The Holiday

I’m back. Sorry it took me so long to getting around to doing this review, but if you read my previous blog, then you’ll understand. If you’ve had tooth pains before, then you’ll definitely understand my pain, literally and figuratively.

Well, here I am, sitting in the hospital’s waiting room. My girlfriend, Tandra, had knee surgery today, and the surgeon came in about a half hour ago and told us that she is out and doing great, the operation was a success and now she’s just resting and she just has to heal up.

I’ve been here since seven this morning and I decided that while waiting, it would be the perfect time to watch The Holiday and finally get it out of the way. So, here I am, just finishing up The Holiday and writing my blog in this very comfy armchair in a smelly waiting room (but hey, free danish’s isn’t bad).

So, I began The Holiday and I was completely convinced that I was going to hate it, being that I really don’t care for Jack Black, Jude Law, Cameron Diaz or Kate Winslet. Each of them have made a good film or two, but in my opinion, they’ve made far too many stinkers to completely trust them. But, it did surprise me in the sense where I felt like my time wasn’t completely wasted.

The movie starts out with Iris (Kate Winslet), who lives in Surrey, England, talking about being in love with a man who cheated on her, but she was still going to try, and then the guy she’s in love with announces that he’s engaged to another woman.

It then goes to Amanda (Cameron Diaz) in Los Angeles who is having a similar problem where her boyfriend has cheated on her, so she dumps him and tells everyone that she needs a long vacation.

She goes on a website and finds that Iris’ cottage in Surrey is up for a house swap, so they agree with each other to switch places, a classic switcharoo (which in my opinion, has been done so much it makes me want to barf).

So Amanda meets Graham (Jude Law), who is Iris’ brother, and they fall into a very fast relationship, but she finds it hard to trust him because she’s fresh out of a breakup. But, nevertheless, they still have sex the first night they meet.

Iris meets Miles (Jack Black) and also an old Hollywood writer and they all just become friends and nothing more. Iris and Miles then fall for each other and the rest is history.

The movie was very predictable. Basically, everything is given away in the trailer, and if you’ve seen a movie about couples on a ‘will they, won’t they’ relationship, then you’ll know how it’ll end. The plot was quite lame, the editing felt like it was chopped together in several parts and it just all around felt lazy, like they just decided to slap together a movie as quickly as possible and make some money. It also dragged several times at a whopping two hours and fifteen minutes (far too long for a rom-com).

If you’re looking for something deep, then you may want to see something else, but it’s not bad, not great either. It’s a date movie, that’s about it. It’s the perfect definition of a so-so movie. I give it 5 out of 10.