Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Holiday

DVD review from The Movie Snob

The Holiday (B). In my opinion, romantic comedy is very difficult to pull off, so The Holiday's "B" is a very good grade coming from me. Cameron Diaz plays Amanda, a hard-charging entrepreneur living in L.A. who is so emotionally repressed that she hasn't cried since she was 15. Kate Winslet is Iris, a British newspaper writer who is emotionally destroyed when the man she loves gets engaged to another woman. On the spur of the moment, the two find each other through a home-exchange website and decide to swap houses for the Christmas holiday. Diaz meets Graham (Jude Law); Winslet meets Miles (Jack Black). Romantic-comedy hijinks ensue. I would pick some nits -- at 2 hours and 18 minutes, it is way too long, and there are some draggy scenes that should have been trimmed. Although I believe that Jack Black is one of the comedic geniuses of our time, he is a fish out of water in this picture. Still, on the whole, I quite enjoyed it.

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