"Holiday: The Romantic Comedy"

Watching "Holiday" is like waking up thinking it's Christmas morning only to find out it's actually Flag Day and you still have six months until Christmas and woke up on a lousy holiday instead.

Sure there are some nice aspects to Flag Day. I mean who don't like a flag? But by and large the holiday pretty sucks and you wish it was Christmas.

I'm a sucker for a romantic comedy when it's done right. And Nancy Meyers has done it right before (I find "What Women Want" a great romantic comedy and "Something's Gotta Give" is not bad).

So enter "The Holiday." Great charming cast, good director, I'm ready to go. And then it's bad. Like almost unwatchably bad until about an hour and 15 minutes in.

And then a curious thing happens.

The storyline with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law finally gets interesting and you think, "Dude, I wish that developed 45 minutes earlier." And you finally decide not to walk out and you're ready to see it through.

Then the movie switches back to Kate Winslet and you think, "I wonder what Cameron Diaz and Jude Law are up to." Then it finally switches back to them and you think, "Oh. Well what happened with Kate Winslet and Jack Black."

So then you think, "This is funny. I'm more interested in whatever they're not showing me than what they are." And then you think, "The old guy better not die, because that would be really annoying."

This movie was really annoying. Even though the old guy doesn't die. After seeing the movie I caught the Slate.com headline for their review of the movie which called it the Whitest Movie of the Year. That made me laugh and I read the review, which has this accurate gem:

The characters pace and putter around in the story like animals building their nests, and by the time they finally settle down with their mates, we have a grudging affection for them.

It's not like you don't care, it's like you don't want to care. This movie has serious problems.