Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)'s comments

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20 lists!! I feel so betrayed lol Going off the comments it's possible his future films improve but this one is such a bore. The comedy is forced and stiff. The only thing that made me chuckle was the suggestion made by one commenter here that this can compare to Chaplin or Keaton..... (it really doesn't).

6 years 10 months ago

fakirfikir

Although this movie is a start for an astonishing character such as Monsieur Hulot, this movie, in generally is boring. For e.g. Playtime is better than this movie, again same character Monsieur Hulot.

7 years ago

Matt Addis

If this passes for humor in France no wonder they think jerry lewis is a genius

3 years 1 month ago

Siskoid

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...

3 years 2 months ago

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.

12 years 9 months ago

monoglot

This pales in comparison to Tati's Playtime.

13 years 9 months ago

thyron

Any film with Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd or of course Charlie Chaplin is funnier than this.

3 years 3 months ago

Flapster_NL

Boring and pointless, not for me.

10 years 11 months ago

jacob_john

This one had its moments, but I liked his Jour de fete more.

12 years 5 months ago

Flowneppets

Not as funny as some of his later movies.

14 years ago

mightysparks

Painful.

12 years 7 months ago

jmars

Chaplin and Keaton may be funnier, but when it comes to pure charm, nothing can match this film.

9 years 1 month ago

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.

11 years 11 months ago

Timec

Painfully funny.

12 years 5 months ago