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Notwithstanding the fact that this movie features a Dirty Dancing -inspired fantasy sequence nine years after Crazy, Stupid, Love made fun of the exact same fantasy in a much smarter way, there are simply too many out-loud verbalizations of the “stuff that always happens” in romantic comedies in Holidate that its script decides to effectively duplicate without adding a twist or really even an acknowledgment that it’s doing itself.
When Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey (who certainly look the part as rom-com leads) do get to go full rom-com, such as with a Dirty Dancing lift at New Year's Eve or the inevitable public declaration, they have plenty of chemistry to make the individual moments work.
“Holidate” nods more than a few times to some classics but also pulls off a slightly intergenerational treat with Sloane and Jack riffing on the Ryan Gosling version of Patrick Swayze’s “Dirty Dancing” scene from “Crazy Stupid Love.”
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed by Billy Wilder
influenced Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)
Plot Characters Themes
Some narrative nonsense involving a murder and an F.B.I. mole sets the scene for both Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Jackson to don fat suits, fake breasts and plus-size women’s clothes and hide out in a girls performing-arts high school, just as Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon insinuated themselves into an all-girls band in “Some Like It Hot.”
In this cross between Beverly Hills Cop and Some Like it Hot, Turner's in drag again, along with his stroppy hip-hop son, staking out a dormitory at the Georgia Girls School for the Arts.
Doubtfire and Dame Edna Everage, not to mention Josephine and Daphne in Some Like It Hot.
In the ongoing roster of cross-dressing comedies, 2000's " Big Momma's House " was no "Some Like It Hot," "Tootsie," or even "Mrs.
“Holidate” nods more than a few times to some classics but also pulls off a slightly intergenerational treat with Sloane and Jack riffing on the Ryan Gosling version of Patrick Swayze’s “Dirty Dancing” scene from “Crazy Stupid Love.”
Y sí, esta banda sonora mezcla precisas elecciones de hip-hop (desde el clásico sexy de Shoop –que salió el mismo año en que Deadpool se estrenó en solitario con The Circle Chase– hasta la violentísima X Gon’ Give it to Ya de DMX) con el riff de saxofón clásico de Carelles Whisper de George Michael y la increíble elección de Calendar Girl para uno de los montajes romántico-sexuales más logrados del cine de acción.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Directed by Vince Gilligan
influenced by Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Characters
Rewatch the 2008 premiere, see the inaugural Jesse Pinkman: haircut like some boy band’s token skatepunk, fashion sense out of Malibu’s Most Wanted , Paul’s kindergarten eyes aging his twentysomething meth cook teenward.
“Human beings aren’t meant to be alone on holidays,” Jackson says urgently, with big Love Actually “at Christmas you tell the truth” energy.
Still, you're not doing yourself a huge favor by queuing up John Whitesell's Holidate (now playing on Netflix) and hoping for a Love Actually or Set It Up or even A Christmas Prince , which is unforgivably bad but somehow undeniably, unbelievably watchable.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed by Larry Charles
influenced by Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Characters
Without the exhilarating mix of high and low culture, and the real, unsuspecting interviewees that characterized Da Ali G Show, Cohen's daft youth reporter came off as just another clueless faux-black poser along the lines of Jamie Kennedy in Malibu's Most Wanted.
Set in Chicago (but shot in Atlanta), the film achieves a generic cleanliness in the hands of director John Whitesell (“Deck the Halls,” two “Big Momma’s House” sequels).
Holidate might not be on the same level of Home Alone , Elf, or National Lampoon’s Xmas Vacation but there’s enough here worthy of repeat viewings.
Though the film marks the official launch of an expansive Netflix holiday slate that also includes sequels to Vanessa Hudgens’ cheesy romance The Princess Switch and Kurt Russell’s family adventure The Christmas Chronicles , Holidate is more in line with the bawdy ethos of Office Christmas Party or A Bad Moms Christmas —at least until it fully embraces the rom-com hokiness it lampoons at the start.
Though the film marks the official launch of an expansive Netflix holiday slate that also includes sequels to Vanessa Hudgens’ cheesy romance The Princess Switch and Kurt Russell’s family adventure The Christmas Chronicles , Holidate is more in line with the bawdy ethos of Office Christmas Party or A Bad Moms Christmas —at least until it fully embraces the rom-com hokiness it lampoons at the start.
In a narrative credited to writers Craig Titley (See Spot Run) and controversial Troma refugee James Gunn, the film is an in-jokey recapitulation and unnecessary modification of the source series.
If you want a raunchy will-they-won’t-they rom-com in which two attractive people try to keep their relationship platonic, I’d suggest avoiding “Holidate” and watching Lesley Headland’s “Sleeping With Other People” instead.
I mean, this isn’t exactly “Titanic” or “The Great Gatsby.”
Though the film marks the official launch of an expansive Netflix holiday slate that also includes sequels to Vanessa Hudgens’ cheesy romance The Princess Switch and Kurt Russell’s family adventure The Christmas Chronicles , Holidate is more in line with the bawdy ethos of Office Christmas Party or A Bad Moms Christmas —at least until it fully embraces the rom-com hokiness it lampoons at the start.