Nice, and feel good

Rating: 7/10 (4 February 2007)

What happens when two heartbroken women swap their lives (or most of it) for a holiday season? It would predictably be almost like flowing with the course of other's life and to revel in the little or large pleasures the life of another person would bring. To that extent 'Holiday' is full of rather predictable outcomes with Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet both eventually finding some love and some solace for their broken hearts. That the final outcome of their foreign ventures has been left to the audience's imagination helps the viewer focus on the 'Holiday' aspect of the experience and not look beyond.
'Holiday' succeeds is in making the audience feel good with a Christmas time story of finding love away from home - and in the process may be finding another home. The script's unwillingness to explore possibilities that would have been - if the writer and director were willing to explore outcomes less predictable - means that the movie ends up being a typical Hollywood feel good comedy. But then trying outcomes less predictable would be depriving 'Holiday' of its essence of being a light love comedy. In all, it is a good movie for a weekend relaxation but not the one that would excite a critic's mind.