Vile and waste-of-time

Rating: 3/10 (16 April 2007)

Now, okay, I'm not a fan of the romcom, but THIS is one of the worst example of the genre. "The Holiday" has everything that I hate about the romcom: Irritating submissive female characters - check. One-dimensional male characters - check lack of script - check cutesy kids and/or animals: check to BOTH!!
The Holiday even manages to throw some Christmas schmaltz into it as well,leaving one feeling slightly nauseous. Cameron Diaz overacts in every scene, Jack Black tries hard to break out of his "cute but funny guy" shtick and Jude Law and Kate Winslet are left with one-dimensional characters that are hardly sympathetic.
The only character that stands out is Eli Wallach's. Really, I think Mr Wallach thought he was in another film entirely.
A complete waste of time and money.