What We Did on Our Holiday What Is the Line by the Grandfather About His Family We Shouldn't Fight
Such a lovely flick
From the great bandage and idea, as well as the trailer being as entertaining as it was, What We Did On Our Holiday did await really promising. And it didn't disappoint, one or two tonal shifts jar just a tad and the material for David Tennant and Rosamund Pike wasn't quite as strong as that for the children and Billy Connolly(though it wasn't at all bad either) but it'southward a lovely pic overall that entertains and touches. What We Did On Our Holiday is well-shot, never doing too much or likewise little, complementing the gorgeous scenery adeptly, while the soundtrack is appropriately understated and the film'southward sympathetically directed, allowing the story to resonate, the script to sparkle, accommodating the actors and using the idea to its total potential. There is a perfect remainder of sense of humor and desolation in the script, the humor especially with the children is often laugh-out-loud funny and the dramatic pathos parts are genuinely poignant. The story e'er engages and apart from at the terminate slightly information technology never feels too predictable, there are a number of surprises and What We Did On Our Vacation has a lot to say about family unit life and deals with it sympathetically and warmly in a manner that allows us to completely identify with the state of affairs and the characters, who all have a great amount of likability. The performances are excellent with the coaction between the actors even stronger, the chemistry betwixt Connolly and the children is just ambrosial. David Tennant and Rosamund Expressway are fine though Connolly and the children make much more of an impact, mainly due to meliorate cloth. Connolly is very funny and also very moving, non but the character'south situation which is enough to break anybody's heart but also it felt like a personal performance with Connolly being as gifted at comedy as he is and his ailing health. The children steal the show, Harriet Turnball is only hilarious and Emilia Jones also plays her role with a lot of charm. All in all, a lovely pic that promised a good bargain and delivers even more. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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funny
Doug (David Tennant) and Abi McLeod (Rosamund State highway) are getting a divorce. They accept a road trip with their immature kids Lottie, Mickey, and Jess to attend his father Gordie (Billy Connolly)'s birthday party. They want to keep the dissever a underground. Gordie is likewise dying of cancer. His other son Gavin has jittery wife Margaret and emo teenager son Kenneth. Gavin is a wealthy fund manager and plans a big party. Gordie takes off for the beach with the three kids.
Nigh of all, the kids are adorable and they are great characters. In that location are some fun family dysfunctions and inappropriate subject matters. There is the big event which would exist better later in the movie. The terminal human action does attempt too hard to bring the family together. The story would catamenia ameliorate equally a smaller family comedy without the media and a smaller police presence. That's not to say the final act doesn't take some proficient laughs and touching moments.
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that one-act
...what y'all looking for. for bitter humour, off course. and for admirable performances. a film about family. and about basic truths. nothing surprising. naught new. except the wise manner to say an like shooting fish in a barrel and almost absurde story in the right mode, proposing to the viewer the coming together with a lot of memories. a fantabulous picture of childhood. and the remind of the precise perspective about nearly reality of kids. short, a moving picture who must see. for smiles. for surprises. for the forms of irony. and for the finish. and sure, as husband/brother/wife / parent or child or teenager , for the impression to run into a film about yourself.
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Gone Grandad
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From the makers of the sit down com Outnumbered comes this odd mix. David Tennant and Rosamund Pike are Doug and Abi going through a rough patch in their wedlock which is on the verge of splitting up. They head off to Scotland with their three children, Lottie, Mickey and Jess to celebrate what could be their grandfather'southward (Doug'due south dad,) Gordie last birthday every bit he is ill with cancer. The couple want to maintain an advent of happy families for Gordie, the kids though permit slip various difficulties their parents are having.
However equally the preparations for the party are taking identify Gordie dies during a trip to the embankment with the children. The kids knowing that all the grown ups just argue decide to requite him a Viking funeral that grandad had earlier talked about which causes consternation to the adults when they later find out.
Information technology is a flick of two halves. The first part is about dysfunctional families as when we go to Scotland, Doug's brother, a social climber also has problems at home with his married woman and son who experience repressed past him. The emphasis on the children who react to the behaviour of the adults around them gives the film a different spin. The 2d half with the resultant media scrum changes the direction of the movie and information technology just got dizzy. By that point it ceased to be an observational comedy and not even a drama.
For a motion-picture show that starts brightly, information technology takes a left plow which leads to disappointing results fifty-fifty though by the end the adults seemed to accept worked through their problems.
