Excellent Movie

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2007)

Many people have told me that they think the movie The Holiday is a terrible "chick flick". I happen to disagree with them. Each time I watch this movie it is just as pleasurable as the last. The Holiday is an excellent movie and will captivate your heart, jar you for a couple tears, and make you laugh all at the same time.
The Holiday is about two women, one living in Los Angeles and the other in London, who are fed up with their love lives, disgusted and disappointed with men, and looking to get away from home. Coincidentally, these two women meet up over the internet on a home exchange website and they decide to swap homes and cities for a couple weeks over Christmas. Each of these women lived in totally different lifestyles, but to them the switch was a refreshing change of scenery. Both of them left their homes over Christmas to get away from love gone terribly wrong, but on their vacations they run into friends and family of the person they swapped homes with and fall into love all over again. To their relief this love brings them happiness and enjoyment, not sorrow and disappointment.
I love this movie because it appeals precisely to my interests and personality. Instead of horror movies with frightening plots, I enjoy movies with an emotional storyline; movies that appeal to my heart and will bring out a more soft, kind, caring, and loving person in myself. The Holiday showed me the joy of love and how beautiful it is. However, I understand that most guys in our realistic world today do not enjoy "chick flicks" and love stories, or are afraid to admit it if they do. Guys that like movies such as The Holiday are thought of as "softies" or "unmanly", and at times made fun of for enjoying such a foolish pleasure. Despite this opinion towards guys like me, I still love watching this movie and will always regard it as one of my favorites.
Everyone that watches The Holiday will not be able help themselves from laughing, smiling, and crying through this incredible movie. The Holiday is a touching film; one that will take you by the heart, stir you up, and make you a better person inside. You will not be able to help but feel the happiness and excitement of love that is presented in this movie. Everyone longs to be loved by someone in their lives, and with true love comes a happiness that you cannot find anywhere else. The Holiday takes you down a road of frustrated love gone wrong, to a spectacular finish of true love in its fullest entirety. Human nature is based around love and the beauty, prosperity, and enjoyment that sprouts from it. This movie defines how incredible true love really is, and everyone will enjoy this feeling from watching The Holiday.