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Wow! Such a good movie.

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This movie is a great chick flick. I definitely recommend it. Melissa Joan Hart as the main actress did a great job in the beginning when it opens up as she is doing her hair you can tell that she is going somewhere important. Melissa Joan Hart is also on a TV series Melissa and Joey, also Sabrina the teenage witch. She started out as a young actress and is now very famous.Mario Lopez who is the main actor in this movie did a great job. He is originally famous for saved by the bell. In this movie you got to see him as a mature grown business man getting ready to propose to his girlfriend. When Melissa takes him by surprise and kidnaps him so that he can play her fake boyfriend is a great story line.The storyline provides great chemistry between the actors and actresses and the ending took me by surprise. It was so cute.The supporting actors and actresses did a good job. The parents didn't really act like normal parents. They just went with whatever they're daughter said about her boyfriend. But the fact that she had to lie about her boyfriend just to please her parent is sad.

First time seen this movie tho I ain't been able to hold on to the end. Very disappointing. When I was young, kept watching teen sitcom Clarissa on Nickelodeon but this is yikes and yuck. What I had done in the shoes of David were nothing else than breaking her father's nose like Hi and beating up smiley mom and smashing the whole furniture that would have surely led to the point of no return I mean, the family members themselves had called the police and the cause of this aggressive and brutal defense would have been cleared at once. But this case, the movie must have ended in some minutes thereafter very shortly. Waste of celluloid tape.

If you're like me and of a certain age, you might remember growing up with Melissa Joan Hart's kooky, wired, somewhat off the wall, softly spoken and rather trivial TV shows on a weekday afternoon or weekend morning, or whenever they were. The boys and girls of us whom watched the shows a decade plus ago have grown up; filled out; expanded in mind and I'm sure, gone on to different things since. Catching up with Holiday in Handcuffs; a 2007, American, made for television piece; carries an odd sense of nostalgia despite being only a few years old at the time of writing; this is principally because Melissa Joan Hart who, certainly as a screen talent, appears to have stuck to where she was all those years ago. Seeing her play out the pretty-but-dorky; meaning well but not quite nailing it caricature, who struggles along in life and with her family members, might cause some of the audience to flashback as they sat cross legged on the floor, in front of their parents' old TV set on a Sunday morning before anyone else had got up, or indeed, a weekday afternoon straight after school, as they watched Hart do her thing. It's just that this time, there are a few adult gags sprinkled on top as well as a severely dumbed down supporting cast.Hart's character is Gertrude Chandler referred to sometimes as 'Trudie', a sassy, upbeat, kooky-kooky girl, who's left her rural roots behind and is now living in New York City. She's better off than she thinks she is, with a boyfriend; a reasonably good looking apartment that would look even nicer if she bothered to tidy it up every now and again as well as a pretty decent job (although she hates it, obviously) as a waitress at a neat little restaurant in which she is friends with a number of the employees and the manager comes across as a reasonably fun kinda guy – the horror. Then, hark, a job opportunity comes along in the form of an interview with a guy her father knows. But, to the absolute, agonising horror of-it-all, things drastically fall apart in a manner we know is pretty serious because the rapid and distorted manner of the voice-overs. The disasters that strike come in the form of the boyfriend leaving, which Trudy doesn't seem all that upset about to be brutally honest, and the job interview is missed – the employer cruelly bringing down a shutter over a glass door, and a curtain over her chances, as Trudy looks on in agony. Explaining to them that she'd been somewhat involved in a traffic accident along the way to the interview might've helped in at least getting them to give her a chance. But that would be the normal thing to have happen, and in a high-concept comedy like Holiday in Handcuffs, people do; think and say rather daft and unrealistic things at every turn. The Christmas period is well into its full swing, and a meeting with her mother and father at their quaint, rural wood cabin is coming up – only she's promised to bring home a boyfriend with her so they can meet. If you've kept up so far, that isn't happening because of the aforementioned dumping but, Trudy has a trick up her sleeve and some binds up the other: she swipes Mario López's David Martin from the café in which she works, and it's off to the country they go as all Freudian Hell breaks loose.If you cannot see the eventual arc the film will take from both the above premise and about forty minutes in, then you aren't trying. The film is schmaltzy, annoyingly unfunny and misguided-to-the-max; focusing on a kidnap scenario in which an innocent is snatched by a supposed madwoman and dragged off to the middle of rural nowhere in which her additionally zany, kooky and quite mad relatives gather. There are scenes at the house in which David tries to escape that are quite terrifying looking at things from his predicament, as chase around a kitchen and the rush to call someone on a cellular phone from the supposedly safe confines of a bathroom play out. On one occasion, he gets outside but is greeted by the freezing, snowy wilderness and Hart's character dominantly declaring in the doorway that "no one is coming to help" and that "there's nothing but snow and ice in all directions". Creepy, but done so through a bizarre filter of the kidnap fantasy as perpetrated by that actress we all know from those shows years back.Along the way, we get leery and jokey references to sado-masochism by elderly hicks whom work in isolated petrol stations that sell fluffy handcuffs and play daft banjo music over their tannoys. I guess the aim is to evoke the memory of Deliverance and/or anal rape what with the 'held against one's will' premise we've got going on; but doing so in a manner that wants to you laugh. This as characters, such as the father, have it all laid out in front of them but are running on the high concept and thus, don't believe any of it. Holiday in Handcuffs is a kidnap fantasy as instigated by that girl on TV you might've grown up watching; a bizarre mixture of parents treating their daughters like a ten year old girl and questioning their sexuality through lack of exposure to men with fluffy; snowy; sugary crap that'll eventually say: "What you might have always wanted could be right in-front of you but not in a form that's initially obvious". It is nonsense, of course; a soulless, summer-shot pile of dreck that has an agonising Oreo Biscuits product placement inclusion despite, I'm sure, airing on ABC with advertisements anyway. The sad fact is, a film all about Maria the Maid would have been ten times more interesting.

You may find this funny or you may like wonder at the intelligence of all involved in this tripe.Lopez is one of those actresses who acts loopy very well, and loopy this character is. Needs a boyfriend. Hers has dumped her just as she's taking him off home for Christmas to intro to desperate parents longing for her to settle down. When you see what happens in the rest of the film, you understand very well why he dumped her - he got out while the going was good. So Lopez abducts at gunpoint some bloke she encounters in a restaurant. She lashes him to car seat. At her family home which is in the back of a snow-swamped beyond, he tries desperately to get them to help him escape but they all think he's got a wild sense of humour and hasn't their girl found a great guy etc. You can now see that her family's as insane as she is and all this indicates to any normal man that this is not a family you should ever get involved with.The guy eventually gives up trying to escape given that no-one will help him, every effort he makes is thwarted. At this stage I started jumping through the recording, picking up on the odd moments that indicate he gradually gets to like these lunatics and especially the ghastly heroine.Well, each to his or her own, and perhaps these idiots are his type. I can see too that some people will find this movie great fun so I wouldn't disagree the varying reports on this website of it. You can see it as hilarious farce or as pathetic rubbish, take your pick. But I would suggest you don't attempt to buy the DVD before you've seen the movie and decided if you can stomach it as if you can't that DVD will soon be in the bin. I love real farce, but in my view this is such staggeringly inept farce that you could include it the list of movies so ghastly that they are almost funny.