Nicholas on Holiday

2014 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Family

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 3783 3.8K

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Plot summary

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.

Director

Laurent Tirard Photo
Laurent Tirard

Top cast

Luca Zingaretti Photo
Luca Zingaretti as Le producteur
Valérie Lemercier Photo
Valérie Lemercier as La mère de Nicolas
Audrey Quoturi Photo
Audrey Quoturi as Maman à la sortie d'école
Kad Merad Photo
Kad Merad as Le père de Nicolas
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891.86 MB
1280*682
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.79 GB
1920*1024
French 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by merisoch 5 / 10

Nowhere near as good as Le Petit Nicolas

The director made the mistake of putting too much humor way too often. The end-result: most of the humor wasn't funny at all. In comparison, its prequel did not have humor as frequently, which allowed the plot to develop better and made it a much more memorable movie. I really wish this one had been more like its prequel.However, I'd love a sequel. Three reasons: 1. The first movie was awesome. 2. It was a great opportunity to learn French. 3. When I watched it for the second time without English subtitles it was much more enjoyable, maybe because of my limited knowledge of French.Nicholas's mom and dad were enacted by the same actors that'd enacted them in the first movie, which was great. Most other characters were enacted by new actors and were boring, except for Nicholas's grandmother and Nicholas himself -- they were great. But then there were characters who weren't that great. For example, one of Nicholas's friends was a boy who ate everything, including crabs, frogs and things that live inside seashells -- and they showed him eating these things -- not funny!As a native speaker of English, I liked that they included Djodjo (an English boy) in the movie. Unfortunately, unlike in the book, stories or the TV episode he did not speak any English, which I was hoping he would. I heard one English word throughout the movie. Of course there's no reason for me to expect to hear English in a French movie, but my hopes were quite high.No, I do not recommend watching this movie. It was a box office flop (which means it earned less money than what went behind making it). It earned a fifth as much money as Little Nicholas, but it took more to make it. You won't like it, not if you're a child, and especially not if you're an adult.
Reviewed by sarcasm_for_free 7 / 10

A vacation worth taking.

Charming comedy from France about a boy's holiday with his parents, set a few decades ago.Despite the flawed subtitles on Amazon that kept displaying 1 as 'I', I enjoyed almost every second of this kid's misadventures with his motley crew of friends. It has all the elements of traditional farce, with some misunderstandings and classic slapstick thrown in too.All the cast are great, and the director really captures what it must've been like in vacationing in a traditional seaside France town during the mid-20th century. Funny and entertaining for almost it's entire run length, this gets an easy 7/10 from me.
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