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| Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 |
Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive optimism
of a suburban dad driving reluctant yet resilient son Anthony Michael Hall and moody wannabe stoner daughter Dana Barron as the original Rusty and Audrey... and co-starring mostly perfect wife in Beverly D'Angelo: all stuck on a cross-country trip...
Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a
curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous
stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above
and within) the Grand Canyon while Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash
step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as
Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly...
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| Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron in VACATION with Chevy Chase |
Although
hilarious through and through, there's a dark side to this VACATION. As
bad luck piles on, Clark gets more and more annoyed at his family, who
simply refuse to enjoy the trip: they would have rather gone to Hawaii
anyhow...
But no matter what family or circumstantial bulwarks get in the way, Clark's blind determination never refrains, another reason
Chevy Chase should be given more credit as an actor and not just a funny
guy...
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| Christie Brinkley in VACATION |
Supermodel Christy Brinkley, as a roaming babe in a Ferrari convertible, provides memorable cameos, and necessary distraction for Clark's sanity from his wife's grouchy nagging and a nightmarish and doomed old aunt passenger: all leading to a wonderfully bizarre finale
at their destination, Wally World...
And not to forget the glorious
Lindsay Buckingham theme song "Holiday Road," second only to Kenny
Loggin's CADDYSHACK track for
the all time best comedy classic themes summing up the entire
celebration of the classy eighties but, being a NATIONAL LAMPOON
production and directed by ANIMAL HOUSE co-writer Harold Ramis, not without residual from the R-Rated Exploitation 1970's,
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Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron in VACATION with Beverly D'Angelo
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| Post Cards in VACATION |
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| Post Cards in VACATION |
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| Post Cards in VACATION |
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| Christie Brinkley in VACATION |
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| Dana Barron in VACATION |
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Dana Barron in VACATION with Thin Lizzy Chinatown album
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| Chevy Chase in VACATION |
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Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron in VACATION listen to The Ramones
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| Beverly D'Angelo in VACATION |
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Dana Barron in VACATION with Nathan Cook and Chevy Chase
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| Chevy Chase and Anthony Michael Hall in VACATION |
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| Christie Brinkley in VACATION |
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| Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn in VACATION |
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| Chevy Chase and John Candy in VACATION |
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Dana Barron in VACATION with Beverly D'Angelo
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| Chevy Chase and Anthony Michael Hall in VACATION |
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Dana Barron in VACATION with Anthony Michael Hall
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| Dana Barron in VACATION |
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