Hop aboard this road trip of a reaction as Cameron and Isaiah sit down together and watch National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) on Amazon Prime Video for the very first time! Chevy Chase was the star of the show in this movie, if you agree and enjoyed this reaction, show some support and leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite road trip escapade from the movie “National Lampoon’s Vacation”!
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A future rusty has had 3 bad hangovers pulled his own tooth out and got a face tattoo in bancock
Clark is always a womanizer and Helen stands by him 98% of the time but Wayne Newton is Wayne newton
Aunt Edna was a comedy legend by this time her partner cid Cesar has an important call back roll in Vegas vacation and he also was a comedy legend, sid was in an alstar packed cast in its a mad, mad, mad, mad world please check it out very old very long but lol after joker constantly easily more jokes than both airplane movies
National lampoon was a satire comedy magazine put out by harvard, there are several lampoon movies up til the 2000s I don't know why they stopped but after the 80s the movies were hit and miss, I have several of the magizines from the 70s a lot of story's never made it to a movie
The dog thing hit different for me when this came out because I'd never been within 50 feet of a dog before.
13:48 Yes! I use that all the time. Extra fun when someone does something good: "Stop playing with the vaccum-cleaner!"
Great reaction Guys! First I've seen of the "younger" generation to get this movie. Yes, it's all horrible – but funny and that's the point!
Obviously, IRL, the dog situation would suck. Part of the humor of those kind of moments in a movie, however, is precisely that it's so horrible that it almost becomes surreal, and that can tap into the funny bone in a weird way. I don't think anybody watching it was thinking, "Yeah! Sweet! He killed the dog!" It's meant to be an OMG moment of disbelief that the filmmakers went there, followed by the kind of dark laughter that can be allowed to bubble up when you remember that it's just a movie and that dog probably lived a very nice, pampered life in Hollywood IRL. National Lampoon, as both a magazine and a maker of movies, was all about pushing the envelope of taste and more typically safe humor, much like a Family Guy or South Park would be today, so of course they went there.
I mean, if you're a fan of Family Guy, then that sort of dark humor shouldn't be that different from what you're used to. Yeah, sure, FG is a cartoon – just like the dog is an actor – but that doesn't change the joke. You're still laughing at dark, often F'd up subject matter if you're watching FG, SP and that sort of stuff. WAY darker than anything in this movie.
As for the cheating, yeah, that always sucks IRL and I agree with Cam that it kind of dents the ability to sympathize with Clark as a character in that moment. Worse was when his wife basically offered to de facto reward him by starting her own sexy swim-time to compete with his would-be affair partner. All that being said, it's worth mentioning that Clark did get caught, publicly embarrassed in front of the hotel residents, personally embarrassed when he had to backtrack and admit his lies to the girl (supermodel Christie Brinkley, btw) and had his son basically point out that his excuses were BS, etc. That's way more repercussions than he got for, say, kidnapping a security guard at "gun"-point, stealing money from a register, etc, etc. It just would've been better, imo, if Ellen had shut him down and shut him out for at least a little while rather than trying to prove that she was "fun" like "that girl."
Still, it's a movie, people do these things IRL (probably more now today than ever, given all the methods of connecting with people with cellphones, socials, dating sites, hook-up sites, etc, etc), and Clark is meant to be a well-meaning but flawed character who pretty much always makes poor choices that blow up in his face, Fortunately, we're all smart people who can separate fact from fiction. Don't get me wrong: Personally, I would have written those scenes differently like you guys because of the "character sympathy" hit Clark takes. But there are plenty of filmmakers back then AND today who wouldn't. I mean, watch a Farrelly Brothers movie sometime. They push the envelope in a very similar way but even farther because shocking humor has to become more and more shocking as time goes on or it loses its edge and just becomes normal humor. National Lampoon was just an early adopter of that sort of humor in movies and print.
European Vacation was the second installment in the franchise.
I think this comedy was generational to a degree… Society is very hypersensitive now, so many things offend people, when this came out, like many other movies/comedies, people knew it was wrong (ie. joking about adultery) but if you are in a committed relationship you aren't going to do it, you certainly wouldn't blame a comedy movie for doing it. I believe more than 50% of comedies I watched in my younger years will never be seen on TV again, not as it was.
