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Posted on Fri, Jul 1, 2011 : 12:47 p.m.

'Monte Carlo': a bad trip

By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Monte Carlo
Opens today at Rave, Quality 16, Brighton
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: D+

Selena Gomez is the latest fabricated singer-actress-media conglomerate to be released from the Mouseketeer factory, and, appropriately, with her oversized eyes and disproportionate head, she looks rather like a living, breathing Bratz doll. Farm-raised like veal on a steady diet of Disney Channel sitcom treacle, she’s only a vaguely passable little actress, but looks like Bette Davis when stacked up next to stablemate Miley Cyrus. As a rite of passage for this sort of starlet’s career, she’s been assigned the kind of princess fantasy travelogue that once would have starred Haley Mills.

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