112 out of 121 people found the following review helpful:

Don't be a sad and lonely man without feelings or romance...be strong enough to watch this.

Rip from Manchester, 10th May, 2007

An enjoyable film about love and romance, along the lines of 4 Weddings and a Funeral or Love Actually. Some touching moments and quite funny in places. Well acted and well written. Shame that some have termed it a 'chick flick' or 'girl movie', particularly as many romances and love stories and even relationships in the real world, involve men too.

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49 out of 62 people found the following review helpful:

Only for Readers of Heat Magazine!

A Customer from Scotland, 9th April, 2007

My husband insisted we had to see this as soon as it came out in the cinema...what I do for the sake of my marriage! It was so ridiculous that it had me squirming around in my seat. Every character is a cliche right out of grade Z Mills and Boon type schlock. We have Jude Law as dedicated home-loving Daady of two little girls. Cameron Diaz as a high powered film trailer executive--can you really get your mind around that?!! Kate Winslet as the poor thing devastated by a love rat played by Rfus Sewell...and then there's Jack Black...JACK BLACK?!!! What the heck is he doing in this? He looks sweatily uncomforatble throughout..he looks like he was sewn into his trendy duds and that his only comfort was one big motha paycheck at the end of the ordeal. To give you an example of the assinine plot; Jude Law, a total stranger, turns up on the isolated rural doorstep of Cameron Diaz's character at about 1 in the morning, and about 5 minutes later, they're sleeping together, and involved in a totally 'real' relationship...oh please! Kate Winslet's character is utterly tiresome, and the uber-cutesy realtionship she strikes up with the elderly super-star director neighbour is nauseating. The entire mess is so contrived and awful...I guess if will fulfil some people's needs!

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41 out of 45 people found the following review helpful:

OK

Mike H from High Wycombe, England, 8th April, 2007

I like a good rom-com, despite being male, but was a bit disappointed with this one. I know you generally have to suspend disbelief when watching films of the genre, but it's asking rather a lot when the girls live in caricatures of houses - snow-covered cottage & sun-drenched mansion - and the UK scenes are rather cringeworthy with some suspect non-UK dialogue for the English characters. The film seemed to improve a bit as it went along, and its well-over-2-hours length didn't bother me which I suppose says something. For me the LA scenes were the most convincing, but I would have liked to see more of the Jack Black character which was not developed to anything like the extent of the Jude Law one. Recommendation is simple, as follows: If you're a girl - rent it, you'll love it. If you're a bloke - rent it if you fancy Cameron and/or Kate, otherwise avoid.

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30 out of 36 people found the following review helpful:

Already on my 2007 Christmas list!

A Customer from Coventry, England, 4th January, 2007

This film is wonderful! I am quite partial to a good old romantic comedy and knew 'him indoors' wouldn't be dragged to see it. Even I could see from the ad that it looked particularly twee and cheesy so I grabbed my girlie mates and we went just before Christmas. The film was brilliant! I love Cameron Diaz and Jude Law has now knocked Ben Affleck off my number one spot since watching him in Closer and now in this. He is such a perfect gentleman! Kate Winslet portrayed the feeling of unrequited love brilliantly and we could all relate to her (casting my mind back to when Chris Hobson ripped up my Valentines card at school!) We have all been there! A lovely sentimental film along the lines of Love Actually and Bridget Jones. Girls, go see it!

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The Holiday

A Customer from Lancaster, 5th March, 2010

I loved this film, so funny and warm Cameron Diaz great actress.

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The Holiday

David Muntzer from Solihull, 28th February, 2010

A film to watch if you want to chill out. The plot is not novel but interesting. Kate Winslet is good, Cameron Diaz by comparison is unsubtle and dramatic, Law is smooth as usual and Black is an unlikely romantic figure and lacked credibility - he does zany/freaky much better. Wallach, a touching last role?

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Most contrived dialogue ever

Bangs from , 27th February, 2010

OK - this one was for my wife and she seemed to enjoy it when she was not dozing (arguably the best state in which to view this torpor - fest). I can (almost) forgive the contrived circumstances - that's what rom-coms are for - but the dialogue was just awful: characters not just talking about themselves but talking about themselves talking about themselves. Why do so many American scriptwriters start a line with 'So what I am thinking is...'? Invariably the line that follows shows anything but a degree of thinking. A special mention must also go to the sets, which looked like Christopher Robin had vomited on the cover of a chocolate box. On the positive side, there was a good cast and I generally enjoyed the scenes with the retired scriptwriter, but otherwise this is the story of a strong cast's brave struggle to make a contrived dialogue bearable.

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the holiday

madmare from , 25th February, 2010

Excellent film, love Jude Law -

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