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It's all virtually the Family
It's not like shooting fish in a barrel belongings your life together, when your union seems to become south. Peculiarly when kids are involved. Kids that do selection upwardly on things and will let you know. Throw "Grandpas" Birthday into the mix and playing house almost becomes incommunicable. But what could have been a sour look filled with drama, is more than like a light comedy, about death, family unit and life in full general.
To pull this off, you have to have good actors. And you lot will non be surprised by the performances of the adults in this. You might be surprised past the performance of the kid actors though. They are really good and help carry the movie. Of form not all is light and fun throughout, but the overall experience is what yous could wait :o)
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What We Did on Our Vacation
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I saw this pic listed in the television receiver schedules a few times over a couple of years, I was about interested considering of the cast, and it was rated well by critics, and so I hoped it was worth waiting for, written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Drib the Dead Donkey, Outnumbered). Basically Doug McLeod (BAFTA Scotland nominated David Tennant) and his wife Abi (Rosamund Pike) accept recently separated, but reunite to accept their three children, Lottie (Emilia Jones), Mickey (Bobby Smalldridge), and Jess (Harriet Turnbull) with them on a holiday. They are driving from London to the Scottish Highlands to see Doug's begetter Gordie (Billy Connolly), who is celebrating his 75th altogether, and it may be his last, equally he is dying of last cancer, Doug's brother, millionaire Gavin McLeod (Ben Miller) has arranged a lavish party for him. It is revealed that Doug had an affair, which lead to Abi moving out and taking legal action against him, but they practise non desire to upset Gordie in what could be his final months, and then they ask their children non to speak well-nigh the separation. Arriving at Gordie'south mansion, there is a tense rivalry betwixt Doug and Gavin that is blatant. Despite being extremely ill, Gordie is fun-loving, and encourages his grandchildren, specially Lottie, to relish life while they are immature. While Gavin, Doug, Abi and Gavin's wife Margaret (Amelia Bullmore) make the final arrangements for the party, Gordie takes the 3 children to the beach. Gordie tells the children he is descended from the Vikings, he reveals his desire to be buried "the Viking style", being cremated and sent out to sea. While the children are playing on the beach, Gordie dies peacefully lying on the sand. Lottie runs to tell the adults, leaving her brother and sister with Gordie's body, but when she arrives, they are arguing, with Abi admitting she besides had an affair, and wants to move with the children to Newcastle. Lottie returns to the beach without telling the adults what has happened, then the children determine to fulfil Gordie'south last wish, they build an improvised raft, and using petrol from Gordie's truck, they ship him out to sea and prepare his raft on fire, "Viking" fashion. The children return abode and tell the adults what has happened, they are horrified. Doug and Gavin go to the beach and find Gordie's truck submerged in the rising tide, Gavin breaks downward in Doug'due south arms. Abi and Margaret break the news of Gordie's death to the guests, and words spreads quickly of what the children did. The police arrive to investigate, accompanied by social services worker Agnes Chisholm (Celia Imrie), who interviews the children nigh their deportment. After speaking to Lottie, Agnes contemplates removing the children from Doug and Abi'southward care, while the press descends on the house and Lottie, Jess and Mickey's deportment make headlines worldwide. While using Gavin and Margaret's son Kenneth's (Lewis Davie) computer, Mickey and Jess accidentally stumble upon a video of Gavin'southward wife Margaret in a supermarket attacking a shopper, Gavin also sees it, and was unaware of his wife's bug, a outcome of her depression. The printing describes the children's actions as depraved, but Doug and Abi make a argument, saying that nonetheless misguided they were, they support the children's efforts to honour their granddad, and that what they did was non malicious. Chisholm ends her investigation, having seen the support given to Lottie, Mickey and Jess, she leaves the children with their parents. Gavin and Doug hold their own memorial for Gordie at the beach, the brothers seem have buried the hatchet, while Abi tells Doug she will not be moving to Newcastle, the couple make up one's mind to have a civil divorce and apologise to their children. It ends with the extended family honouring Gordie on a colina higher up the beach with some friends, and then the family unit playfully splashing effectually in the water on the beach. Also starring I Foot in the Grave's Annette Crosbie as Doreen. It was nominated the BAFTA Scotland for Best Feature Movie. Tennant and Pike requite proficient performances as the unhappily married couple who effort to conceal their marital strife without success, and Connolly is loveable as the grandfather in skillful spirits despite his affliction, but it is indeed the 3 youngsters who steal the testify. Most of the laugh-out-loud moments come from the innocent commentary and reactions from the kids, information technology does well at being funny, there is the tragic element of the story, just it is clever at balancing it out and making it poignant, a satisfying one-act drama. Very good!
