Last Holiday
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: January 13, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
14
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Queen Latifah gives a spectacular performance in this hugely enjoyable wish-fulfillment fantasy. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A movie that takes advantage of the great good nature and warmth of Queen Latifah, and uses it to transform a creaky old formula into a comedy that is just plain lovable. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
We may know exactly where we're going, but the journey is so much fun, all but the most peevish audience members will find it impossible to complain. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's too bad there's so little of LL Cool J as the secret object of Georgia's fantasies. He'd make a funny, nimble, sexy romantic lead with just a bit more screen time. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Latifah's performance and the film's gentle heart should prove enough to win over even the most churlish. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Director Wayne Wang and his screenwriters sometimes ape ''Pretty Woman." But Latifah's obvious forebear is Pearl Bailey, who was just as regal and straight-up. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMatt Singer
The most surprisingly satisfying Hollywood comedy in ages. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The movie clichés are bearable mainly because the cast rises above the formulaic material. There are also some bona fide laughs to be had once the setting switches to a luxurious resort in the Czech Republic. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
There are a number of excruciating moments that are almost too silly to mention. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Last Holiday floats along on the broad shoulders of one of our most able dramatic comedians. Without her, it would sag like a punctured souffle. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Predictable but enjoyable comedy, which succeeds largely on the charm of its star. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Queen Latifah finally gets a vehicle that gives her formidable talents and expansive spirit plenty of blooming room. Read full review
60
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The movie is content to be a kind of middling expression of human decency: It's never either terribly funny or terribly dramatic, but Latifah's quiet solidity and common sense root it in ways that larger, louder pictures never achieve. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Watching Last Holiday, I kept waiting for the moment I could decree the movie truly terrible, the instant I could comfortably put my pen and notebook away and give it up for lost. But that moment never came, partly because I never fail to take pleasure in Latifah, and partly because I couldn't shake the eerie feeling that the movie I was watching was something of a ghost from another time. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A chaste and tepid remake of a 1950 British comedy. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Once again, Queen Latifah survives some remarkably clumsy filmmaking. More than survives; she manages to prevail.
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Director Wayne Wang stumbles through the awkward script without finding its shape or its tone, steering it toward maturity while the script falls back into slapstick sports gags and adolescent social politics. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
A thoroughly mediocre dramedy. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
This harmless bit of fluff lacks the element of surprise but is not without random charming moments supplied by its incandescent star. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Queen Latifah's energy may be winning and her self-reliance message righteous, but Last Holiday grossly overextends her credit Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
For a film ostensibly about how life means nothing without adventure and unpredictability, Last Holiday all feels as preordained as the film-ending Emeril cameo. Read full review
40
VarietyJoe Leydon
Most successful when it is engaging, not uproarious. Glossy amusement is an updated remake of a well-regarded 1950 Brit comedy-drama starring Alec Guinness, improbably retrofitted as a star vehicle for Queen Latifah. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
I can tell you in two words why to see this movie, which is otherwise an unspecial Cinderella farce...and those two words are: Queen Latifah. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Likable as she is, Latifah can't overcome a tortured mistaken-identity plot, buffoonery on the ski slopes, and enough saccharine dialogue to induce shock. Read full review
40
EmpireAnna Smith
Money can buy you happiness in this inferior remake - although its makeover storyline may please fans of "The Princess Diaries" et al. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
If you really want to live life to the fullest, step one is to avoid wasting an hour and a half of your life in a theater showing Last Holiday. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
As witless as it is formulaic. Read full review
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