The picture deals with Mister Hulot going to a holiday resort where he accidentally originates destruction and disaster . The movie is plentiful of original sketches . From the beginning to the end the good humor and bland comedy are continued . The film blends tongue-in-cheek , irony , giggles , joy , jokes , social critical and is pretty bemusing and entertaining .

In spite of runtime is overlong , the run is two hours and some , isn't boring neither tiring but funny . The gentle humor developed in the film is clever and thoughtful and the comic numbers vary between slapstick and surrealist . The argument is plain and simple though is only set in a hotel and beach isn't dreary . Jacques Tati is extraordinary as Mister Hulot , character he'll repeat in a sequel : ¨My uncle¨ . Direction and interpretation by Jacques Tati is magnificent and excellent . Alain Romain's score ( habitual musician of Tati ) is agreeable and cheerful . The motion picture received awesome reviews and deserves the complete knowledge because there are amount chuckles and entertainment . The picture is nowadays considered a European cult film .

Tati is simply one of the foremost artists of the cinema. I wish I had discovered him sooner. M. Hulot's Holiday was the second feature film he directed after Jour de fete (unavailable in America at the present time). It was also the first of the Hulot series, introducing us to one of the best and most endearing characters cinephiles are ever likely to meet: M. Hulot.

However, no matter how endearing Hulot is, make sure you don't come into a film like M. Hulot's Holiday expecting a laugh riot. This particular film is not (although Mon Oncle, if you're perceptive enough, is). The comedy here, although there are some hilarious moments, puts most of its trust in slow build-ups and extraordinary cleverness. This film is an attempt to make comedy beautiful, and it succeeds oh so well. You will love all the characters, and, as the week draws to a close, you may feel sad. Although at this point I like Mon Oncle more than M. Hulot's Holiday (I have seen Mon Oncle 3 times and Holiday only once),this one is still a masterpiece, of mood if not for anything else. 10/10.

The Hulot films by Jacques Tati are simple comedies that rely mostly on the pantomime of the lead character, Mr. Hulot. In this film, our bumbling hero is on vacation and stumbles from one problem to another--as seen though COUNTLESS sight gags. Unfortunately, the "misadventures" occur one after another after another and I found myself just getting tired. Unlike Mr. Bean (the TV show--not the movie),the pacing and disconnectedness of the bits put me off after the first half of the movie. In other words, because these occasionally humorous vignettes came so quickly and seemed, at times, just thrown together, it didn't hold my attention. Sight gag after sight gag after sight gag all strung together don't make for a good movie and few of these gags were especially funny.

Despite my complains about this film, it could be a lot worse. I just watched another Hulot film, MON ONCLE. It is the most famous of the series and actually won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film--despite being an incredibly dull film (and probably the worst film to win this award). Unlike MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY, the gags are much slower and very few and far between. While I could take or leave a film like MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY, I think I'd rather gargle razor blades than see MON ONCLE again--it was that bad and that overrated.