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Comedy, tragedy and more comedy on a family unit vacation
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When estranged couple Doug and Abi and their iii children; Lottie, Mickey and Jess, head north to Scotland to attend the birthday of Doug's father, Gordie, things don't start well and apace get worse. Having finally got the children into the car, got by the congested roads and arrived at Doug's brother'southward mansion in the West Highlands things are no improve; Doug doesn't desire his father to know he is getting divorced and he doesn't want the children to larn that their grandpa is terminally ill only inevitable secrets come out. Things plough from awkward to tragic when Gordie dies during a trip to the embankment with the children leaving them to decide what to do next… and as he had spoken of how he would like a Viking funeral they requite him one something that plain disturbs the adults when they acquire most it just as the altogether guests arrive.
This might non sound like comedy cloth but information technology manages to be hilarious fifty-fifty when tragedy strikes thanks to a witty script from writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin and a keen bandage. This cast is led past some well-known actors including David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and a peculiarly practiced Billy Connolly even so information technology is the performances of the youngsters Emilia Jones, Bobby Smalldridge and Harriet Turnbull, as Lottie, Mickey and Jess, that make the moving-picture show such fun. They are neither overly precocious nor wooden… fifty-fifty when the situations are somewhat unlikely their performances brand their deportment believable. While there is a happy ending it didn't feel like a cop out; it is a comedy after all… speaking of cop outs I was sure the adults would turn up and finish the Viking funeral right up until the indicate they prepare burn down to the makeshift raft they had fabricated for their granddad; information technology was a relief that they weren't stopped as their deportment led to some of the films funniest moments when people learn what they take done. The setting, in Wester Ross on Scotland's west coast, is quite stunning showing part of the land all also few people get to come across. Overall this was a lot of fun; the comedy had me laughing till I cried and the poignant scene of Geodie'southward death had be shedding a few tears of sorrow. There are some parts that parents might not considered suitable for younger children, hence the '12' certificate, but I doubtable children over that age will enjoy it equally much as adult viewers.
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Inspired comedic writing and entertaining delivery of a very squeamish story in Scotland.
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I saw this at home on DVD from my local public library.
I generally like British humor and this motion-picture show is filled with it, and well-nigh all of it is laugh out loud funny, just in a very smart way. The cast includes three children, daughter-boy-girl of nigh x, 8, and six, and they are each smart and delightful. They play a very central role in the resolution of the overall story.
The "happy" couple, contemplating a divorce and not currently living together, are Rosamund Pike as Abi and David Tennant equally Doug. They are getting their things and the iii kids into the family SUV for a road trip from the London area to NW coast of Scotland, to aid celebrate the 75 birthday of Doug'southward dad.
But his dad, Billy Connolly (virtually 71 during filming) as Gordie, hasn't been well and his kids are maxim this may be his last birthday.
(Equally an aside, Connolly is but slap-up in this office and his performance overall makes the motion-picture show what it is.)
And then anyway the weekend in Scotland will involve Doug's blood brother and married woman, plus 200+ guests invited to the large birthday commemoration in the big tent out in the big yard. Simply tin can the kids go on the secrets, so that grandad won't fall ill worrying about his sons?
This is a great picture, interesting, funny, and with a meaningful message about accepting others with their quirks, people are just who they are, life is short, don't get mad at others you care about, but get along!
SPOILERS: Gordie was non happy about the fuss being made over his birthday and he has resigned to the fact that his cancer is killing him. He puts on a brave face just he knows the end is nigh. He takes the pickup truck and the three grandkids to his favorite beach while everyone else is prepping for the party in the evening. Gordie lies down on a blanket on the sand simply never wakes upward. The kids rightly decide that he has died, no pulse and no animate. They also recall him maxim only before that twenty-four hours he didn't desire a funeral, he was eighty% Viking and he would take preferred a fiery burial at ocean. So the kids gather discarded wood pallets and build a raft, and using the lawn recliner as a sail, set him on fire and out into the North Atlantic. In the end the grownups and news agencies exterior the door have trouble understanding merely Abi and Doug get the overall message and may be ready to repair their relationship.
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It's and so funny!
This movie tells the story of a well known and rich, just erratic and dysfunctional family who gathers in Scotland for the grandpa's 75th altogether celebration.
I am and then delighted to accept found this film, because it is probably the funniest film I take seen in months. The beginning third of the moving picture fabricated me laughed so hard that I could hardy breathe. The iii kids are just existence kids, simply they are so funny in a really realistic fashion. The second one-half is quite sad, which is a drastic change of atmosphere. The third half becomes wildly funny again. You lot have to sentry information technology to believe information technology. And the scenery is really beautiful as well. I thoroughly enjoyed watching "What We Did on Our Holiday.
