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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:20
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The third in the series of National Lampoon's 'Vacation' films, this sequel concerns the Griswold family's holiday get-together. This time they're trying to have a picture book, old-fashioned... The third in the series of National Lampoon's 'Vacation' films, this sequel concerns the Griswold family's holiday get-together. This time they're trying to have a picture book, old-fashioned Christmastime--even though all the in-laws are dropping by, including Clark's (Chevy Chase) redneck cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid). Looks like it's going to be a real holly-jolly holiday--if they can make it through. [More]
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, John Randolph
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, William Hickey, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki
Director: Jeremiah Chechik
Director: Jeremiah Chechik
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Producer: Tom Jacobson, John Hughes
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Reviews for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The human frailty at the center of the story makes the jokes all the funnier. Holiday films are rarely as priceless.
As always the visual gags are more prevalent then the verbal ones, and are lit up in neon so you can't miss them.
One of the great unanswered questions in Hollywood is how Chevy Chase still gets work.
Many of those episodic moments, particularly in the film's first half, are hilarious. But as picture goes along there are far too many dry spells.
Christmas Vacation never quite reaches the levels of suburban-angst rage that other Vacation movies do, but it does have its moments.
It may be forgotten when it comes to Top 50 lists of comedys, but it's consistently funny, a mini-classic of it's kind and a re-watcher when it comes to Christmas.
Christmas Vacation may not be a fancy package, but it is a diverting stocking stuffer.
Sequence after sequence seems to contain all the necessary material, to be well on the way toward a payoff, and then it somehow doesn't work.
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