Film Review – What We Did on Our Holiday

The family road trip comedy takes on unusual gravity in “What We Did on Our Holiday,” which combines a sense of domestic chaos with the very real experience of death. While it traffics in combative behavior in strained relationships, there’s warmth to the film, watching directors Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (who also script) labor to maintain an inviting tone that doesn’t sour as the tale works through uncomfortable discoveries. “What We Did on Our Holiday” is an amusing picture with a few laugh-out-loud moments, but it’s more interesting as storytelling tightrope walk, studying the feature as it navigates troubling turns of plot. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com