National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things predictably turn into a big disaster when the Griswolds must deal with their in-laws.
18 June 1914, Owatonna, Minnesota, USA
5 May 1951, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
31 October 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 June 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 August 1983, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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13 January 1961, New York City, New York, USA
15 November 1951, Columbus, Ohio, USA
29 November 1935, Meridian, Mississippi, USA
19 September 1927, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
30 May 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
November 07, 2011
[A] fairly perfect blend... of cartoon violence and mayhem and the pleasant lightness of a Christmas movie.
November 27, 2007
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 provide 97 minutes of goofy entertainment.
May 20, 2003
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 earnest.
August 26, 2005
hilarious, a classic
January 01, 2000
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.
November 27, 2007
Solid family fare with plenty of yocks.
January 01, 2000
Christmas Vacation may not be a fancy package, but it is a diverting stocking stuffer.
February 13, 2001
One of the great unanswered questions in Hollywood is how Chevy Chase still gets work.
December 25, 2009
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.
January 05, 2004
The best of the four "Vacation" movies.
December 02, 2014
In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Chevy Chase's family Christmas tree is a little full with a lot of sap, much like this movie. But it's a big-hearted fullness and it's a smoothly stirred sap.
October 09, 2005
Easily the funniest of the four Vacation movies. Just try keeping a straight face when the uncouth Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) is on screen.
