The Holiday

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2007)

A perfect release during Christmas and New Year season especially when the backdrop and period shown in the movie coincides with Christmas and New Year. I saw this movie because it was a new release, and the show timing matched the time available for me to see another movie immediately after Perfume.
I should compliment the Director - Nancy Meyer who evidently has spent quite a bit of time on the script and churning out dialogues that are precisely written.
The story is about two girls who have been cheated by their lovers and want to get over the depression feeling and get far away from men of their lives - swap houses (one in UK and the other in USA) for 2 weeks through an internet exchange houses website. The two girls are Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet  both look gorgeous. The character of Cameron Diaz has more depth in personality but does not come out fully during the movies  but at times Cameron brings them out. Kate Winslet is a beauty to watch  she has a perfectly beautiful face. It is needless to say that the two girls come across two men and fall in love with them, while trying to forget their past affair. The story unfolds slowly and at times you feel are a better editing would have made this movie more enjoyable. The Director tries to show some  but there are no big hic-ups during the journey of these two girls and as audience you already know the ending, and that is why you loose the charm  or the last punch in the end.
It is a simple, straight forward love story  a time pass, at times clichéd too. Go and see during Christmas time, you might enjoy it with your better half.