Up & Coming 16 March 2011: Chalet Girl Press Screening [Movie Review]

Momentum Pictures, Chalet Girl: starring Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Tamsin Egerton, Ken Duken, Sophia Bush, Bill Bailey, Brooke Shields, Bill Nighy

19 year old Kim Matthews is a cool, witty child skateboarding prodigy who gave up her skill when her mum died in a car crash. Kim works in a fast food joint and takes care of her depressed dad [Bill Bailey].

She joins a posh catering agency to make good money and ends up working in Austria, for the Madsens - a rich family with a chalet in theAlps [Bill Nighy and Brooke Shields family]. She struggles to connect with bourgeois and that includes her room mate/senior employee Georgie. She finds friends outside in the Alps as she ventures onto a snowboard hitting the slopes reigniting her skating passion .

In a Romeo & Juliet style plot she and Jonny Madsen [Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick] fall for each other, but Jonny is engaged thanks to his mad mother [Brooke Shields] who engineered the relationship will not let Jonny out of it.

To distract herself and make some more money along the way, Kim enters the Roxy challenge.

The Roxy Snowboard Competition

Will she win the $25,000 prize for her snowboarding and will she win the guy?

Chalet Girl is your typical lighthearted chick flick comedy with some thrilling skateboarding action and stunning scenery thrown in.

I rate it 2.5 out of 5

CHALET GIRL IN UK CINEMAS 16TH MARCH 2011