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Vacation (2015)
The promise of fun turns into one misadventure after another for the next generation of Griswolds and anyone who encounters them as they head for Walley World.
8 October 1943, New York City, New York, USA
22 November 2002, Lakeland, Florida, USA
3 November 1978, Manchester, England, UK
9 February 1976, New York City, New York, USA
May 27, 2016
Wacky hijinks ensue, some of them very funny, some dipping desperately into bad taste, some just falling flat. (Which, it's worth remembering, was the case with even the best films of this franchise.)
April 17, 2016
Ultimately "Vacation" 2015 is an unknowing spoof, aping a series of - rightfully or not - beloved films without understanding at all what made them tick.
July 31, 2015
There's so much dead air in the film that I wondered whether punchlines had been cleaved out to secure a PG-13 rating, but no: it's a hard, inexplicable R.
March 26, 2016
The writers have decided that the more dirty words you stuff in an 8-year-old's mouth, the funnier he becomes. Even before the family leaves Chicago, the audience longs for them to visit a bar-soap factory and feed Junior a few samples.
July 31, 2015
Helms' Griswold is a dangerous, moronic maniac, and the filmmakers' disdain for him rubs off on the audience.
August 05, 2015
You can't do much worse at the movies than Vacation.
July 30, 2015
It holds on to the original's acrid cynicism for the first 40 minutes or so before turning predictable and bland. There are some real, nasty laughs to be had here, but they're front-loaded.
July 31, 2015
It's as if Daley and Goldstein started with a list of disgusting topics - outré sex acts, human waste, pubic hair, projectile vomiting, cow cannibalism, et al. - and constructed a narrative around them.
May 04, 2016
It's a good indication of what to expect: a crass comedy that unfortunately fails to capture the charm of the original film.
February 25, 2016
This road trip isn't as bad as you might have heard, but it's not a journey I can honestly recommend taking.
August 13, 2015
I'm all for bawdy, politically incorrect, wildly inappropriate humor -- when there are consistent and genuine laughs to be mined from the material.
April 05, 2016
Vacation is definitely not the smartest of films and unlike the original, people will soon forget about its very existence.
