Hello everyone!! I am so excited to embark on year 2 of Comfy Cozy Cinema watching with Lisa over at Boondock Ramblings. We had so much fun last year and this year will be even better, I can feel it in my bones. We each chose a few movies, which I love because it makes us watch movies we would maybe never watch on our own. Lisa was my introduction to Cary Grant and so many good movies and I would never have gotten around to them without our buddy watching.

The movie of the week this week is What We Did on Our Holiday, which is a dark comedy starring David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, and Billy Connolly. Rosamund Pike and David Tennant have three children, and are going through a contentious separation. They are always fighting it seems like, and according to the kids, always yelling at each other. Lottie, the oldest, seems to be particularly sensitive to the situation. However, they have to suck it up so that they can travel as a family to visit Doug’s (David Tennant) family in Scotland for Doug’s father’s birthday extravaganza. His father Gordie, played by the delightfully hilarious Billy Connolly, has terminal cancer, and Doug wants his own little family to keep quiet about the separation and divorce proceedings. His brother Gavin (played by Ben Miller who also played Billy’s favorite DI on Death in Paradise) is loaded and is hosting the lavish affair. He is also married and has a teenage son.

Doug and Abi (Pike) arrive with the kids in tow, and we immediately sense that Lottie and her grandfather have a special relationship. It was very sweet to watch, as she seemed like she didn’t have a family member she really fit with until seeing her with Gordie, who seemed to actually listen to her – and give her pretty good if not always the most prudent advice. Billy and I both decided that real life Billy Connolly would be an awesome grandfather to have. As Gordie he was spectacular and was one of those characters you would love to actually hang out with – maybe we just want to hang out with Billy Connolly.

There is an undercurrent of tension and dysfunction between all of the adults in this movie, except for Gordie. Abi, Doug, Gavin, and his wife Margaret all have their issues and also issues with each other, in the case of Doug and Gavin, who do not have the closest relationship.

And this is where the craziness and hijinks begin. To say anymore here would be to completely spoil the movie though and I don’t want to do that.

I thought this movie was so fun – however, there are some heavier moments in this movie that just come at you. Thank goodness the kids add some levity, and dare I say, outshone everyone else in this movie? There were a few times I literally laughed out loud at some of their lines. And of course, at Billy Connolly’s lines.

Billy and I both loved the scene where Gordie has all of his grandchildren in his old truck, and they are heading to the beach. He lets the kids drive, meaning Mickey can toot the horn, while Jess yelled out the window, and Lottie, who is a bit of an overthinker and rule follower, steers. He controls the pedals. It was just really cute, and he tells Lottie “to live more and think less” which is actually really good advice. What a fun moment that had to be even to film for those kids, and had that been real, a fun memory for kids with their grandfather. I remember my own grandfather lived on a mountaintop in Pennsylvania and he had a collection of old cars, like real old, Model T’s and Model A’s. He would take me down the mountain in those cars at breakneck speeds and it was terrifying but also so much fun!! I am sure my parents didn’t think so, but I will remember that feeling and those rides down the mountain forever.

I also loved the way Rosamund Pike dressed in the movie. Is she not seriously so beautiful? These outfits were that quiet elegance and so classic, yet also casual which was perfect for her character in the situations she was wearing them.

This is just a heartwarming movie, and includes vikings and food fights and fiddle playing and it was just a really good watch. I particularly loved the very ending scene!

I am looking forward to the next movie, which is another Lisa pick (actually the first couple are all hers, then some of mine, then they get mixed up together). We will be watching The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and posting about it on the 12th! Feel free to post with us, the linky for each movie will be up for a week starting on the day of posting.

And today’s linky is here! You can find our posts and post your own. If you don’t want to post and just want to comment and read along that is fine as well! Just get cozy at home and enjoy!

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