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Life really is too brusque you know...
What We Did on Our Holiday is written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. It stars Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Baton Connolly, Ben Miller, Amelia Bullmore, Emilia Jones, Bobby Smalldridge, Harriet Turnbull and Celia Imrie. Music is by Alex Heffes and cinematography by Martin Hawkins.
"The truth is, every human being on this planet is ridiculous in their ain fashion. And then we shouldn't approximate, we shouldn't fight, because in the end... in the finish, none of it matters. None of the stuff"
Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin spin off from their hugely popular sit-com, Outnumbered, to produce this funny, philosophical and moving-picture show. Tennant and Pike play parents of three young children, they are awaiting a divorce, merely with Doug'southward (Tennant) father, Gordie (Connolly), dying of cancer, the family caput to Scotland for what volition surely be his last birthday party. Hoping to put on a united front and so as to not upset Gordie any further, nobody could envisage what was to happen side by side...
It's a film that some no doubt find piece of cake to kick, such is the uncomplicated construction used, and the formula of messaging that drives it forrard. All the same sometimes unproblematic is all you need, and in this twenty-four hour period and historic period of mega-buck blockbusters and soulless frat type comedies grasping at sex for laughs, this is a moving-picture show of refreshing qualities. It's superbly performed past what is a top notch group of adult British actors, who in plough are supplemented by iii child actors and so natural and engaging information technology makes you lot wonder if acting school is really needed?
Information technology'south manifestly a piece that will resonate more with those who have been touched/stung by the thematics at work, while the comedy ticking away - with some truly great lines uttered - could seem a bit off kilter for the unprepared, but hopefully more will sentinel it, express joy and cry and ultimately realise that life really is too brusk for, well, you get the picture show I'm sure. 8/ten
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Outnumbered On Water ice
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One way of looking at this is a group of talented actors agreeing - for reasons best known to themselves - to squander their commonage talents and several weeks of their time on a banal quota quickie cynically designed to appear in turn, cute, charming, picturesque then segueing to idea-provoking in mid stream. No ane really puts a foot incorrect and if you can accept Billy Connolly every bit anything other than a crude, untalented stand-up comedian totally reliant on fibroid, lavatorial humour in pursuit of laughs so at that place's every adventure you lot'll beguile xc minutes or then more than or less painlessly. For reasons best known to the benefactor it'southward been released at the end of the holiday season that is its natural habitat.
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Delightful kid-based comedy
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Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) are taking their iii children to Scotland for Grandad Gordie (Billy Connolly)'s 75th birthday party. Gordie'due south cancer is terminal, and so they want to avoid mention of their marital issues (they have recently split up following infidelities). Shenanigans ensue.
This comedy centres on the stresses which affect families and does non shy away from difficult issues. Merely it is based around the children who are, for the most part, very proficient (and far from overshadowed by the heavyweights with whom they are performing). For the most part, this film is very funny and quite joyful. A particular delight is the interplay between hostage and old earlier her time ten-year old Lottie (a charming functioning from Emilia Jones) and the grandad who has never really grown upwards.
In that location are criticisms: in that location is an air of Goggle box sitcom most information technology – hardly surprising given that it comes from the BBC via a sitcom groundwork, not all the threads started pay off, and the ending leans towards glibness. Merely these are modest quibbles as there is much to enjoy here.
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Experience skilful fun (if yous're in the mood)
Aw, how sweetness. I recollect I said that pretty much every two minutes during 'What We Did On Our Vacation'southward' xc infinitesimal runtime. Yes, it'southward a 'squeamish' picture. It deals with family drama where a immature couple (ex Dr Who David Tennant and ex Bond girl Rosamund Pike) who are in the process of getting divorced, take their 3 children (all with various degrees of psychosis) on a family vacation to Scotland for cancer-stricken Granddad's (Billy Connoly) birthday. During their stay many skeletons become uncovered and truths get dragged to the surface.
Yet, despite the 'adult themes' of expiry and relationships, it's actually weighted towards the children, all of which are largely but going through the adult scenarios in their own childlike ways. Like I say – sweet.
Sometimes, when a film has children in prominent roles, they can make or break it. In that location'southward zilch worse than a 'wooden' kid player doing his best to bleat his lines with admittedly cypher emotion or understanding of what he'southward going. At least here the kids' performances encounter as realistic, making the whole pic watchable.
Plus, despite being 'sweetness' yous never experience that it'south 'sickeningly sweet' and too 'nicey-wicey' which it could stray into if it wasn't careful.
