Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
Disappointed……拍的很空洞，乏善可陈。刻意避开叙事和煽情的结果就是空有画面和配乐，丧失了情感和温度。甚至连柬埔寨和金边的风味也无。还不如像开头那样拍三个男孩子的少年生活……PS.唯一的收获是看到野生科长，略显老态、有点心疼U ´꓃ ` U
全篇三分之一在尬舞，三分之一在炒冷饭，在最后的20分钟突然的转折来表达霸王龙小分队对老人的转变，一切都显得那么的突兀
但不得不说上影厂不愧是上影厂 画面的色调太舒服了 动画片里图图家的装修还有番豆小区都很好看 搬到大荧幕上以后更好看了 光是看这些我就很满足
故事的着眼点有些散乱，整体感觉还可以，但有一种这要是个国产片就肯定好看多了的感觉。。结尾看到导演说这是柬埔寨冲奥的电影，有点酸了，中国现在已经不会拿这样的片子冲奥了，甚至都很难看到这种国产片了。。
陪娃一起看的，感觉教育更大吧，最起码看完了以后，小孩知道了要关爱老人，然后恶作剧要是让人开心的恶作剧。
剧情完全是之前内容，一分不值，割韭菜都不要解释了，纤夫的爱居然都出来了。真的恶心人
太难看了，尴尬他妈给尴尬开门，尴尬到家了。编剧写成这样，对得起图图？
三分给情怀。
影片最后发起的活动也是呼吁大家多关爱福利院里的老人毕竟，他们的今天就是我们的明天。
这部剧主题不错 关爱老人. 但是内容有百分之70都是电视上的内容。 这样凑起来没有看头。
都会觉得害怕的程度[苦涩]
很失望，就是把之前的剧集缩略了一下，完全没有创新，深度也没有，还搞了莫名其妙的至少出现了四次的歌舞，花多少钱看都觉得亏，情节发展不自然，小朋友也不像小孩，图图也不糊涂了，强行升华主题
还可以，假期带着孩子去电影院看看，消磨时间，孩子很喜欢看
遇见可爱的你 生活一下子就不艰难了 夕阳也好晚风也罢都很甜。
抬头是白楼虫蛀的天花板，低头是父亲溃烂的黑脚趾。母亲抱怨噩梦不能说出来，想办法驱散咒语。眼前离开故居何尝不是噩梦搬演，这里居住着公务员和艺术家，却要这般没有尊严地离开。墙上贴着搬家公司的广告，嘲讽着男孩的街舞梦。补偿款修不好白楼的裂缝，蜂蜜治不好脚趾的溃烂，贫穷让人无法保有健全。
炒冷饭，这就是原来《大闹天宫》的上海制片厂吗？毁经典还给自己掉价，怪不得没拍片，千万别看。一星我感觉真的都多。
于平遥，对白楼和楼内邻人的塑造都还有点粗糙，看完细细想了想男主角和他的家人、朋友，觉得很多场景似乎还不太精确，总之觉得成片没有表达到这个题材该表达到的地方，有点隔靴搔痒😂
本来文化背景就有差异，拍的又如此平淡，导致实在无法产生一点点情感共鸣。
我感觉我坐在电影院里浪费了将近两个小时的时间。
纯牛马片，恰烂钱，都是动画片里的内容，就把几集动画片缝合一下，就上映了。我无法李姐
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