I suspected this would be a bad movie but having enjoyed the original "Vacation" with Chevy Chase, and getting a free DVD loan from my public library, I watched it on a cold day when my wife was out. She definitely did NOT want to see it.
The premise is that Rusty Griswold who was a small boy in the original now has a family and lives in Chicago. He is a pilot for a smaller regional airline, it helps assure he will be home most days so he can spend time with his wife and two sons.
He overhears his wife tell a friend that she really hates the yearly vacation they take at a camp in the woods, so Rusty decides they will do something different, a family road trip ending up at Wally World in Southern California. Their route will take them through Memphis, where they can visit his wife's old college, and through Arkansas near Hot Springs. And on to Texas where they can visit his sister.
Virtually everything that happens to them is bad. And the humor is mostly related to sex, nudity, and vomiting after chugging beer. The language is filthy all the way through, even from the youngest son. It is mostly unfunny and mostly offensive.
The lone highlight is when they make it to San Francisco to the B&B run (badly) by his parents, so we see Chevy Chase as the old man Clark Griswold and Beverly D'Angelo as the old woman Ellen Griswold. Their son's rental car had been destroyed along the way so dad loans them a car to drive to Wally World, the old station wagon the family used for the 1983 trip.
It would have been nice to see the original child actors play themselves grown up, instead we have Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold, super-nice Christina Applegate as Debbie Griswold.
A sad and profane movie, an insult to the original "Vacation", and I won't even mention the Chris Hemsworth role and his scene where he is wearing a large fake penis under his briefs, going like that into the bedroom of the Griswolds. I also won't mention the scene where the whole family thought they were in a hot springs spreading healing mud on their faces when in fact they were in a raw sewage dump spreading feces all over their faces.
A pretty poor movie, I am ashamed that I saw the whole thing.
The premise is that Rusty Griswold who was a small boy in the original now has a family and lives in Chicago. He is a pilot for a smaller regional airline, it helps assure he will be home most days so he can spend time with his wife and two sons.
He overhears his wife tell a friend that she really hates the yearly vacation they take at a camp in the woods, so Rusty decides they will do something different, a family road trip ending up at Wally World in Southern California. Their route will take them through Memphis, where they can visit his wife's old college, and through Arkansas near Hot Springs. And on to Texas where they can visit his sister.
Virtually everything that happens to them is bad. And the humor is mostly related to sex, nudity, and vomiting after chugging beer. The language is filthy all the way through, even from the youngest son. It is mostly unfunny and mostly offensive.
The lone highlight is when they make it to San Francisco to the B&B run (badly) by his parents, so we see Chevy Chase as the old man Clark Griswold and Beverly D'Angelo as the old woman Ellen Griswold. Their son's rental car had been destroyed along the way so dad loans them a car to drive to Wally World, the old station wagon the family used for the 1983 trip.
It would have been nice to see the original child actors play themselves grown up, instead we have Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold, super-nice Christina Applegate as Debbie Griswold.
A sad and profane movie, an insult to the original "Vacation", and I won't even mention the Chris Hemsworth role and his scene where he is wearing a large fake penis under his briefs, going like that into the bedroom of the Griswolds. I also won't mention the scene where the whole family thought they were in a hot springs spreading healing mud on their faces when in fact they were in a raw sewage dump spreading feces all over their faces.
A pretty poor movie, I am ashamed that I saw the whole thing.