Surprisingly Good Holiday Movie of the Week

The Holiday.

A real scriptwriter's script, witty and risky (don't worry--it does work out in the end as all good romantic comedies do) and very demanding on the two leading ladies, who spend a lot of time on screen alone. Far better than its previews led me to believe.

Comments

Makayla Steiner said…
Is this the one with Cameron Diaz and Jack Black?
Jennifer said…
Eh, I agree it's not as bad as the trailer would have one believe, but I believe your review is too generous. And that's without adjusting my review to account for American-culture craving while in Taiwan.
Makayla Steiner said…
Uninteresting fact(s):

I have not been able to watch a movie with Cameron Diaz in it since "My Best Friend's Wedding," wherein Michael definitely marries the wrong woman. Yes, yes. Jules cheats, lies, and deserves to be called fungus, but I still wanted Michael to choose her.

and...

the only movie I have seen starring Jack Black is "School of Rock," which I kinda like if I'm in just the right mood.
Christian said…
I found some of the standard tropes a bit strange when I saw it (the fact that the couples had to be segregated somehow into the super hip ones and the slightly nerdy/less awesome ones in some sort of Shakespearean hierarchy was funny) but it did challenge some things in really interesting ways, and all in all was quite fantastic, enough that I asked for and got it for Christmas last year. But I'm also a sucker for good romantic comedies.

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