Even though this whole year was a holiday due to the pandemic, the people have not lost special feelings for the holiday season of the year. And to cash on that, Netflix brought us the romantic comedy based on the loneliness people face during this holiday season.
Sloane, a middle aged woman, finds herself alone in holiday season and turns bitter towards her family while Jackson seems desperate to be with someone on a holiday season. They both randomly meet at a mall and decide to be a holiday date for each other, hence calling it ‘Holidate’. The movie then goes on about the various dates they have over a year and how they eventually develop feelings for each other.
It would be a huge mistake to say that Netflix brought us a 'new' rom com. The appropriate way to describe it as a remake of some 'decade old' rom com with the beautiful faces of Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey. Both of them are in true sense an eye candy and that is the only reason people will go on and watch this movie. Especially Luke Bracey will keep giving you Chris Hemsworth looks is worth watching.
The film is a perfect montage of clichés. It includes every common thing you can imagine like friends with benefits setup, weird families, broken hearts, brief separation over silly things, lots of parties, big heartwarming gesture and a happy ending. Although it contains a lot of characters, it never even tries to use their potential to make an interesting story. These characters are just used as fillers between the scenes of lead actors.
The script is so bad that it doesn’t even had any potential on which the director or actors could work. It goes plan from start to end. Nothing about the film is even slightly unpredictable. It also does not has any impactful music or any kind of interesting editing techniques. There is a chance that the people might start using the term ‘holidate’ soon but it seems less likely with the zero amount of impact that this movie leaves on you.
The saddest part of watching this film is that it is neither romantic nor a comedy. Not one scene in the movie makes you smile or makes you want to dream of being that couple. Coming on Netflix sometimes people have higher hopes with the movies and this movie is seriously going to disappoint you.
When you see the couple, you will think that they are hot, beautiful and you wish to go on a date on them but you would never feel that the couple are in love. They both just look like pathetic losers who had no one else so they were just stuck with each other. The story has no potential to grip you at any point.
While watching the movie your mind is bound to wander in the world of old rom coms which had the same kind of scenes. No emotions is felt by heart while seeing this compilation of scenes taken from every film ever made and totally ruining the funny scenes. Your brain does not has to use a single cell to understand the movie because it already knows the story.
If you are in a mood to not use your brain at all and just lie back and watch to hot people acting dumb then you can watch this movie. Since holiday season is coming up you can just entertain yourself while decorating your house and playing this movie on the side. It is a perfect choice for time pass or if you also feel lonely this year. Overall it is a below average movie.
I will give it 1.5/5 stars.
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