National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Full Length Reaction
Added 2022-06-05 12:34:12 +0000 UTC✨This was a request from my Top Tier patron Todd - Thank you Todd! ✨
We’re all gonna have so much f***ing fun we’re gonna need plastic surgery to remove our g**damn smiles!
Well this was a wild ride! Glad I finally got to see a Chevy Chase movie with lots of hijinx and tomfoolery 😆 Definitely feelin the summer vibes now-- ready for a vacation but hoping my next road trip goes better than the Griswold's!! 🌞
Thank you so much for watching with me!
⭐ Special thanks to Producers: MattN, Todd Preble, CBonius, Tyler Gorash, Ed Dunn, Incognito, John Walters, JT, + those who wish to remain uncredited :)
Movie runtime: 01:38:18
Comments
Fair enough! Thanks for giving it a go. You're right, not everything will be a hit for everyone 👍
Jen M
2022-08-07 14:51:09 +0000 UTCSunday Morning. I've not seen this film before. I had a preconceived notion that I thought I probably wouldn't like it. But I've had it in the reserve 📂 for when I needed a comedy and the mood to give it a fair shake. 30mins in... Not sure I get it. 🤨 An hour 15mins in, pretty much the film I thought it might be. Certainly not bad, just not my thing honestly. Hey here's Mr Candy, been waiting for him to appear. I was hoping to be wrong, like I was when I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Same situation there, but that made it's way into my top movies of all time. But we can't love all can we. Interestingly there's 'some stuff in here that reminded me of another film that came many years after. It's tonally quite different, but 'may' have gotten a little inspiration from this film in some small way. •Little Miss Sunshine
Daryl
2022-08-07 12:16:47 +0000 UTCOh my gosh, that's not a great ending-- so glad they changed it!!
Jen M
2022-06-06 13:44:34 +0000 UTCPer ScreenRant dot com: "The movie's original ending was shot, but has never been seen by the public. In it, the Griswolds storm Roy Walley's house, taking him hostage and forcing him to entertain them with song and dance. That wrap-up didn't go over so well with test audiences, who found the kidnapping unsympathetic."
Todd Preble
2022-06-06 13:43:10 +0000 UTCNice! Yes I added Christmas Vacation to my Christmas movies list!! 👍
Jen M
2022-06-06 13:40:27 +0000 UTCOh that's funny-- do you know what the original ending was that audiences didn't like?
Jen M
2022-06-06 13:39:58 +0000 UTCNice! I would like to see a John Candy movie and I'm adding Christmas Vacation to my Christmas movie list! 👍
Jen M
2022-06-06 13:39:31 +0000 UTCAlways loved this movie. Partially because the park they filmed was Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. I grew up about 20 minutes from there and it was cool to see the rides we were so familiar with on the big screen. The other Vacation movies were fun too. Hope you get to them also.
Robert Avila
2022-06-06 07:18:24 +0000 UTCI just watched this with you and love this film. Of the Vacation film series, this and Christmas Vacation are the only two I thoroughly enjoyed. One of my favorite notes on this film as noted in IMDB.com: "In the Walley World scenes, Anthony Michael Hall is taller than Beverly D'Angelo; in previous scenes with her, he was the same height as her. This was because Hall grew three inches after principal photography finished. The ending was re-shot four months afterward, because the original ending failed with test audiences."
Todd Preble
2022-06-05 16:27:42 +0000 UTCNot suggesting you should watch them all but following this is NL's European Vacation (1985), NL's Christmas Vacation (1989), and Vegas Vacation (1997). I feel Vacation and Christmas are the better films, both written by Hughes. For a great John Candy movie, Uncle Buck (1989), also written and directed by Hughes.
Noby
2022-06-05 15:44:00 +0000 UTCHow good is the song "Holiday Road" by Lindsey Buckingham?
Michael Kang-Beats
2022-06-05 15:43:23 +0000 UTCYes! Good idea! 🤓👍
Jen M
2022-06-05 14:20:04 +0000 UTCWhen riding roller coasters, I always take my glasses off and put them in my pocket…🤓
Doubting Thomas
2022-06-05 14:18:12 +0000 UTC
