bigger things: Felicity Jones puts in a convincing performance as Kim in Chalet Girl\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Destined for bigger things: Felicity Jones puts in a convincing performance as Kim in Chalet Girl<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In order to support her depressed and grieving dad (engagingly played by comedian Bill Bailey, without the encumbrance of incongruously dramatic flashbacks), Kim gets a job as a chalet girl in an upmarket Austrian resort for a posh British banker (Bill Nighy) and his American trophy wife (Brooke Shields).\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the down-to-earth, gratuitously sarcastic Kim clashes with her entertainingly snobbish co-worker Georgie \u2014 Tamsin Egerton, who\u2019s very funny in the role, even if it is similar to Emily Blunt\u2019s in The Devil Wears Prada.<\/p>\n<p>Behind her stroppy facade, and in between traumatic flashbacks, Kim fancies the rich young son of the banker\u2019s family (played a little too blandly by Ed Westwick from Gossip Girl), but he\u2019s engaged. <\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c781aaca373_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"All star cast: The film also features Tamsin Egerton and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All star cast: The film also features Tamsin Egerton and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Will she attract her man, get upwardly mobile and turn snowboarding champ in time to save her family\u2019s fortunes with a big cash prize? You won\u2019t be surprised at the answer. Tom Williams\u2019s script doesn\u2019t dare to depart from formula.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though director Phil Traill never allows the pace to drag and mostly avoids the crassness that made his Sandra Bullock comedy All About Steve such a stinker, the snowboarding sequences are lame and much too obviously involve a body double.<\/p>\n<p>Still, some of Kim\u2019s backchat is enjoyably smart, and Ms Jones is cute and sympathetic enough to slalom over the cracks in the script.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect a British romcom as funny as Four Weddings or Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary; this is more of a corny, undemanding romp along the lines of Bend It Like Beckham. <br \/>But it is feelgood fun and\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to report that Ms Jones remains fresh, pretty and talented.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fa4531d2115_468x338.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-1367466\/Chalet-Girl-Its-Four-Weddings-latest-British-romcom-fun-frolic-snow.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Chalet Girl: It's no Four Weddings but the latest British romcom is a fun frolic in the snow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chalet Girl: It&#8217;s no Four Weddings but the latest British romcom is a fun frolic in the snow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 8:35 AM on 18th March 2011 Verdict: Fluffy British romcom Rating: Three years ago, the little-seen picture Flashbacks Of A Fool led me to rhapsodise about the \u2018fresh, pretty and talented\u2019 newcomer Felicity Jones; but it\u2019s taken until now for our film industry to find her the role that will make her a star.\u00a0 It\u2019s arrived with Chalet Girl, a fluffy little romcom that could have been better, but will do nicely until something more daring comes along. Jones \u2014 in real life a 27-year-old Oxford English graduate \u2014 is delightful as Kim, a 19-year-old former skateboarding prodigy who gave up the sport after her mum died in a car crash and gave Kim a nasty case of grainyflashbackophobia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chalet Girl: It&#039;s no Four Weddings but the latest British romcom is a fun frolic in the snow - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/chalet-girl-its-no-four-weddings-but-the-latest-british-romcom-is-a-fun-frolic-in-the-snow\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chalet Girl: It&#039;s no Four Weddings but the latest British romcom is a fun frolic in the snow - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 8:35 AM on 18th March 2011 Verdict: Fluffy British romcom Rating: Three years ago, the little-seen picture Flashbacks Of A Fool led me to rhapsodise about the \u2018fresh, pretty and talented\u2019 newcomer Felicity Jones; but it\u2019s taken until now for our film industry to find her the role that will make her a star.\u00a0 It\u2019s arrived with Chalet Girl, a fluffy little romcom that could have been better, but will do nicely until something more daring comes along. 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