Overall, the film is expert enough, simply you have to exist in the mood for 'sugariness.' If you lot're looking for 'dark and depressing' this one is definitely non for yous. It'south a dainty, gentle flick which yous tin sort of accept on in the background and still go what'due south happening (and the jokes).
About the just thing I didn't agree with was how sunny it appeared to be in Scotland. It wasn't like that any time I'd been there (or perhaps I just went on the incorrect week!).
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Good
Visually gorgeous, story-wise average. I enjoyed watching.
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Tries to Make you Express joy and Feel, but dosen't do Either,
What Nosotros Did on Our Holiday is a shocking moving picture with a poorly written storyline and a promising cast that couldn't do annihilation to save this. It fails on and then many levels, the only worth while office of this entire film is Billy Connolly's functioning, which was very existent equally he plays a man concerned about the mean solar day he dies, something that he has been worried near himself for a while now, other than that everything else in this is disastrous, the biggest error they made is putting the three children as the principal characters, they have more scenes than Rosamund Throughway or David Tennant practice, which is simply ridiculous, the kids have no charisma and conspicuously had very niggling interim experience. To say that this movie dosen't have a skillful story is an understatement, considering there's isn't even a proper story, I tin can't properly depict to you what actually happens, other than it starts off seeming similar a calorie-free hearted family one-act, and then takes a dark, unexpected plow that is without a doubt the almost disturbing scene I've ever seen in a movie with a 12 rating. Every bit a comedy information technology fails, there is non a unmarried scene that I laughed or fifty-fifty grinned at, it tries too hard to be funny, information technology then goes on to try and exist sugariness and emotional, which is likewise an embarrassment, I'g never given a reason to treat these characters, so I don't believe at that place is whatever reason for me to feel for them when their conflict is resolved. Dull pace, unfunny and overly sentimental, I would certainly give What We Did on Our Holiday a miss if I were you.
A struggling couple have their kids on a family holiday to see their Grandad on his final birthday.
Best Operation: Billy Connolly Worst Operation: Harriett Turnbull
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Kids rule in this oddball comedy
An odd yet often charming Scottish production, What We Did on Our Vacation is an easy movie to sit down dorsum and bask and features some peachy child performers that steal the evidence from their much more seasoned co-stars.
Sprinkled with a healthy dose of weird, directing duo Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin embed Holiday with an odd charm and flavour that may exist likewise much for some and perhaps may fifty-fifty hamper viewers enjoyment who merely might non of signed upwardly to see young children dowse a corpse in gasoline. This odd centre at the core of Holiday nonetheless is what distinguishes it from a raft of other family oddball adventures and whilst at that place's an air of predictability virtually some of the goings on here often the moving picture veers into directions and scenarios that you won't see coming which for modern day comedies is no mean feat.
In such comedies as Vacation it's of the utmost importance that the dysfunctional family we're spending our fourth dimension with are despite their flaws endearing and while David Tenant and Rosamund Pike'south newly but secretly separated Doug and Abi aren't overly worthy of our affections there trio of children are. Wonderfully played past Emilia Jones, Bobby Smalldridge and Harriet Turnbull, these iii tykes take fantastic interplay and have a knack for out doing in that location elder statesman in the timing stakes and all drive Holiday to a higher level than there developed performers tin muster up. With able support from veteran Billy Connolly for in one case the child performers are the true reason to invest your time into a moving picture of this ilk.
The story surrounding Vacation is a little slight and the movie could've washed with a few more than truly express joy out loud jokes but at the cease of the 90 minute trip to the Scottish Highlands which is highlighted by the sight of children getting amongst a makeshift Viking themed burial you lot'll be pleased yous've taken the fourth dimension out to be with the McLeod family, despite the forgettable nature of much of what had come to pass.
3 gasoline covered grandads out of 5
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Not that funny! ii/10
Review: I didn't really savor this movie considering the script, really wasn't that funny. On summit of that, the storyline was completely ridiculous and and so unrealistic. The constant bickering betwixt the adults became annoying after a while and the whole kids burning the body episode was totally stupid. The fact that there grandad could have still been live was quite agonizing, even though the kids were post-obit there granddads wishes. The other problem that I found with the storyline was that no i was willing to look for the body, fifty-fifty though the kids said that they had set it debark. The acting also seemed a fleck over exaggerated and the kids, who were at such a young age, shouldn't accept taken on such a big responsibility without an developed nowadays. I know that it shouldn't exist taken then seriously simply the sketchy script became tedious after a while. In all, I won't be watching it again in a hurry. Disappointing!
