Wonderful character development!

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

'So bad it's good' is a very difficult thing to pull of, but just within the first 30 seconds we were entranced with what can only be described as the absolute worst acting ever put to film.The absolute highlight personally (spoilers!) was when a schoolteacher became pregnant because of a creepy red-headed child. At that point it was just bad, but then you see the nurse in the hospital asks with genuine concern if she has been with any animals lately. Apparently this happens with such frequency that pregnancy tests have evolved to spot mystical reptile pregnancies. When her sister scolded her when she missed her appointment with the vet tears were rushing down my face.Every prediction we made was out-weirded by this movie. There is nothing like it.I don't want to spoil too much, but gather some friends and enjoy the best comedy from 2016.

Holidays is a anthology movie that is comprised of 8 shorts,each with a different holiday as a main theme.Now with a premise like that you would think that this would be an amazing movie,especially with the likes of Kevin Smith directing one of the shorts.But sometimes even the easiest ideas are horribly botched.Was this movie a disaster...well...kinda.From the start I was expecting that not all shorts are gonna be the same quality,but what I was not expecting is that only 2 shorts were scary.The best short and the most frightening by far is the Easter one.Truly horrifying and twisted it captured that sense of old school horror with a newer looking monster.My second favorite is The New Year short,it had a predictable twist but I nonetheless enjoyed it.Before I start rambling about the not so good shorts,I would like to talk about one that left me completely disappointed.It wasn't necessary bad but it was just wasted potential.The short in question was Father's Day.It was if I am not mistaken the shortest one but still it had so much potential.The directing and cinematography were Spielberg level of great.I was in awe at some of the scenes,truly breathtaking...and then the ending came and ruined everything.And when I say everything I mean everything.It just destroyed everything that it was trying to hype up...utterly disappointing.I am not gonna talk a lot about the other 5 shorts,because in my opinion they all suffer from the same problem more or less.They are just not scary or even interesting.They all feel rushed and a lot of the story is just left out for cheap „scares".Kevin Smith especially disappointed me.His short Halloween was by far the worst one.Valentine's day,Mothers day and Christmas were so incredibly boring,dumb and riddled with plot holes that it was almost unwatchable.In the end I thought Holidays was a mixed bag.It had 2 good shorts,1 mediocre one and 5 bad ones.In my opinion I don't suggest watching this one,but if you are really interested in the movie,watch the Easter short and New Year's one on Youtube because its not worth watching the rest of it to get to the good parts.

I mostly just logged on here to talk about the Halloween segment, which was directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy). This was one of the weaker shorts and it ends with a guy apparently being electrocuted by a car battery attached to a dildo inserted into his anus.Has anyone actually ever been electrocuted by a car battery? Nope. As is commonly known, the voltage is too low to get through the skin. Go outside, find a car, lick two fingers and put them on the terminals. At best you'll feel a mild tingling.OK I know films aren't meant to be entirely real world accurate, but hey, I expected a bit more from Kevin Smith.But wait you say - the wires were right inside his arse, so the current didn't have to go through the skin. And they attached another wire to his head so that the current would flow right through his body. The girls were actually trained electricians. They knew what they were doing. Maybe they cranked up the voltage using a mcGyver type device they put together in a real hurry.Meh, come on Kevin Smith. This really felt like an abysmal student film.The rest of the shorts are better, although there's a lot of unsatisfying endings. It's a decent horror anthology, inconsistent but better than the average single horror release in my opinion.

HOLIDAYS is an anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.Where this anthology fails is in being an anthology. The idea is very good, but unfortunately the weak spots bring the film as a whole down. The worst segment, amazingly, was from the biggest name attached: Kevin Smith, and his take on "Halloween". It had such potential to make a comment on young women who are duped into coming to LA, or it could have been an interesting witch story, but he squanders it on a throwaway idea.Some segments are just alright. "Valentine's Day" is not bad, but not good. It has some darkly humorous moments, a nice homage to "Carrie", and a twist that is somewhat predictable but still rather sweet.The two best were "Easter" and "Father's Day". The Easter story deserves lots of credit simply for the creature design, but also takes on a mythology that is to be commended. The Father's Day story is my favorite. I love how it was crafted, I love the lighting, the voice delivery, everything about it. The only thing that could have made it better is if the last two or three seconds had been cut off.So, as a whole, "Holidays" is only worth a 5 or 6. Some segments could easily be 7 or 8, but they are weighted down by the worst. In this case, that is Kevin Smith. I enjoyed both "Red State" and "Tusk" (which puts me in the minority, I believe), but there was just no spark of creativity in this one.