Synopsis
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Ed HelmsRusty Griswold
- Christina ApplegateDebbie Griswold
- Skyler GisondoJames Griswold
- Steele StebbinsKevin Griswold
- Chris HemsworthStone Crandall
- Leslie MannAudrey Griswold
- Chevy ChaseClark Griswold
- Beverly D'AngeloEllen Griswold
- Charlie DayChad
- Catherine MissalAdena
Recommendations
- 60
TheWrap
Vacation does occasionally spring to life, delivering the kind of ouch-inducing humor of personal humiliation and bad luck that we’ve come to know from the ongoing adventures of the Griswold family. But while those laughs are welcome, there aren’t quite enough of them to sustain the experience. - 58
Tampa Bay Times
Vacation is a Gen X comedy franchise rebooted exactly how audiences can expect in 2015, bawdier and less likable than whatever classic inspires it. - 50
Portland Oregonian
Nothing really connects, not the bullying brothers, not the frustrated parents, not the sight gags familiar to anyone who's seen the giveaway trailer. The whole production has a cheap, tacky look that the talented leads, Helms and Applegate, can't save despite considerable charm and effort. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The filmmakers’ unsubtle style is responsible for killing many of the jokes. But they do succeed with several of the performers. - 40
The Guardian
Helms, a funny performer, is just the face of a mining expedition for easy yuks out of a recognised title. What that says about our regurgitative culture is rather depressing. There’s so much nostalgia on our screens right now. I could really use a vacation. - 40
New York Daily News
After a while, Vacation starts to reek like a car when the kids have their shoes off. Really, though, that stench is a studio digging through its old titles, trying to find something fresh to remake. - 38
Movie Nation
With every desperate F-bomb, every “Dad, what’s a rim job?” crudity, every crass overreach into vulgarity, Vacation feels pointless, dated and dirty. - 20
Variety
Key to the success of the Vacation movies was their underlying sweetness — the sense that, for all their foibles, the Griswolds were a surprisingly functional lot. Families looked up at the screen and saw a version of themselves reflected back. Look at the new Vacation and all that stares back is a great comic void.