Round-Upward: I'm not a large fan of English comedies just I thought I would requite this a chance because I usually like Billy Connolly'southward work. In this picture I didn't really find him that funny merely that is generally due to the writers who really didn't practice a good task. I thought that the movie might accept a plough for the better one time the investigating officer got involved in the whole plot but that just led to a dead end. Anyway, I recall that yous can tell that I didn't enjoy this film merely if your into the English sense of humor, and so this might be your loving cup of tea.
I recommend this movie to people who are into their English language comedies virtually a dysfunctional family who go to the Highlands for a birthday party which leads to a strange chain of events. two/ten
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Enid Blyton storyline,simply,like,totally cool,yeah?
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Are there no happy families whatever more?Does anyone find the sight of parents yelling,screaming and gesticulating at 1 another in the p*ssing rain on the hard shoulder of a thruway while their children cringe in the motorcar even vaguely hilarious? "What nosotros did on our holiday" is the BBC's have on middle - grade family life in the second decade of the 21st century with roles that might have been taken past Mr Thousand.More and Miss D.Sheridan dorsum in the day when British pictures were loved throughout the civilised world(apart from France of course). Now,lx years on and "British" films being 90% American bandage and financed,simply a few bohemian directors can put together a home - grown production that is recognisable as part of the England I inhabit.Sadly, this is non one of them. BBC stalwarts like Mr B.Miller - or is it Mr R.Brydon,I sometimes have difficulty in telling them part - and the wonderful Miss A.Bullmore adopt excruciating Scottish accents that would send Nicola Sturgeon into paroxysms of rage and Mr B.Connolly undoes all the good work he did in "Quartet" by playing the same office with what sounds similar very like dialogue. Even the ubiquitous Miss C.Imrie gets in on the act equally a sort of Highland kid catcher brought in when a twenty-four hour period on the embankment for the children and their grandfather turns out rather unexpectedly. Equally might exist expected from the writers concerned,the children are smarter and far nicer than the self - obsessed adults who are supposed to exist nurturing them. The message is it's survivable to exist a child with bloodcurdling parents as long as you're cool and do your ain thing. It'south something the BBC thrust into our children's faces on a daily basis on CBBC to the extent that it must seem to many impressionable x year olds that that if they live in a secure,happy and loving family they're doing something incorrect.
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Never has a film deteriorated then much in the 2d half
I really liked this film . Let me correct myself. I actually liked half of this motion picture . The first half is funny cheers to the kids getting all the all-time lines simply something happens half fashion through in the plot that turns this from an enjoyable romp to an outright shambles. The last half hour is shockingly bad . It turns into the virtually sickly sugariness nonsense that was trying to tug at the viewers heart string but just fabricated me angry . This is a film a rare moving-picture show where the child actors are the stars and the developed actors ( Baton Connolly the exception ) are irritations.
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Quirky feelgood flick nigh expiry and family unit
A light movie dealing with a wide range of adult issues movingly handled by iii cute children. Certainly better than your average romcon and a great choice for a Sunday dark cuddle on the sofa with popcorn
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What'due south non to dear!
The kids make this film their reactions just seem and so natural and unforced similar so many other similar films of this way. Billy Connelly was also both charming and hilarious whilst Tennant and Pike worked well off each other. It's no accolade winner but it'due south great fun and will brighten up anyone's solar day!
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Lovely family unit film that takes you on a roller-coaster of emotions.
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A British 2014 film, or to be specific, a Scottish film made by BBC (Alba) Films and Creative Scotland. Written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkins, this film has a runtime of 95-minutes and was fabricated with a reported budget of £3.5million, which it more than than doubled at the box function (£10.7 million). The motion picture stars David Tennant and Rosamund Pike as Doug and Abi McLeod. The London based couple have separate up and live separately but still accept interactions due to their 3 children who alive with mother Abi. Doug's father Gordie (Billy Connolly) has terminal cancer but is due to celebrate his 75th birthday presently. His other son, Gavin (Ben Miller), is arranging a lavish party at their mansion in Scotland with his wife Margaret (Amelia Bullmore). When Doug and Abi arrive with their children it is articulate that Gordie isn't actually that interested in a party, it's more down to Gavin wanting to do it. So, wanting zero to do with information technology, merely instead wanting to spent fourth dimension with his grandchildren, Gordie takes them to the beach while the grown-upward'south prepare the political party and squabble with each other. The child'southward love their grandpa and his zany means, on this beach risk he reveals that he is 80% Viking and if anything should befall him he would want to exist cached the traditional Viking way. This is useful information considering while the kids are all happily playing Gordie unexpectedly passes away. Unable to rouse any grown-ups to assist out, the kids gear up about making arrangements for their grandfather themselves. They perform a Viking burial, cremating him on a burning raft which is moving out to sea. On the kids return the news plainly causes a shock and all hell breaks loose as people come up to terms with the decease, and how information technology was dealt with.
