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National Lampoons Vacation
The story tells about a man named Ad Clark Griswold, who found himself a consumer when he took his family across the country to Wally World, a California theme park. On that exciting journey, things seem to be going wrong as if everything was not going as planned. Things change when Clark Griswold loses all thought of a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari, and everything may change later.
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July 31, 2013
The humor in Vacation also taps into something beyond the trials and travails of a road trip gone wrong.
May 21, 2013
A timeless comedy. Hysterical.
May 25, 2013
The Griswolds are a national treasure.
August 24, 2014
Director Harold Ramis, who went on to make Groundhog Day, keeps the silliness coming at a fast and furious pace.
May 31, 2013
National Lampoon's Vacation is a comedic cross-country adventure like no other, thanks to Chevy Chase and the rest of the Griswold family.
June 24, 2006
The result is not so much a comedy about American values as a 2,500 mile skid on a banana skin. The visual gags come thick and fast, and are about as subtly signposted as the exit markers on a freeway.
August 02, 2013
Thanks largely to Chevy Chase's zaniness and comic timing this is a very funny movie.
June 24, 2015
Half-baked but occasionally hilarious, National Lampoon's Vacation gets a reasonable amount of mileage out of depicting the disaster-prone journey of a "typical" family of four, the Griswolds of suburban Chicago.
August 30, 2004
The result is a confident humor and throwaway style that helps sustain the laughs -- of which there are quite a few.
August 01, 2015
It's a pleasant diversion with a few memorable bits and a likable cast, but true comic invention is hard to locate in the meandering screenplay by the late John Hughes.
May 07, 2008
Despite plenty of gross-out gags and dumb slapstick bits, the careful viewer can occasionally detect some acrid and original satire in this 1983 film.
May 07, 2008
National Lampoon's Vacation is an enjoyable trip through familiar comedy landscapes.
