Jack Black just can't pull of being a love interest

Rating: 6/10 (1 October 2007)

Jack Black does have one very nice moment in The Holiday -- it is very early in the opening scenes when he's at his keyboard and glances up at the camera -- his hair is fluffy and he looks wistful and vulnerable and altogether adorable, and for a minute you believe he just might pull it off. But then comes the rest of the movie. No matter how hard he tries, he has absolutely no chemistry with Kate Winslet -- what's with all of those pecks on her face, anyway?? I found him to be totally unbelievable as a love interest for her. Too bad, because she really deserved one after dumping that daft twit she had pined after for three years... I think that Jack is much better being his loud, raunchy, uproarious self and leaving the loving to Jude Law.