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The Perfect
Holiday
Starring: Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Queen Latifah, Terrence
Howard
Directed by: Lance Rivera
Produced by:
Sha-Kim Compere, Queen Latifah, Leifur B. Dagfinnsson, Lance Rivera, et. al
Written
by: Lance Rivera, Mark Calixte
Distributor: Yari Film Group |
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The Perfect Holiday is one of the most cliché, dopey,
predictable, and cheaply-made Christmas movies ever released in
American theatres, but it’s also strangely one of the most
likable. The picture functions as a comfort in much the same way
that a Hallmark Channel Holiday Special does, so ordinary in its
indulgence in the Christmas Spirit that it somehow becomes
identifiable in the process. As filmgoers, we may not be able to
relate to movies that transport us to the North Pole and there
try to woo us with red and green imagery, but we are certainly
able to sympathize with the everyday (if cartoonishly-constructed)
characters found in The Perfect Holiday. From Gabrielle
Union’s lonely divorcee to her three children in need of a real
father-figure (their Daddy’s a hack of a rapper who only sees
them when he needs them to appear in a television interview with
him) to the shopping-mall-Santa (Morris Chestnut) who wishes to
fit that bill, all of the personalities in the movie certainly
gain the viewer’s emotional investment. The film’s
sometimes-poor acting and shoddy production-values only work to
make it more warmly and agreeably inconsequential. Still, one
could probably turn on the aforementioned Hallmark Channel and
find something just as good as The Perfect Holiday
playing; there isn’t anything to distinguish it from the rest of
the pact. But when the movie makes it to cable itself, I’m sure
that it will do just the trick to pleasantly waste two hours
(including commercials, that is) of your time.
-Danny Baldwin,
Bucket Reviews
Review Published
on: 12.21.2007
Screened on:
12.12.2007 at Edwards Mira Mesa 18 in Mira Mesa, CA.
The Perfect Holiday is rated PG and
runs 96 minutes.
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