It's 18 years since the release of 'The Holiday', and I gave it a rewatch on a whim. Still think it's an imperfect, but cute and warm film.
Still can maybe suspend disbelief enough to enjoy it when it comes to the usual rom-com tropes, even for the fact that someone who edits movie trailers for a living can get filthy rich enough to afford a huge Hollywood mansion, heck even for the overall house swap with literally zero vetting thing. But for the life of me, I cannot buy for a second that someone would just casually take off and leave their dog to the care of a complete stranger, and a little part of my brain keeps judging all of these people for it.
Even so, I still feel that the romance between Kate Winslet and Jack Black, having them bonding over earnest convos and a mutual love for cinema, is by far the best, most interesting and wholesome part that carries the movie.
