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Last Holiday
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexual reference
Starring
Queen Latifah,
LL Cool J,
Timothy Hutton,
Giancarlo Esposito,
Alicia Witt,
Gérard Depardieu,
Jane Adams,
and
Emeril Lagasse
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives a small life tucked inside big dreams. When this shy cookware salesperson for a New Orleans retail outlet learns her days are numbered, she throws caution to the wind and embarks on a dream holiday vacation to a grand resort in Europe. (Paramount)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
|
Comedy
|
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jeffrey Price
Peter S. Seaman
J.B. Priestley
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Wayne Wang
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 2, 2006
Theatrical: January 13, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Queen Latifah gives a spectacular performance in this hugely enjoyable wish-fulfillment fantasy.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A movie that takes advantage of the great good nature and warmth of Queen Latifah, and uses it to transform a creaky old formula into a comedy that is just plain lovable.

75
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
We may know exactly where we're going, but the journey is so much fun, all but the most peevish audience members will find it impossible to complain.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's too bad there's so little of LL Cool J as the secret object of Georgia's fantasies. He'd make a funny, nimble, sexy romantic lead with just a bit more screen time.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Latifah's performance and the film's gentle heart should prove enough to win over even the most churlish.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Director Wayne Wang and his screenwriters sometimes ape ''Pretty Woman." But Latifah's obvious forebear is Pearl Bailey, who was just as regal and straight-up.

70
Village Voice
Matt Singer
The most surprisingly satisfying Hollywood comedy in ages.

63
TV Guide
Ken Fox
There are a number of excruciating moments that are almost too silly to mention.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Last Holiday floats along on the broad shoulders of one of our most able dramatic comedians. Without her, it would sag like a punctured souffle.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Predictable but enjoyable comedy, which succeeds largely on the charm of its star.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The movie clichés are bearable mainly because the cast rises above the formulaic material. There are also some bona fide laughs to be had once the setting switches to a luxurious resort in the Czech Republic.

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is content to be a kind of middling expression of human decency: It's never either terribly funny or terribly dramatic, but Latifah's quiet solidity and common sense root it in ways that larger, louder pictures never achieve.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Queen Latifah finally gets a vehicle that gives her formidable talents and expansive spirit plenty of blooming room.

60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Watching Last Holiday, I kept waiting for the moment I could decree the movie truly terrible, the instant I could comfortably put my pen and notebook away and give it up for lost. But that moment never came, partly because I never fail to take pleasure in Latifah, and partly because I couldn't shake the eerie feeling that the movie I was watching was something of a ghost from another time.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
This harmless bit of fluff lacks the element of surprise but is not without random charming moments supplied by its incandescent star.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Queen Latifah's energy may be winning and her self-reliance message righteous, but Last Holiday grossly overextends her credit

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A chaste and tepid remake of a 1950 British comedy.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A thoroughly mediocre dramedy.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Once again, Queen Latifah survives some remarkably clumsy filmmaking. More than survives; she manages to prevail.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Director Wayne Wang stumbles through the awkward script without finding its shape or its tone, steering it toward maturity while the script falls back into slapstick sports gags and adolescent social politics.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
For a film ostensibly about how life means nothing without adventure and unpredictability, Last Holiday all feels as preordained as the film-ending Emeril cameo.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
I can tell you in two words why to see this movie, which is otherwise an unspecial Cinderella farce...and those two words are: Queen Latifah.

40
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Likable as she is, Latifah can't overcome a tortured mistaken-identity plot, buffoonery on the ski slopes, and enough saccharine dialogue to induce shock.

40
Variety
Joe Leydon
Most successful when it is engaging, not uproarious. Glossy amusement is an updated remake of a well-regarded 1950 Brit comedy-drama starring Alec Guinness, improbably retrofitted as a star vehicle for Queen Latifah.

40
Empire
Anna Smith
Money can buy you happiness in this inferior remake - although its makeover storyline may please fans of "The Princess Diaries" et al.

30
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
If you really want to live life to the fullest, step one is to avoid wasting an hour and a half of your life in a theater showing Last Holiday.

30
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
As witless as it is formulaic.


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