National Lampoon’s Vacation
August 31st 2009 22:00
Holiday road
Today we look at our next John Hughes movie and it is his first real success as a writer with the now legendary National Lampoon’s goof-ball comedy Vacation.
Chevy Chase was on a hot streak after his success with Caddyshack (see post) and fit straight into his classic Griswold character, who was actually the complete opposite of Ty Webb from Bushwood Country Club.
All the mishaps that could happen do and while Beverly DeAngelo gets her cans out as usual, ‘Sparky’ (as she calls him) can’t get his mind off Christie Brinkley, who plays the classic ‘Girl in Ferrari.’
In some way this movie really is a white trash b-grade pile of dirt, but in another way it is a classic 80s comedy that has somehow managed to keep itself relevant more than 25 years later.
Besides – you gotta love Griswold, and it really has got some pretty funny moments.
But can someone explain one thing to me – what is with Americans and those wood-panel wagons? Who the hell thought of that?
“When I was a boy, just about every summer we'd take a vacation. And you know, in 18 years, we never had fun.”
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