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)
三星
虽然赞姐这部变美了很多，但是和汤荷兰的感情戏真是又臭又多不好看啊，以及三代站一起那还是托比＞加菲＞＞＞＞＞＞荷兰
极其血腥怪诞，精神污染，肮脏污垢，看不下去怕自己跟着疯了
圣母且自私，不展示任何多元世界的奇观，纯靠逼逼叨，奇异博士后门没有锁，在scp收容所里建立一个所谓戒掉邪念互助小组，动不动就要改变你我他，恶棍的命都是命，普通人活该倒霉。以及mj在这里唯一的作用就是让加菲接住
梦开始的地方，结尾的Peter Parker 1 终于长大了，也因为是spider-man而开始失去了
7/10。这片作为去年票房第一我觉很合理，至少是一个没有滥用慢镜头的尊重运动的动作电影。虽然说这片也类同于漫威的诸多作品，某些情感来得太过突兀，某些冲突制造的有些僵硬，但至少关于群像，这些英雄与反派们的人物弧光大多是完整的——虽然这也多少依赖于过往七部蜘蛛侠电影的人物塑造，以及一大把顶级演员的出色演绎。
（当然在加菲的对比下更显得荷兰弟演技烂，加菲三秒钟的泪光就比荷兰弟整部电影演得好。）
废土这种风格像是香辛料，一味过猛，只会适得其反。
甚至一时之间无法用语言形容看完的感觉，手工制作的精细程度令人瞠目结舌，三十余年的制作周期，难以想象制作的背后付出了多少。一场光怪陆离的地狱旅途，视觉奇观层出不穷，隐喻丰富也具备解读乐趣，虚无，可怖，震撼。
特效挺好的，打斗也还不错。
总体非常矛盾的观影体验。编剧这样写等于花了三部的时间才勉强让荷兰弟版PP开始有“成长”的感觉，也就是说看完这部能明显感到从《美队3》第一次出现到现在快6年了，荷兰弟版PP居然一点成长也没有以至于居然使得“Peter Parker/Spiderman”这么个也许是最应该平易近人、被喜爱门槛最低的超英变得让人觉得讨厌(荷兰弟演员本人我倒是觉得还好，主要这么写真的是...)。而另一方面，作为当年看过的第一个美式超英电影，能看到托比回归出演PP/SM实在是非常感慨(甚至于见到威廉达福的绿魔跟莫里纳的章鱼博士我都感到很激动)；而加菲尔德的《超凡蜘蛛侠》很可惜还没看过，他在这部里的性格和气质让我感觉得赶紧补下他的两部《超凡》了。最后，这么好的元素拍成这样，只能说“有钱能使鬼推磨”。两星半。
看到2代飞身接住MJ时的表情，突然感觉很伤感，那一刻他应该既开心又难过吧，开心的是这一次他终于接到了，难过的是眼前的这个人却不是格温……
太满 想想可能是定格动画这种匠气过重的形式不够灵 很难打动
就很工业化，视效方面有些亮点，演员马马虎虎，小虫还是年轻人的成长戏码，多元宇宙的这些设定，都是剧本上的偷懒，老反派都拉出来，没啥特别趣味，因为不吃蜘蛛侠情怀，所以三虫同框也不是很惊喜。
安德鲁加菲尔德，我恨你，你为什么要回来演这个破片子还继续该死地可爱。
弱智剧情完全浪费了三代同框的创意，最儿戏的一部超英电影，看完只让人觉得这世界果然不能交给一个幼稚无脑的蜘蛛侠。心疼奇异博士。
100%遛粉电影，除了加菲接住MJ那一幕，剩下的每秒都让我白眼翻到后脑勺且想冲进屏幕掐死荷兰弟。讲真，没有好的续集创想大可以不拍，至于外网的逆天口碑，我看🇺🇸人也快疯了。
三虫对五反，这已经是完结篇能放出的最大招了，一代老于一代，关于能力和责任的大言一直没变，反派逐个亮相，所有人搅一块儿，不是为了谁死，而是修复，把反派都洗白，让情怀泛滥，有些人舍不得忘，但又不得不说再见。
很中二的开始，适合让埃德加赖特拍，后面又是严肃又是煽情的就很尴尬。
开篇坠落呼应着结尾的号令待发。光怪陆离的游历，分不清是堕入了人间地狱，还是去到了蛮荒外星。所见所闻的种种惨状及酷刑，原来都提取自来客的自身记忆。时空一再被敲碎后拼回原状，然而最可珍贵的遗产，也只是关于零和各种可能性的演算。收官略拖沓，破坏了原有的节奏。
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