National Lampoon's Vacation National Lampoon's Vacation
1983 Directed by Harold Ramis
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Every summer Chevy Chase takes his family on a little trip. This year he went too far.
The Griswold family are on a quest. A quest to a Walley World theme park for a family vacation, but things aren't going to go exactly as planned, especially when Clark Griswold is losing all thought towards a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari.
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Turns out I had seen the last 35 minutes of this movie before but not the whole thing. From start to finish I enjoyed this classic comedy. Chevy Chase does a great job in this movie. I kinda want to know if Wally World was filmed at a real theme park, probably was, and where it is cause it looked like it would be fun to go there. Anyway this is a hillarious movie about a road trip going horribly wrong. This is a great movie from start to finish. John Hughes wrote a great movie here. It's very well written and acted. Well worth a watch.
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Film 3 of "The December Project" 2012
98 minutesI haven't seen this movie in about 10 years, and although some of the comedy is dated, I still think it's damn funny. For most people, this probably doesn't hold up very much, I find a lot of people don't feel that Chevy Chase comedy from the 80's to hold up, but I still have a lot of fun with this.
This is definitely Chevy Chase at his peak if you ask me, he is great in this. The infamous Clark Griswold is one of the best comedic characters, he is simply an idiot that means well and is arrogant to boot, always pretending to know everything about everything and looking…
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54/100
As someone who spent much of his childhood being carted all over the Western United States in a station wagon (and later an RV), I could definitely relate to this movie, which is why I saw it a dozen or more times back then. Hughes tries a little too hard to live up to the National Lampoon banner here, though, I now see, resulting in some jarring misjudgments; you can find humor in the death of a pet if you make it sufficiently cartoonish, as in A Fish Called Wanda, but there's really nothing funny about the thought of a dog being dragged behind a car for miles like James Byrd, Jr., no matter how aggressive you've made the…
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As close to perfect as comedy comes
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"I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. You're gonna have fun, and I'm gonna have fun... We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of you're assholes! I must be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!"
I can see why this is one of the best comedies ever.
Children casted out of the 4 movies: Best 3/4
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It's a classic for a reason. If you haven't seen this, you haven't lived.
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"I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. You're gonna have fun, and I'm gonna have fun... We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of you're assholes! I must be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!"
I can see why this is one of the best comedies ever.
Children casted out of the 4 movies: Best 3/4
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It is often fun to look back on decades past and pretend that all of the comedy movies made then were classics like Animal House or Airplane!, but National Lampoon's Vacation is in simplest terms a comedy movie that isn't actually funny.
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I'll admit I'm a touch late to the party with National Lampoon's Vacation, this is my first viewing and going in to the film I had rather high expectations thanks to me being a fan of the work of John Hughes and having heard mainly positive opinions on the film.
It's easy to see why Vacation is regarded as an 80's comedy classic, though one must be willing to overlook some of the dated humour if they wish to enjoy this classic in 2013 as a few rather tasteless jokes date the film. Thankfully they are easily overlooked.Chevy Chase is undoubtedly the star attraction here and drives the humour of the film home with his hapless, slightly naïve, family-man…
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54/100
As someone who spent much of his childhood being carted all over the Western United States in a station wagon (and later an RV), I could definitely relate to this movie, which is why I saw it a dozen or more times back then. Hughes tries a little too hard to live up to the National Lampoon banner here, though, I now see, resulting in some jarring misjudgments; you can find humor in the death of a pet if you make it sufficiently cartoonish, as in A Fish Called Wanda, but there's really nothing funny about the thought of a dog being dragged behind a car for miles like James Byrd, Jr., no matter how aggressive you've made the…
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It may be dumb, but it's a classic. Can't go wrong with it.
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It's a classic for a reason. If you haven't seen this, you haven't lived.
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I like the whole quadriology but the first and the third film (Christmas) are just hilarious. I like most of Chevy Chase's movies from the 80s and especially this one.
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Is it too much to ask that tastelessness be brought back to the art form it once strived so hard to reach? Watch Vegas Vacation, then tell me how much time you'd be willing to volunteer for my cause. Here's a button.