Christmas Vacation | | Cast : | Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis | | Director : | Jeremiah S. Chechik | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | December 01, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | October 07, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Christmas Vacation is "the gift that keeps on giving!" | Content
 | The third and best of the Chevy Chase-National Lampoon series kicks off with Clark Griswold hosting this year's Christmas celebration. Of course, that means lots of family, welcome or otherwise, showing up at his door. Randy Quaid, playing cousin Eddie, shows up at Clark's home with his R.V., a total heap. Clark does his best to have a good time, but nothing goes right. He's brought to the breaking point with annoying relatives, Chistmas lights that refuse to work, and a bonus that causes him to flip out.
Christmas Vacation is a laugh a minute. You know people liked the movie when they keep repeating some of the one-liners. Here's some of my favorites:
"You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitro-glycerin plant."
"We're going to have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny F-n Kay."
"That there's a quality item."
I watch this movie every year, usually right after Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Not to be missed. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | The Best Christmas Movie EVER!! | Content
| This is mine and my husbands all time favorite christmas movie (his nickname is "Sparky" lol.) We have it on VHS and just upgraded it to DVD since the VHS is worn out. This movie is just great, I recommend it to everyone. We watch every year 2 or 3 times. Even the kids love it now. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 10, 2005 | | Summary | Classic Christmas Comedy | Content
| This is one of my favourite Christmas movies.
It's all about a Father, who wants his family to have the perfect family Christmas - but like everybody, he's not perfect.. and he causes some major problems.
It has all you need in a good Seasonal film. Humour, morals (come on, the ending had something) and the ability to make you really excited about Christmas, especially if it's close.
I only saw it for the first time last year - but I watch it quite a lot. It's one of those films which are addictive. You watch it once and you watch it again and again and again.
It's a real Christmas classic for me.
Just a warning though: It's not your average Christmas film. There's some rude words and suggestions in it. Thing is though, I think it's been edited for the UK.. because something that has been described in the movie wasn't on my DVD.
10/10 - Great Seasonal Comedy |
| Rating | | | Date | April 19, 2005 | | Summary | The number one Christmas comedy ever! | Content
| Hands down, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is the best Christmas comedy ever filmed. I make it habit to watch this movie about ten million times between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Even after seeing the film so many times that I can recite it word-for-word, Christmas Vacation remains as hilarious and entertaining as the previous holiday season. More than just a seasonal film, it's one of those rare comedies that it near perfect from beginning to end.
Following the ongoing exploits of Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and the Griswold family, this particular rendition of the classic Vacation movies is arguably the best. As in the previous films, Clark's goal is to create the perfect vacation for his family. Only this time, instead of hitting the road for Wally World, the Griswolds stay at home in suburban Chicago.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (mere months away from signing on to play Elaine on Seinfeld) makes several appearances as Clark's annoying, yuppie neighbor Margot - a character accompanied by her equally yuppie partner, Todd (Nicholas Guest). Randy Quaid makes a return appearance as Cousin Eddie (playing the same role from the original Vacation film). As Clark's less-cultured relative, Eddie is a man whose "heart is bigger than his brain". Beverly D'Angelo also returns in her previous role as Clark's wife, Ellen.
When Clark vows to create "the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever," things naturally go awry. With the Griswold family and their in-laws living under one roof, the relatives constantly get on each other's nerves. Clark sets out to decorate the house for Christmas, and his quest culminates in a 25,000 light extravaganza that cover every square inch of the house. In the process, he nearly breaks his neck several times and knocks out Todd and Margot's window with a flying lance of roof gutter ice.
The laughs multiply several times over when Cousin Eddie arrives uninvited and parks the family RV in the Griswold driveway. He brings his wife Catherine, their two kids Ruby Sue and Rocky, and their lovely dog "Snots". The crescendo of disaster steadily increases as Christmas Day approaches with the agony compounded by Clark's failure to receive his annual Christmas bonus. Clark's big Christmas surprise for the family is that he's putting in a pool, but in order to start work as soon as the ground thawed out, he had to put down a hefty deposit which his check won't cover without the Christmas bonus.
After a Christmas Eve in which the turkey explodes, Aunt Bethany's cat electrocutes itself, Uncle Lewis burns down the tree, and a squirrel gets loose in the house, a late night knock on the door gives Clark hope. A deliveryman hands him an envelope which fell between the seats - the fabled Christmas bonus.
But when the bonus turns out to be a membership in the Jelly-Of-The-Month Club instead of the cash he expected, Clark goes nuts. He extensively curses his boss, Frank Shirley, and tells the family that a nice Christmas gift would be Shirley wrapped in big red bow. Wanting to do something nice for Clark, Cousin Eddie takes the request literally. He kidnaps Mr. Shirley and delivers him to the Griswold house where Mr. Shirley reveals he cut out Christmas bonuses this year. Clark confronts him, and Mr. Shirley agrees that it was the wrong thing to do. He reinstates the bonuses, and tells Clark to add twenty percent. The whole family erupts in celebration, but their Christmas party is soon crashed by a SWAT team which takes the house by siege.
Originally released in 1989, Christmas Vacation has surprisingly little content that makes it look "dated". As such, it's certain to be a holiday viewing tradition for generations to come...
The DVD Report |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | Un-Special Edition | Content
| Well I am a big fan of the movie and I got it of christmas on VHS a long time ago.This christmas,I got the SE DVD along with CV2 and, The movie deserves 10 stars out of 5, but the SE DVD deserves NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The commentary is AWFUL, because not only is Chevy chase not in it, but Beverly will not shut the f--k up about her hair and boobs, Quaid has a LOT to say, Miriam Flynn keeps on bragging about how big she is and everyone keeps on interrupting each other- VERY RUDE.
Another thing I noticed is that the ornament that comes with the DVD-It's GARBAGE. It's made of styrofoam- easy to break and we threw it away. Oh, and also that on both DVD's on the back there is a shot of the Griswalds with their tree by there owner. In the movie, it dosent include that.
So I will write a positive review when something SPECIAL of the movie will come out. |
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