Vacation is the first and only worth-while entry in the vacation series, which later included the awful european vacation, the hit and miss Christmas Vacation, and the bland Vegas Vacation.
It is a simplistic movie about the griswald families failed attempt to travel from Chicago to Wally World in California. Along the way Chase gets attracted to a babe in a Ferrari, the kids argue, the grandma dies and is left tied to a chair at her sons house, their car gets its hub-caps stolen in the ghetto, they crash in the dessert and get robbed by the local sherrif at the auto shop. When they finally get to Wally world, the park is closed, so Chase buys a gun to make the security let him in.
There are both good and lousy gags in this, but there are far more of the former. It all works out in the end. ***(Out of ****)
It is a simplistic movie about the griswald families failed attempt to travel from Chicago to Wally World in California. Along the way Chase gets attracted to a babe in a Ferrari, the kids argue, the grandma dies and is left tied to a chair at her sons house, their car gets its hub-caps stolen in the ghetto, they crash in the dessert and get robbed by the local sherrif at the auto shop. When they finally get to Wally world, the park is closed, so Chase buys a gun to make the security let him in.
There are both good and lousy gags in this, but there are far more of the former. It all works out in the end. ***(Out of ****)
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