"Death by Chocolate - The Movie"

Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2010)

Kate Winslet,Jude Law,Cameron Diaz,Jack Black,four names right at the top of my "Over-rated and over-familiar" list I'm afraid,so if "The Holiday" was going to work for me it was going to have to be out of the ordinary if not exceptional,but I'm sorry to report that it wasn't even the former and was an extraordinarily long way from being the latter. Fairy Tale England meets Fairy Tale America.Fifteen years ago Hugh Grant and Andie McDowall would have been it it.By 2006 the formula was wearing just a bit thin. Too-cute kids,a too-cute oldster,heavy layers of sentiment, this is "Death by Chocolate - The Movie". No believable characters,a plot 11 year - olds would have trouble with,a rose - coloured vision of comfy Waspism that is as soporific as a barrel of "Ovaltine". For believers in the Tooth Fairy only.