Holiday Inn (1942)

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (0) | DVD (6)

Crosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor.

December 5, 2008 Full Review

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Loaded with a wealth of songs, it's meaty, not too kaleidoscopic and yet closely knit for a compact 100 minutes of tiptop filmusical entertainment.

November 27, 2007 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

Holiday Inn offers a reason for celebration not printed in red ink on the calendar.

August 8, 2006

Theodore Strauss

New York Times

Top Critic

The Irving Berlin score, including 'Easter Parade' and 'Let's Say It with Firecrackers' (which gives Fred his best moment) makes up for the thin story.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

One of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire's most enjoyable and most commercially popular musicals, featuring Irving Berlin's iconic, Oscar-winning ballad, White Christmas.

June 4, 2012 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Classic musical with some controversial material.

January 2, 2011 Full Review

Scott G. Mignola

Common Sense Media

Not the best film for either of the film's stars, but Astaire proves that he can dance even without Ginger.

December 5, 2008 Full Review

Fran Hortop

Film4

The film's highlight is a bang-up July 4th 'Let's Say It with Firecrackers' that finds Astaire in fine form.

November 27, 2007 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Want more? Stir in the first singing of Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' and 'Happy Holidays.'

October 25, 2004 | Comment (1)

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

True to type, Crosby plays nice and Astaire shallow… The story writes itself, careful never to get in the way of big production numbers for every holiday on the calendar.

December 26, 2003 Full Review

Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films Guide

Call it old-fashioned or old Hollywood fluff, Holiday Inn is a sweet, pleasant slice of another time in pop entertainment.

December 8, 2002 Full Review

Christopher Varney

Film Threat

Great songs and stars and a pretty good script, too

August 26, 2002

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

One of Astaire's low points, but with a sensational 4th of July dance number.

August 22, 2002

Nell Minow

Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Despite not being the success it could have been, this can still inspire a festive glow.

April 18, 2001 Full Review

Ali Barclay

BBC

Holiday Inn, is, of course, filled with the kind of pretty Christmas songs and picture-postcard scenes of snow and horse-drawn sleighs that make for beloved holiday movies. But there's also some darkness lurking here.

January 1, 2000 Full Review

MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

• 1. Jim Hardy: I'll take a bowl of..coffee.
  – Submitted by Liz W (7 months ago)
• 1. Ted Hanover: I like it here... with you and Linda. [to Hardy]
  2. Jim Hardy: answers: And we love having you. When are you leaving?
  3. Francois: How can I stop him sir when I don't know which way is Connecticut!
  4. Jim Hardy: A drink? Boy you were fractured!
  5. Mamie: [about winning Linda back] You could melt her heart right down to butter, if you'd only turn on the heat!
  6. Linda Mason: You sound sweet, but you don't make sense.
  – Submitted by rick b (14 months ago)
• 1. Ted Hanover: A gentle smile often breeds a kick in the pants.
  2. Jim Hardy: What brings you here on this bright and uninviting day?
  3. Ted Hanover: He always has that look! It doesn't mean anything emotionally. It has something to do with his... liver.
  4. Ted Hanover: Well, I love Jim too... but let's not get too chummy.
  5. Jim Hardy: Right now I've got the ledger in an iron lung.
  6. Danny Reid: How'd he get that far in five minutes?
  7. Danny Reid: The world can't do this to us!
  – Submitted by rick b (14 months ago)
• 1. Ted Hanover: It's going to be easy - like peeling a turtle.
  – Submitted by Brigita S (18 months ago)

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