While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.
A chirpy, tween-skewing, snowboarding-themed romantic comedy.
– Leslie Felperin,
Variety,
7 Mar 2011
fresh:
The dialogue is more sensible than the plotting, allowing us to forgive the film's more serious trespasses.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
16 Mar 2011
rotten:
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.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
11 Oct 2011
rotten:
Jones 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.