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Solid family fare with plenty of yocks.

-Variety StaffFull Review

The new film does little more than reintroduce these familiar characters (with new actors playing the children, who would otherwise be college age by now) and let them get on one another's nerves in earnest.

-Janet MaslinFull Review

One of the great unanswered questions in Hollywood is how Chevy Chase still gets work.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

Sequence after sequence seems to contain all the necessary material, to be well on the way toward a payoff, and then it somehow doesn't work.

-Roger EbertFull Review

Christmas Vacation may not be a fancy package, but it is a diverting stocking stuffer.

-Rita KempleyFull Review

[A] fairly perfect blend... of cartoon violence and mayhem and the pleasant lightness of a Christmas movie.

-Tim BraytonFull Review

John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this silly, warm little guilty pleasure that nails most of the trials and tribulations of spending the holidays with family.

-Jeffrey M. AndersonFull Review

With enough sight gags to please slapstick fans and enough good-natured Christmas cheer to qualify as a good holiday film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation should keep most viewers occupied and provide 97 minutes of goofy entertainment.

-Full Review

Easily the funniest of the four Vacation movies. Just try keeping a straight face when the uncouth Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) is on screen.

-Chuck O'Leary

hilarious, a classic

-Rich Cline

The best of the four "Vacation" movies.

-Mark Robison

The ultimate family holiday film, playing on both the heart strings and the horror to capture a genuine Christmas spirit.

-Ryan CracknellFull Review

...a roller-coaster ride of hilarity, poignancy, vulgarity, and just plain dumbness.

-John J. PuccioFull Review

the last funny installment of the series

-Christopher NullFull Review

Haven't watched it in awhile, but I remember it well and I remember enjoying it. One of the better Vacation movies (Vegas Vacation is still the best, though).

-Shawn Bowers

Amusing Chase vehicle on its way to being a Xmas perennial.

-Ken Hanke

There never, ever should've been more than one of these movies.

-Luke Y. Thompson

The human frailty at the center of the story makes the jokes all the funnier. Holiday films are rarely as priceless.

-Chuck Rudolph

As always the visual gags are more prevalent then the verbal ones, and are lit up in neon so you can't miss them.

-Ali BarclayFull Review

Many of those episodic moments, particularly in the film's first half, are hilarious. But as picture goes along there are far too many dry spells.

-Chris HicksFull Review

Christmas Vacation never quite reaches the levels of suburban-angst rage that other Vacation movies do, but it does have its moments.

-MaryAnn JohansonFull Review

It may be forgotten when it comes to Top 50 lists of comedys, but it's consistently funny, a mini-classic of it's kind and a re-watcher when it comes to Christmas.

-OzFull Review


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