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I like Mr. Bean better. The tv show I mean, this is better than the movies.FiresonthePlain
Gentle, joyous comedy. Does Tati rival Chaplin and Keaton in terms of comic genius? I think so.Tjaden
Great satire of Europe's Americanization post-WWIIjmars
Chaplin and Keaton may be funnier, but when it comes to pure charm, nothing can match this film.dvdgrdnr
tried watching this last night, but had to give up after half hour. massively inferior to chaplin in terms of filmmaking and humour. my first tati film and i'm not sure i'd bother watching any more.Timec
Painfully funny.mightysparks
Painful.jacob_john
This one had its moments, but I liked his Jour de fete more.Flowneppets
Not as funny as some of his later movies.thyron
Any film with Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd or of course Charlie Chaplin is funnier than this.Flapster_NL
Boring and pointless, not for me.Matt Addis
If this passes for humor in France no wonder they think jerry lewis is a geniusSiskoid
Jacques Tati introduces us to his trademark character in Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, an early feature (1953) in which he's still perfecting his style, but it's practically all there already. While the summer holiday town is really the main character and doesn't need Hulot to be in the frame or even part of a joke, the film's central gag is that Hulot is a quiet, unassuming man (a silent film star in a sound picture, essentially), and yet he makes a lot of noise and creates disturbances through his obliviousness and clumsiness, thereby generating a good measure of empathy as he draws the ire of locals and vacationers alike. He's like the boy Denis, whose mother keeps shouting at him when things go wrong, because there's a fair chance it's his fault. He just didn't bring his mother along. Watching this movie is a lot like reading a series of 4-panel comic strips and 1-panel cartoons in your daily paper over the course of a summer. Visual gags, set-ups and punchlines, all quite amusing. And though it's a little slow and meandering, like a summer town, it ends on brilliant fireworks climax that had me in stitches, showing what Tati can do when he extends the comic strip to a full-pager. From there, a grace note, and it's back to the city to await winter...Duval Spit
I go back to this movie every year: I watch it as my spring break, I watch it when I can't leave my job in the summer, I watch it in the fall and winter to remind myself of vacation days. It still makes me smile.monoglot
This pales in comparison to Tati's Playtime.Showing items 1 – 15 of 18