Review – Last Holiday

One small casting problem brings this whole picture down like a house of cards in a stiff wind. With a different actor in the lead, this would at worst have been an inoffensive little situation comedy about a woman who decides to live life to the fullest after her doctor tells her she’s dying. But our heroine is played by Queen Latifah, which introduces a horrible element of racial politics to the mix. Her new fatalism primarily endows her with the power to sass back to white folks. Indeed, as she blows her IRA funds at a swanky European resort, just about every joke is predicated on how wacky it would be if black women were rich. Aside from Tim “Mail It In” Hutton, the cast does their best with what they’ve got to work with. Unfortunately, what they’ve got to work with is crap. See if desperate