I loved this fun and touching motion-picture show. Not only is it a great advertising for Scotland and the beautiful scenery shown, it's too a lovely advert for life too. I went through a roller-coaster of emotions watching this pic, and to be honest - I wasn't intending to watch it. This cracker only happened to be on terrestrial TV i dark and I had nothing else queued up to watch, then I gave it a go. I went from wondering what the hell I had gotten myself into, through enjoyment and sadness, ending with a warm fuzzy feeling that was happy at the gift of life. Information technology isn't necessarily a life changing story, it's more just a reminder to enjoy the fun and simple things and try to avoid stress and arguments.
The acting on prove is great, the adult actors in this ply their trade with form and guile - Tennant, State highway, Miller, Connolly, et al, all do a convincing and engaging job in representing their characters. Regardless of what troubles and stresses they are going through themselves - which is a lot, they are never far away from being lovable people yet. Actually though it'south the children who do an outstanding job here; Micky (Bobby Smalldridge), Jess (Harriet Turnbull), and Lottie (Emilia Jones). Information technology could be argued that their performances were a little squeaky make clean, but in that location can be no doubt that they really drive the moving picture forward with what they do. There are times they almost steal the show from their more experienced and seasoned actors with their engaging sweetness. The acting is one thing, but it's clear they are working from well written textile here and have bully direction, credit has to go to Jenkins and Hamilton. They have both worked on the hit BBC family comedy "Outnumbered" and they were able to lend their craft to a feature film really well. They accept provided sharply written story which was both realistic and bordered on cool, it had plenty of humor and pathos, and information technology captured attention from the audience besides. While some taboos are covered in this moving-picture show, they are nothing that the realty of life doesn't throw at u.s. all, this flick does it with a heart.
I would be happy to recommend this family film. I didn't intend watching it but am glad I did. I am sure that anyone with a centre will find some joy from this likewise - oh, but bring a tissue also, simply in case a tear accompanies the joy.
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An Attempt at a Darkly Comic Kids/Family Film!
Positives : one Some great Scottish locations! Actually, tin y'all ever go wrong with location filming in Scotland with reasonable weather?
ii Rosamund Pike! What picture show isn't enhanced by her presence? However this time yous'll have to exist settled with her playing not much more than than a support role.
iii Baton Connolly does a more than adequate task playing ... Billy Connolly. Fair enough I reckon, if like me, you lot got very used to John Wayne playing John Wayne in the vast majority of his movies.
iv Emilia Jones as Lottie McLeod in what amounts to the imitation lead office, is exceptionally cute, even whilst delivering a rather 1 note performance.
Negatives :1 Information technology'due south designed to be a dramedy, but the one-act component is seriously lacking in this British production, which instead is just over - loaded with whimsy, rather than sense of humor. A mistake! The 2d half twist calculated to inject some nighttime one-act into a predictable dysfunctional family storyline, only succeeds in creating a notable air of discomfort and dare I say, creepiness to the whole affair. This is not the sort of pic that I'd ever want to encounter again, though I admit kids may possibly gain something from watching information technology.
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A picturesque, clever, meaningful however funny gem of a film
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Today's generation gap is huge, parents find coping with with the organised anarchy that is modern life an almost insuperable problem, and yet somewhere downward the line kids demand their parents - and hugely also their grandparents, and of course both parties can do good if for in one case we just drop the stupid, profane and mostly meaningless burdens of everyday life and remember about what actually matters. Communing a bit with nature might do that, and from the off we know that "What nosotros did on our vacation" is going to be selling the inspiringly gorgeous Scottish Highlands and Islands to us - including the midges (whose presence the film is big plenty to admit to).
In full general, this offering both written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin dwells a lot on peoples' lying (for a vareity of reasons), yet is supremely, at times touchingly, at times even brutally, honest in its arroyo.
Its integrity shines through.
To make this work, the makers needed two sets of messed upwards parents to begin with (and this job is very well done by David Tennant + Rosamund Pike, equally well equally Ben Miller (the best thing he's done I believe) + Amelia Bullmore. Here we have two brothers markedly dissimilar from one some other plus their wives. On paper, the Miller grapheme Gavin is more successful than that played past Tennant, merely he has the small difficulty of actually explaining what he fifty-fifty does! Basically, he'south a "short seller" (whatever that is), and his young nephews and nieces make the kind of innocently witty remarks on that score that you lot might expect - to fine practiced comic effect! Exactly what brother Doug does is not clear either, only both of their marriages accept some issues.
