Chevy Chase,
Beverly D'Angelo,
Randy Quaid,
Diane Ladd,
John Randolph
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Chevy Chase, star of National Lampoon's Vacation and its sequel, is back as the paterfamilias of the Griswold family (including Beverly D'Angelo as his missus) to skewer the Yuletide season. Chevy mug... read more
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik, Jeremiah Chechik
Release Date: December 1, 1989
Keywords:
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National Lampoon
DVD Release Date: November 18, 1997
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April 3, 2012This is the weakest of the three but its still a very good Xmas comedy, probably the best ever really which still tells you allot. It hits all the right cozy Christmas notes and cliches but because its part of the Griswold series and has Chase hamming it up it still comes across ... read more
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December 22, 2011There's no Christmas that goes by without me watching this at least once. I've seen it so many times now, yet it's still as side-splitting as ever. Not only do we all have something we can relate to in it, but it's also the perfect marriage between slapstick and the more intellig... read more
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December 21, 2011Ellen: I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
"Yule crack up!"
Christmas Vacation has been one of my favorite Christmas films since I was five or six. When I was little, I watched the movie so many times that the VHS broke. Now, I still watch ... read more -
November 24, 2011For me, Christmas Vacation is a flawless Holiday classic. This is a brilliant, funny film that is a must see holiday film. Christmas Vacation is one of the few films that is still worth watching year after year during the Christmas season. The comedy bits here are very funny, and... read more
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October 22, 2011The Vacationers have taken a brave turn in their series, as CHRISTMAS VACATION is still as farcical as the last two (VACATION and EUROPEAN VACATION), but the first one not to be a road movie. In fact, if you believe that "vacation" is definitively travel, then this maybe ... read more
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June 26, 2011Christmas Classic. Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is at it again, this time he invites the family to his house for a family christams, but its just one mistake after another. It was as if I was watching the first Vacation, but with less vulgarity. The jokes are classic and some ... read more
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April 5, 2011Another hilarious movie from National Lampoon, following in the adventures of the Griswald family. This one is a Christmas classic, I watch it every year! If you haven't seen it yet, see it next Christmas, I highly recommend it.
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December 13, 2010The best Christmas movie ever made! Chevy Chase is too funny! :) I love this movie! :)
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December 10, 2010the movie had some funny moments at the beginning half of the film but the movie didn't get really funny until the last 45 minutes of the film but to me its an overrated Christmas movie, that's not a bad thing but i just think it has too much praise
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November 15, 2010fb100000040220993This is another classic entry in this series. To this day, I still laugh my ass off at all the dumb shit these fuckers pull. One of my favorite Christmas movies.
Critic Reviews
November 27, 2007
Variety Staff, Variety
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times
The new film does little more than reintroduce these familiar characters (with new actors playing the children, who would otherwise be college age by now) and let them get on one another's nerves in e... Full Review
February 13, 2001
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
One of the great unanswered questions in Hollywood is how Chevy Chase still gets work. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Christmas Vacation may not be a fancy package, but it is a diverting stocking stuffer. Full Review
November 7, 2011
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
[A] fairly perfect blend... of cartoon violence and mayhem and the pleasant lightness of a Christmas movie. Full Review
December 25, 2009
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this silly, warm little guilty pleasure that nails most of the trials and tribulations of spending the holidays with family. Full Review
November 27, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide
With enough sight gags to please slapstick fans and enough good-natured Christmas cheer to qualify as a good holiday film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation should keep most viewers occupied and p... Full Review
October 9, 2005
Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com
Easily the funniest of the four Vacation movies. Just try keeping a straight face when the uncouth Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) is on screen.
August 26, 2005
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
hilarious, a classic
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