I think you may be conditioned to a degree to our super sensitive society and so you may take some of these jokes a little more seriously, which is not necessarily wrong as you are tuned into what is wrong or right… at least you are watching it, and not boycotting it…. Some of the jokes in this movie and others like it weren't meant to be funny because, for example, killing animals is funny, because it's not, it was meant to be funny because the dog was annoying, but of course no one should enjoy the thought of killing a dog/cat etc… it was just a different time where people laughed at the comedy aspect, not being reality.
A bit like another classic 'Revenge of the Nerds'… probably will never see it on TV again, unless heavily edited and toned down… yet it was a top comedy of it's time. Now it might be seen like some sort of sexual harassment/exploitation/r@pe movie. I recall watching it when I was young, but I didn't dwell on the theme, just the over all story/comedy in general.
A little like when kids are young, they struggle to tell the difference between TV and reality, especially in movies, so as a parent you explain the reality… "No, don't worry, he didn't die in real life… it's just a movie, telling a story, he is just an actor and is alive making other movies." Takes them a while to grasp the concept.
We have to be really careful not to wipe out raw comedy or censor it too much. If we lose our humour, it will really become a dark place.
Don't get used to the kid actors. They're different in every Vacation movie.
Rusty was played by Anthony Michael Hall. He probably isn't in the sequels because he had a busy career in the 1980s. You could probably do a series of reactions of just his movies. I highly recommend Weird Science and Sixteen Candles.
I like this one WAY more than Christmas vacation. It's just ruder and more my style.
It's a very funny movie!
If you like Chevy Chase around this age check out a movie he did "Modern Problems" very funny stuff.
There's actually 4 movies in this series! Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Vegas Vacation.
The kids being played by different actors is a running joke throughout the franchise. Each original Vacation movie, the kids are different actors. The main adult cast are all the same actors. The kids are all played by different actors, and sometimes they're younger than they were in the previous film. Lol
Do young folks even know what station wagons even are/were?
Interesting how you were watching the alternate version with "I'm So Excited" compared to the proper version with "Little Boy Sweet".
now go watch the funnier sequels of this movie. european vacation and vegas vacation
It was hilarious watching u laugh when Aunt Edna was eating the sandwich the dog wet on
You call the technology insanely old. I call it nostalgic. I was around when that was state of the art technology
Fun fact they initially shot the movie without the ending at Wally World. Then they screened it with test audiences. The test audiences stated that it was missing something. So they went back wrote an ending and hired John Candy and filmed the new ending. And the rest is history. I didn’t find that out till years afterwards though. Great reaction 😂. Great movie. The original was the best for me but the Christmas one was pretty good too.
Did Clarke really leave the dog on purpose? As a kid, I was like "Oh no! he must feel terrible." But the adult in me understands the decision now.
Nearly two score years ago, this was broadcast on prime time CBS, and it became one of the features I recorded on one of the first half-dozen blank videocassettes I ever owned (so long ago that each cassette came in a sturdy plastic box with a snap-open lid). And it still plays!
Good job, gentlemen, on a reaction to a feature almost impossible to go wrong with. My thanks for letting me tag along – and as a practical expression of gratitude, I herewith announce a long-deferred subscription (consider it a holiday gift).
Keep on enjoying yourselves, and I'll almost certainly enjoy you too.
"Succubus". Nicely played. 😁
Always a good laugh when Cam almost pukes!
Some fun facts … as the Griswalds were leaving Chicago and they cut to the aerial shot of the car on the exit ramp, that is what was used in the opening credits of "Married … With Children."
The car salesman was comedian and future "Schitt's Creek" star and co-creator Eugene Levy. Rusty was the debut of Anthony Michael Hall before he would go on to star in "The Breakfast Club" "Sixteen Candles" among others … The girl in the sportscar was super model and then-wife of Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley.
The actress with the best line "Yeah, but daddy says I do it the best" was said by a very young Jane Krakowski, who would go on the star in "Ally McBeal," "30 Rock" and the current host of "Name That Tune."
This movie came out in the summer of 1983, just about the time my family and I got back from a 4-week trip driving from Columbus, Ohio out to Seattle, down to San Francisco, then back to Ohio. I went to see it with my mother and sister, and we cracked up seeing so many too-familiar experiences. No WallyWorld, and Aunt Edna did not die along the way (although we did stop to visit her), but we could definitely relate to a lot of what we saw.
This movie is why my Dad called Walmart "Wally World" & I'm sure soooo many other people did too