In Last Holiday, Georgia Byrd, played by Queen Latifah, is a frumpy sales clerk whose life is turned upside down after a she discovers she has a rare disease and has three weeks left to live.

Having decided she's wasted enough of her life as a wallflower, Georgia quits her job, packs her bags and jets off to Europe to blow all her money on her dream vacation.

Back home, Georgia's crush and fellow employee, Sean Matthews, played by LL Cool J, tries to track her down after she skips town suddenly.

There are only a few scenes between Latifah and LL, and their on-screen chemistry is awkward and sometimes hilarious. The only thing LL lends to the film is his eye-candy appeal.

This remake of a 1950 film follows the fantasy trip of what it would be like to blow one's life savings. Georgia arrives at her ritzy destination in the snowy Czech Republic. The setting is beautiful, but I still can't figure out why half the characters speak French in this former Soviet state.

As her vacation unfolds, Georgia is transformed into a sophisticated and outgoing woman as many of the hotel's guests wonder who this mystery woman is. There are plenty of Pretty Woman moments as Latifah sheds her working class uniform for designer duds and wines, and dines to her heart's delight.

During her stay at the resort, Latifah's lighthearted attitude attracts her a new set of powerful friends who never would've looked her way before her transformation including the CEO of her former company, Matthew Kragen, played by Timothy Hutton and his mistress, Ms. Burns (Alicia Witt). One by one, these power brokers learn from Georgia to seek a different kind of success, one that doesn't include moral compromises. Through a number of heart-to-hearts, all the characters transform except for Hutton, who is obsessed with finding out Georgia's motives.

While watching the film, I felt as though I were sitting through a feature-length infomercial for a spa or the Food Network -- I can't decide. A large chunk of the film is dedicated to food, with a cameo from famous French actor Gérard Depardieu as Chef Didier and even from Food Network icon, Emeril Lagasse.

This film is all about enjoying the tastes of life, and the food should be considered for a supporting role. Among the many life lessons Latifah's character dishes out to her cynical rich friends, "The secret to life is butter" is by far a line that stuck out in my mind.

With director Wayne Wang at the helm, I had high expectations for this film since his previous success with the on-screen adaptation of The Joy Luck Club. Although visually appealing, Holiday seriously lacks the cohesion of his previous works.

For a comedy, this film seriously lacks any genuinely funny scenes. There's a snowboarding fiasco and lots of pokes at the "funny Europeans."

Latifah, usually a strong presence on film, provides little comic relief and her signature sass is a little tired.

The theme of "live life to the fullest" beats the audience over the head as Latifah gives herself routine pep talks in the mirror reminiscent of Al Franken's character Stewart Smiley on Saturday Night Live rather than genuine self-reflection.

I won't give away the ending, but one can guess the story doesn't end in tragedy and everybody learns his/her lesson in the end.

The only thing this film left me with was a large appetite.

Last Holiday does succeed in showing the possibilities of living your life to the fullest, but it only works if you have an obscene amount of money to burn.