Review: The Holiday

Director : Nancy Meyers
Main Cast : Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Rufus Sewell

Supposed to be a nice little family-friendly romantic comedy made for the holiday season, about two women on opposite sides of the Atlantic swapping houses for Christmas. In fact it turned out to be a dreadful film.



The worst mistake made was having two separately independent storylines. If ever it were possible, it made the film feel both too short AND too long at the same time! You are sat there in the cinema, PRAYING for the film to end, looking at your watch every 5 seconds or so. However, each half of the film is given so little time to have any sense of development of plot that it leaves it feeling rather hollow.

A shame though, considering the likes of Winslet and Law, both underused and a waste of their respective talents, and though I am a BIG fan of Jack Black, I honestly think that he was horribly miscast and proves that no way can he repeat Jim Carrey and do "serious" roles. Don't get me wrong though, I do enjoy the occasional schmoozy holiday romantic comedy, and really liked Love Actually, and not Crap Actually which The Holiday is.