I really liked Amelie, cause Audrey Tatou was so perfect as the quirky lead, so I was interested in this movie with her in it:

It's about this social climber hottie, Irene (Audrey Tatou), who was about to net a rather large catch at the start of the movie, a wealthy, lonely old man. On her birthday, she met this guy, Jean (Gad Elmaleh) who works as a bartender in the hotel Irene was staying in. Through a twist of circumstances, she thought he was a rich guy, who smokes asspansive cigars with tobacco leaves grown with cocoa. They totally got it on and the next morning, she left, just like that. Jean sighed, and moved on with his life.

A year later, she was back, in the same hotel. Old guy finally gave her the stone, and she thought she was set for life. She was back in the same hotel, and met up with the same 'rich' guy, same time, same place. And through another carefully placed coincidence found only in cliche chick flicks, the old guy saw them getting it on in the bar. And she was dumped on her birthday. Calculative Irene immediately packed her bags and decided to move on to the next big catch, Jean. Armed with her pitiful "I left everything for you" line, she moves in.

Jean, of course, said nothing. The truth came crashing down hard on her in the most embarrassing way possible - getting caught in bed in an empty hotel suite unpaid for, next to the hotel bartender. By a family with little kids.

She dumped him.

He, however, was smitten and followed her, and totally creeped out a potential catch by stalking them on a date. Irene, furious, decided to bleed him dry, clearing out his entire savings, bonds, shares, and pension plan in one day. You kinda want to slap the guy to his senses, take him by the shoulders and shake him upside down. At that point, the movie got rather too chick-flicky for even me.

After she dumped him for the second time, Jean was left to foot the ridiculous hotel bill which he couldn't pay. And that was how he became, as my friend put it, an accidental gigolo. Irene and Jean met, through another fleet of coincidences, each entertaining their sugar daddy/mommy while totally getting it on with each other. Irene was all approvy-like and even thought him the trades of social ladder climbing.

And then she fell in love.

I suppose I've said too much about the movie. Happy ending? What do you think? :p

Priceless was a cute movie and rather likeable. However, it did not make me smile the way Amelie did. I did not feel the chemistry between the two leads and when they kiss, I kept thinking how weird it is for actors to have to make out with their colleagues. It did not set off fireworks or made my heart ache with hopeless romanticisms :p

Next!

Au revoir!