Vacation (2015)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

not as good as all the hype

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I'm kind of late to review this movie since I watched it over a year ago and this is the first movie I'm reviewing here on IMDb, but I'll take a stab at it anyway. I said I watched this movie a year ago, well, I should've said that I've seen the first half hour before I turned it off shortly afterwards. I'm not very strict and pretty easy on movies most of the time, but this movie was just bad. It's a mean-spirited, unfunny movie with no heart and it's a disgrace to the original Vacation movies with Chevy Chase. I'm saying this as a guy who loved Christmas Vacation and hated this movie. Not a single moment up to the half hour mark where I turned it off made chuckle or laugh even a little bit. I would honestly give this a 0/10 if I could and this has got to be the worst movie of the year in 2015 and probably the worst movie I've ever had the displeasure to watch. Follow my advice, you'll thank me later and be grateful that you didn't see this piece of s*** movie.

It's hard to separate this film from it's predecessors. It feels like Hollywood Execs we're just trying to cash in on some nostalgia. We're talking about trying to capture the essence of classic comedy films. It sucks because I truly do like all the actors involved in this film, but still... However it did have some redeeming factors and good jokes in an attempt to do its own thing, but not really. It's time to stop trying to redo classic comedy films.

There were some good laughs, and although at points it was a little ridiculous, that ridiculousness managed to somewhat lend itself to the laughs.Another nice aspect of this movie is that, it kind of tried to steer away to some extent, from the predictability of these type of movies. Sure, a large part of it was very predictable, but, it tried with others, and I appreciated that.Overall, Vacation was pretty much what I always expected it to be, and it met those expectations quite well. Usually these road trip type comedy flicks, filled with a bunch of unnecessary spectacle end up feeling way too long, even with their usual 1 hr 30 min running time, but this film filled up that time with some palatable content for the most part. 5.7/10.P.S. Chris Hemsworth continues to deliver terrible, terrible American accents, and I have a feeling this film was just a disposable/replaceable playground to further practice his accent without consequence.

Rusty (Ed Helms) is grown and an airline pilot for a small airway. When the neighbors are over for dinner, he sees an enormous amount of father-son bonding, that he become envious and realizes his family is in a rut. He decides a vacation to Wally World (and not Paris) is what the family needs and announces to the audience "The new vacation will stand on its own."His family is a bit dysfunctional. We discover his wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) was known as "Debbie do anything" in college. As a side note, I don't believe there is a Memphis State University, but the University of Memphis is a dry campus. Kevin (Steele Stebbins) the younger son swears excessively, wrestles, and likes to bully his older brother James. James (Skyler Gisondo) who "doesn't have a vag.., but it would be okay if he did", keeps a wish diary.The film was funny. The humor was cruder, more sexual, and there was a lot of F-bombs, 58 to be exact. The film also allowed itself to draw some similarities to the original vacation, such as the girl in the car, but didn't over do it. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo appeared near the end which was a bit anti-climatic. The best humor came when they did a misdirection from the formula. Perhaps the biggest laugh was provided by the family car.Guide: Plenty of swearing, sex talk, brief nudity.