Newly Remastered on Blu-ray! This holiday season, Clark Griswold [CHEVY CHASE] vows his clan will enjoy “the most fun-filled family Christmas ever.” Before you can sing “Fa-la-la-la-lah,” he decks the halls with howls of folly in the perennial favorite National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Seeing is believing. There are 25,000 lights on the roof. An exploding turkey on the dining room table. A SWAT team taking siege outside. A festive supporting cast [including BEVERLY D’ANGELO, RANDY QUAID, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS, JULIETTE LEWIS, WILLIAM HICKEY and more]. And a John Hughes script full of wit, heart and sheer goofiness. Yule love it!Bonus Content:Commentary by Randy Quaid, Bevery D'Angelo, Johnny Galeckl, Miriam Flynn, Jeremiah Chechik and Producer Natty Simmons Theatrical Trailer
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Favorite holiday movie
A classic holiday movie. This is a must see. Laughs throughout the whole thing.
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A+
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M**K
Always yearly must watch hit
Love this Yearly must watch movies
J**N
Must see!!
Best Christmas movie ever!!!!!
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L**H
As described
Great
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Great
Great
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A perfectly hilarious family comedy with a few exceptions ...
It is a hilarious comedy. Even the kind that you could say tickled my funny bone in a great number of places during the first number of times that I see it. Especially scenes like where Clark Griswold finally loses it to the point of taking it out on his yard Christmas decorations over failing to have his house full of Christmas lights stay on after so many attempts to get them to work, and finally seeing them come on (though somehow, he fails to realize that the plug-in that they were plugged into was somehow wired into the light switch of their garage light, which his wife finally figures out at the last moment.) Another scene I find most funny is when he goes sledding down a mountain sloap full of snow ridiculously fast in a metal saucer that was lubricated with a special oil he claims his company was working on for a long time, and the way that whole setting looks, not to mention the fact that he crashes into a ballot box on a Walmart parking lot at the end of it. Plus, many of his clumsy and acting crazy scenes I find funny, though I favor scenes like the first two mentioned above. In terms of taste, it is things like this that are among what make things funny if not hilarious.Though I found a great deal of scenes funny and some even hilarious, I still give this movie four stars on a count of a few things I find inappropriate on a count of keeping good taste in humor besides all genres. First, there is some profanity and vulgarity that go beyond the boundaries of what would make it a great, hilarious family-friendly enough Christmas comedy like the Home Alone or Santa Clause movies, or Christmas with the Kranks.From how I found it overall to be, one way I would give it way more approval is if it had not been for up to several obscene words let alone there already being plenty of profane language and some crude jokes along with some crude references and several risque scenes, a couple which even has the main character being an adulterer towards his wife over a slutty female cashier he met at a mall. Plus, though you don't see any of this happen, the grotesquely positioned marking in a carpet of a cat who gets electricuted to death under a recliner by chewing on the cord of a strand of Christmas tree lights, might still cross the line of adequate refinement in humor for a good number of people. Even to the point whether you don't know whether it is right to laugh at the situation, or feel pity for it. Especially to all of us who love and get a kick out of cats. For the good of society, I would appreciate it had all of this kind of content been left out in place of whatever could have been able to be funny in taste and at the same time be clean.Even though there is nothing profane or vulgar about this, and I have no idea why this is, but I also find it strangly annoying that out of the way he talks to all other characters, the way Clark calls his son "Russ" in just about every single quote he says to him. Just like how many times he calls Eddie that in every sentence ever said to him, which he doesn't quite as much as with his son. By doing these, you can never tell if by addressing their names in just about every single sentence and in the way he does, if Clark is meaning it out of respect or contempt for them, of if the idea is that this is one way to make the whole set up loony. Also, though the sounds of her voice and her demeanor was easily humorous, the dementiated way that Aunt Bethany talked gets more annoying than funny pretty fast. It's almost like it was a mockery on the real life condition.of Alzheimer's or the worst kind of senility.If it weren't for all of these particular issues, it would be a hilarious Christmas comedy classic that would earn five stars from me. However, I bought it anyway, but for all of the reasons above, I was conflicted about if I should buy it for how much I have rented and watched it every Christmas.
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