High school grad Grace (Selena Gomez), boring stepsister Meg (Leighton Meester) and Texas perky best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) embark on the vacation of a lifetime, which begins with them slumming around Paris as part of a tsunami-paced bus tour before Grace gets mistaken for Cordelia Winthrop Scott, a British heiress, and they traipse off to Monte Carlo for fun, fashion and romance.
The movie has all of the hallmarks of a girly teen fantasy in the Disney-Nickelodeon mode: the twin/lookalike identity dilemma, poor girls dazzled by glitz and glamour, meet-cute love set against the postcard montage with the poppy soundtrack —
This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2011.