Make merry as Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid and an ensemble of comedy favorites strive to gift-wrap the "perfect Christmas" for the Griswold family. The most successful of the three vacations. Year: 1989 Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid,
M**C
Best Christmas movie ever
Funniest Christmas movie of all times hands-down! Anything that ever could go wrong will go wrong! It is Hilarious start to finish! This is my third copy, and it’s very affordable worth every penny! It is a family tradition and it is epic
C**D
Great quality and a fun family movie.
Great movie and well worth buying. One of those movies one can watch several times. The whole family loves it.
T**R
Entertaining movie even after all these years.
Classic movie that was well made, and funny.
M**Y
The Movie for Every Christmas
A true Christmas classic! Creative story line with some great characters. I love the prayer scene before Christmas dinner. "I pledge allegiance.....to the flag....of the United States of America...." Still makes you laugh after all these years.
B**C
Favorite holiday movie
A classic holiday movie. This is a must see. Laughs throughout the whole thing.
W**R
Best Christmas movie ever
This is me and my mother's favorite movie we watch it every Christmas thank God I have one last opportunity to watch it with her on the beware of what was in our future she passed away 4 days after New years due to a car accident it's going to be pretty hard this year to watch the movie without her but it will always bring back good memories
Z**N
Best Christmas Movie!
Classic movie and best Christmas movie!
C**N
A perfectly hilarious family comedy with a few exceptions ...
It is a hilarious comedy. Even the kind that you could say tickled my funny bone in a great number of places during the first number of times that I see it. Especially scenes like where Clark Griswold finally loses it to the point of taking it out on his yard Christmas decorations over failing to have his house full of Christmas lights stay on after so many attempts to get them to work, and finally seeing them come on (though somehow, he fails to realize that the plug-in that they were plugged into was somehow wired into the light switch of their garage light, which his wife finally figures out at the last moment.) Another scene I find most funny is when he goes sledding down a mountain sloap full of snow ridiculously fast in a metal saucer that was lubricated with a special oil he claims his company was working on for a long time, and the way that whole setting looks, not to mention the fact that he crashes into a ballot box on a Walmart parking lot at the end of it. Plus, many of his clumsy and acting crazy scenes I find funny, though I favor scenes like the first two mentioned above. In terms of taste, it is things like this that are among what make things funny if not hilarious.Though I found a great deal of scenes funny and some even hilarious, I still give this movie four stars on a count of a few things I find inappropriate on a count of keeping good taste in humor besides all genres. First, there is some profanity and vulgarity that go beyond the boundaries of what would make it a great, hilarious family-friendly enough Christmas comedy like the Home Alone or Santa Clause movies, or Christmas with the Kranks.From how I found it overall to be, one way I would give it way more approval is if it had not been for up to several obscene words let alone there already being plenty of profane language and some crude jokes along with some crude references and several risque scenes, a couple which even has the main character being an adulterer towards his wife over a slutty female cashier he met at a mall. Plus, though you don't see any of this happen, the grotesquely positioned marking in a carpet of a cat who gets electricuted to death under a recliner by chewing on the cord of a strand of Christmas tree lights, might still cross the line of adequate refinement in humor for a good number of people. Even to the point whether you don't know whether it is right to laugh at the situation, or feel pity for it. Especially to all of us who love and get a kick out of cats. For the good of society, I would appreciate it had all of this kind of content been left out in place of whatever could have been able to be funny in taste and at the same time be clean.Even though there is nothing profane or vulgar about this, and I have no idea why this is, but I also find it strangly annoying that out of the way he talks to all other characters, the way Clark calls his son "Russ" in just about every single quote he says to him. Just like how many times he calls Eddie that in every sentence ever said to him, which he doesn't quite as much as with his son. By doing these, you can never tell if by addressing their names in just about every single sentence and in the way he does, if Clark is meaning it out of respect or contempt for them, of if the idea is that this is one way to make the whole set up loony. Also, though the sounds of her voice and her demeanor was easily humorous, the dementiated way that Aunt Bethany talked gets more annoying than funny pretty fast. It's almost like it was a mockery on the real life condition.of Alzheimer's or the worst kind of senility.If it weren't for all of these particular issues, it would be a hilarious Christmas comedy classic that would earn five stars from me. However, I bought it anyway, but for all of the reasons above, I was conflicted about if I should buy it for how much I have rented and watched it every Christmas.
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