Vacation

I watched the movie for a while without laughing once, and just when I was about to start watching something else, Christina Applegate really got going and she kept me entertained till the end. All three stars go to Christina. If she hadn't given such a great performance, there wouldn’t be anything worth rating. (08/01/2016)

No, this comedy doesn't completely measure up for me, but I have to say that considering that American comedies are usually dumb, this is one of those where there are moments that are genuinely funny. There's a lot of awkwardness here, but the bullying of the older brother, for example, is perfect. Chevy Chase is tragic, which is a shame, but other than that, I had quite a good time. (10/20/2015)

An aggressively unpleasant film with an unimaginative and sloppy plot, unsuccessful and utterly embarrassing jokes, poorly-directed and miserable acting, and with a lot of self-serving and unnecessarily exaggerated vulgarities and distastefulness. The story is totally nonsensical and incoherent and breaks apart into a tangle of unrelated scenes in which desperately unsympathetic protagonists act like incompetent lunatics so that they can eventually end up in a mess of feces, vomit, or cow guts. The equivalent of comedy hell. (08/26/2015)

I liked that the writers went the official way and straight-up refer to the original Griswold family. We even got to see Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase at the end, which has made me very happy. But those might be the biggest upsides, because apart from that, the movie is pretty boring. The first half is only funny because the ugliest car ever – Honda Tartan Prancer – makes an appearance. And they milk it as much as possible. As soon as the second half comes, the comedy starts to decline. It’s not like it’s not there at all, it just doesn’t have what it takes for me to say: “well done”. (05/20/2018)