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What We Did on Our Holiday

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United Kingdom · 2014
Rated PG-13 · 1h 35m
Director Guy Jenkin, Andy Hamilton
Starring David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller
Genre Comedy, Drama

Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability.

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Variety by Charles Gant

Re-creating the show’s winning formula of three amiably precocious young children trading smarts with fondly exasperated parents, the pic swings for a much more eventful story arc, with mixed results.

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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

What We Did On Our Holiday sets up a sturdy comic scenario and then proceeds to head in another direction altogether—one that’s nearly impossible to anticipate, making the film much more of a goofy delight than would have seemed likely at the outset.

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Village Voice by Sherilyn Connelly

Jones and Connolly have terrific chemistry, particularly as Lottie works through the fact that adults encourage dishonesty and lying when it suits their own needs, and that secrets are more pervasive than openness.

60

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

There’s a good trickle of laughs running through this, and an observation of British familydom that’s just on the credible side of cringeworthy.

60

Time Out London by Trevor Johnston

For a while the film broaches genuinely unexpected comedic and emotional territory, and while matters eventually return to the safe haven of pat formula, at least there’s been some vim and vigour added to the amiable observational humour and likeable performances.

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