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National Lampoons Vacation
On an exciting journey that began by taking Ad Clark Griswold to his family to a different place. The man found himself a consumer when he took his family across the country to Wally World, a California theme park. Things are quite wrong, but Clark Griswold loses his thought of a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari that changed his life later.
3 June 1942, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
11 October 1968, Parsippany, New Jersey, USA
5 March 1936, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
1 May 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
24 July 1968
17 December 1946, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
31 October 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 November 1927, Reading, Ohio, USA
May 21, 2013
A timeless comedy. Hysterical.
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.
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.
May 25, 2013
The Griswolds are a national treasure.
July 31, 2013
The humor in Vacation also taps into something beyond the trials and travails of a road trip gone wrong.
August 02, 2013
Thanks largely to Chevy Chase's zaniness and comic timing this is a very funny movie.
May 07, 2008
National Lampoon's Vacation is an enjoyable trip through familiar comedy landscapes.
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.
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.
August 30, 2004
The result is a confident humor and throwaway style that helps sustain the laughs -- of which there are quite a few.
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 24, 2014
Director Harold Ramis, who went on to make Groundhog Day, keeps the silliness coming at a fast and furious pace.