The Holiday Review

Every Christmas needs a heart-warming yet snow-tinged romcom to warm the cockles on the cold nights. And this year "The Holiday" is that movie. The film stars Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as unlucky in love ladies who swap homes for the holidays in a bid to escape their disastrous love lives. So Kate head heads to LA while Cameron moves into a small rural cottage in deepest, darkest Surrey. However, after all the usual fish-out-of-water gags, the romance sets in as Jack Black and Jude Law show their respective faces and sweep the forlorn pair off their feet.

Despite some rather cheesy moments "The Holiday" works fine as a fairly entertaining yet disposable romantic comedy. Kate and Cameron are entertaining while Law is suitably suave while wooing Diaz. However Black though doesn't convince that he's totally cut out for this sort of role - maybe the fact that "The Holiday" was released to close to "Tenacious D" goes against him. Also it goes without say that director Nancy Myers should have tried to cut down the 135 minutes running time while her portrayal of ye olde England is rose-tinted and twee at best (when exactly did it last snow at Christmas?).

That said if you're looking for something to cuddle up to in a bid to escape the weather and avoid the masses of last minutes Christmas shoppers then "The Holiday" is an ok way to while away a couple of hours.