Shameful

Rating: 1/10 (2 January 2007)

OK, i do not know where to start on this.
Yesterday (New Years Day) i went and saw the very shoddy, predictably clichéd tweenager body swap 'comedy' "its a boy girl thing" it was dreadful. Today we go and see "The Holiday". "no way can this be worse than the movie i saw yesterday, it has an amazing cast" i said. Oh my f***in god how wrong was i?
2 hours 18 painfully goddawful minutes. A movie with a story this straightforward and simple does not justify that gargantuas running time. That it has a script so riddled with forced exposition does not help. Now i'm not expecting a masterpiece but c'mon!
The film has a cast to die for! My mind boggles at why they'd all sign on to this generic mush. Each and everyone of them looks embarrassed. Their individual talents as performers are shamefully wasted.
Kate Winslet pointlessly plays air guitar to JET, Cameron Diaz pointlessly bellows out The Killers. No, no, no, no, no. STOP, enough! i wasn't laughing because i was too busy rolling my eyes and sighing with frustration. it isn't funny, its humiliating.
This is sledgehammer story-telling. None of the dialogue feels natural, its all spoon-fed to the actors and the audience. We know how we are supposed to be feeling, but we don't feel it.
If you're after a romantic comedy, please stick with "When Harry met Sally" it really is infinitely better, and considering its story's set over many years, its a great deal shorter as well.
A real waste of some decent actors, and a real waste of two and a half hours. Avoid if you have a soul worth saving.