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I'm all for bawdy, politically incorrect, wildly inappropriate humor -- when there are consistent and genuine laughs to be mined from the material.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Vacation
What could go wrong?
2015 · 1h 39m · R
Adventure, Comedy
Directed by
John Francis Daley
,
Jonathan Goldstein
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- John Francis Daley Director
- Jonathan Goldstein Director
- Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold
- Christina Applegate as Debbie Griswold
- Skyler Gisondo as James Griswold
- Steele Stebbins as Kevin Griswold
- Chris Hemsworth as Stone Crandall
- Leslie Mann as Audrey Griswold
- Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold
- Charlie Day as Chad
- Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold
- Keegan-Michael Key Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
27%
Tomatometer
Rotten
You can't do much worse at the movies than Vacation.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Rotten
There's so much dead air in the film that I wondered whether punchlines had been cleaved out to secure a PG-13 rating, but no: it's a hard, inexplicable R.
Calum Marsh, Globe and Mail
Rotten
It's as if Daley and Goldstein started with a list of disgusting topics - outre sex acts, human waste, pubic hair, projectile vomiting, cow cannibalism, et al. - and constructed a narrative around them.
Scott Tobias, NPR
Rotten
Helms' Griswold is a dangerous, moronic maniac, and the filmmakers' disdain for him rubs off on the audience.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
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