Only the stars of this show are grandparent and kids, and here there is nothing less than dream-fulfilment, as those who take long imagined how swell a slightly toned-down but withal pithy Billy Connolly might evidence to be get their rewards. Poor onetime granddaddy is on the way out due to cancer and he is at present (on the occasion of his 75th birthday political party) set, even desperate, to communicate some of his existent, fundamental thoughts virtually the world. He feels he'south not going to do very well with his sons and daughters-in-police, but wonders if he might achieve them through the kids, at the same fourth dimension equally reaching the kids. Ultimately, he achieves more than he bargains for, when actually dying on the beach while in those kids' visitor; and he thus gives rise to the flick's crescendo ending (on which score I'll avoid all spoilers).
Many of the lines Connolly gets to utter are just superb, and the way he puts them across likewise. Information technology'due south a care for.
All the same, every bit Connolly interacts magnificently with Emilia Jones as Lottie, Bobby Smalldridge as Mickey and Harriet Turnbull equally the youngest Jess, even he is at the same time existence upstaged by them. These kids are just splendidly talented, appealing, and extremely, extremely funny. What is more, they frequently convey huge pregnant in what they say and practise, equally kids invariably will. At that place is total, disarming authenticity here.
Lottie - being the oldest - is most afflicted by her parents' marital problems, and has go rather withdrawn and anxious. Seeing her transform with the events of the film is a moving and at times powerful joy to scout. More depth and reality is conveyed by Emilia Jones's performance than in many, many previous films we've seen.
Indeed, comedy express joy-out-loud this may be, but we have a peachy deal of value and meaning from this piece if nosotros focus in on it (and as well if nosotros perservere through a possibly slightly unpromising-looking start few minutes).
Allow'due south face up information technology, a family unit get-together in a big house in the remote and beautiful wilds of Scotland is a concept that has a lot going for it from the showtime, but the jewel of giving equal weight to three generations of the family unit (with actors truly capable of pushing that idea through), of allowing the lines to flow with such a mix of wit and wisdom, of achieving the perfect mix of physical and verbal comedy, and of pursuing a plot-line of typically British eccentricity, is a really great achievement that should not be underestimated.
At moments, "What we did on our vacation" risks straying towards the syrupy or naive, only it mostly, mainly stays on the right side of the line. That'as deft work past the makers. The moving picture also very wisely plays just slightly with the English-Scottish stuff, remaining good-humoured and avoiding easy laughs based effectually divisiveness in favour of meaningful content that Brits from Land's End to John O'Groats can readily identify with.
And they certainly should do and so, as the rewards are very considerable.
I expected footling here and got a very groovy deal (appropriately plenty on Christmas 24-hour interval).
I believe many, many others will observe the aforementioned as I did.
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What we did on our Vacation
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This was a corking film. Information technology had my attention from the commencement to the stop. I loved the role when everyone in the family was in the car travelling. They all fell asleep except the 6-twelvemonth-old little girl. And she was holding the steering wheel driving Lol. Daddy wakes upwards and says why didn't you wake me upward. The little daughter is at-home every bit tin be and says. "Well that would be kind of mean daddy you looked sleepy" Information technology was cute and adorable the way she said it. Oh, and when Grandad died the grandchildren Sent him on the river on burn down. Considering they knew Grandpa did non want a Funeral. Loved how they RESPECT HIS WISHES. I also loved how Grandpa knew there was going to be a PARTY FOR HIM THAT Twenty-four hours. Just what did he exercise. He did what a TRUE Granddaddy WANTED TO Exercise. SPEND A Crawly Mean solar day WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN. Merely grandpa and the children. Off to have a fun-filled twenty-four hours. They played with animals on the beach. I had a nice large bivouac. Were information technology said NO CAMPFIRES ALLOWED. Just a very exciting twenty-four hour period kids go and accept lots of fun and enjoy yourselves. Those kids will never ever forget that 24-hour interval. They even bared grandpa upwardly to his head on the beach. Covered in the sand you can tell those kids the young actors. I loved making that part of the movie because they looked then chilled out. It looked similar they were not fifty-fifty acting. Another reason why I Loved this Motion-picture show. Ane more than matter normally with immature actors. It is always one that steals the motion picture. Merely in this film, all these kids did a fantastic job.
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