Movie warning

In case you've been interested in seeing The Holiday, please let me advise you to think again. It's bad. It's so bad. I can't even believe there is a movie featuring Kate Winslet that I dislike so violently, but there is. The only person who acquits himself decently in this movie is Jude Law, of all people. He's very warm, funny, and likeable. He should abandon his eternal character actor quest and just start starring in every romantic comedy and accept that it is his destiny. The rest of them are just kind of idiots. In what universe are we supposed to believe that Kate Winslet is pining hopelessly for Rufus Sewell? The Rufus Sewell of Dangerous Beauty, possibly, but not the strange Rufus Sewell of modern times, the one who always plays a cad or a murderer and looks like he's had a botched eye job. Poor Kate. This was just not a good part for her. Cameron Diaz is ridiculous. She was as plastic as Jude Law was genuine and engaging. Jack Black tried, it seemed, to scale back the Jack Blackness, but it's impossible for him, I think. Luckily I think Jack Black is pretty funny, and I enjoyed his singing of the movie scores in the video store. But so many parts of this movie made me cringe or want to nod off because it just dragged on forever. I had high hopes for it despite its generally poor reviews, including my sister's, who warned me that it was terrible, not only because of Kate but because Nancy Meyers also wrote and directed what I think is one of the best romantic comedies of the last ten years, Something's Gotta Give. That movie is better than The Holiday by leaps and bounds, almost unfathomably. So please, spare yourself. Other than making me want to go to England when it's snowing, this movie was a giant waste of time. Skip it.