The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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.

Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth and Leslie Mann star in this 2015 comedy sequel/reboot of the 1983 classic. This focuses on Rusty Griswold (Helms) who is now an adult with his own family. He decides to follow in his father's footsteps when he takes his wife, Debbie (Applegate) and their 2 sons on a cross-country drive to theme park, Wally World where mishaps and such occur. This isn't that bad, I guess they tried to do their own thing while still pay tribute to the original and Helms and Applegate are good in it. Mann (The Cable Guy) plays Rusty's sis, Audrey, Hemsworth (Thor) plays her husband, Stone and Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo also make brief appearances as Clark and Ellen. Give this a try at least once.

This movie was absolutely hilarious. It wasn't a redo, it did give some nods to the originals but was its own movie on its own. Just a great movie to sit back relax and laugh. For those of you that are slamming it in reviews, you're just straight up trolling, this is one of the best comedies to come out for a while!