What We Did on Our Holiday Reviews
January 9, 2017
What We Did On Our Holiday just doesn't do or say that much, and what it does accomplish is fine at best. Oh, we should all be nicer to each other? That's the whole point of this disjointed thing? Yeah. OK.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
July 13, 2015
Do we want to spend 95 minutes of our summer holiday watching a film about a young, squabbling, dysfunctional British family on a sham trip? Yes, we do.
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| Original Score: 3/4
July 10, 2015
It's not what you'd call "major" cinema, but it's a breezy entertainment, particularly if you're a fan of one or more of the cast members.
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| Original Score: 3/4
July 9, 2015
A damp-eyed comedy whose banal title isn't the only thing needing improvement.
July 9, 2015
Underfoot is a cast of young kids given too many cutesy moments and one-liners. In the middle of it all are actors like Rosamund Pike and David Tennant.
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| Original Score: 1/5
July 9, 2015
Engaging but slight.
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| Original Score: 3/5
July 9, 2015
There are a few amusing moments and flashes of charm but this Holiday is an uneven trip, with underwritten adult characters and a strange third act involving a poke at misguided social services.
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| Original Score: 2/4
July 9, 2015
What We Did On Our Holiday sets up a sturdy comic scenario and then proceeds to head in another direction altogether-one that's nearly impossible to anticipate, making the film much more of a goofy delight than would have seemed likely at the outset.
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| Original Score: B
July 7, 2015
Jones and Connolly have terrific chemistry, particularly as Lottie works through the fact that adults encourage dishonesty and lying when it suits their own needs, and that secrets are more pervasive than openness.
June 27, 2015
The underlying, redundant, and underwhelming theme of the film is the pursuit of family unity at all costs.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
February 18, 2015
The supporting cast will delight fans of British television.
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| Original Score: 4/5
September 28, 2014
There are plenty of close-to-the-bone belly laughs as the estranged McLeods hit the road for Scotland, after which an unexpectedly morbid twist takes us into altogether darker territory ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
September 28, 2014
A shambolic farcical twist is engineered that makes no practical, emotional or even comic sense.
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| Original Score: 2/5
September 26, 2014
You deserve some sort of honour if, as a creator of comedy, you devise a technique so solid that it can translate from TV to film without losing any of its personality
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| Original Score: 4/5
September 26, 2014
The film is funny, if predictable, about such subjects as motorway traffic jams, sibling rivalry and family feuding.
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| Original Score: 3/5
September 25, 2014
Veryimpressive and likable stuff.
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| Original Score: 5/5
September 25, 2014
Is there any more tired device for illustrating growing attraction than a montage sequence where the characters make funny faces for photographs?
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| Original Score: 2/5
September 25, 2014
This garbled and nonsensical Brit farce has apparently been inspired by Kids Say The Funniest Things.
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| Original Score: 1/5
September 25, 2014
Despite a second act lull, Connolly convinces in this cute and charming comedy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
September 25, 2014
We all have our off days, and our supremely off days, and now I, too, have learned An Important Life Lesson: you can have disastrously off days too.