SummaryFollowing in his father’s footsteps and hoping for some much-needed family bonding, a grown-up Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) surprises his wife, Debbie (Christina Applegate), and their two sons with a cross-country trip back to America?s “favorite family fun park,” Walley World.
Directed By:John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Written By:Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, John Hughes
Vacation
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
34
User score
Mixed or Average
5.8
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
34
15% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
42% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
42% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
Jul 30, 2015
80
Vacation is lazy, idiotic, and gross — and I laughed my ass off at it.
Aug 19, 2015
60
Sweet, self-aware and silly, the new Vacation doesn’t destroy memories or alienate newcomers – but neither does it break the mould.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.8
47% Positive
104 Ratings
104 Ratings
28% Mixed
61 Ratings
61 Ratings
25% Negative
54 Ratings
54 Ratings
Jul 28, 2015
50
It’s just a middling cover of a pretty good old song, adrift in the present day.
Jul 28, 2015
40
After a while, Vacation starts to reek like a car when the kids have their shoes off. Really, though, that stench is a studio digging through its old titles, trying to find something fresh to remake.
Jul 27, 2015
38
With every desperate F-bomb, every “Dad, what’s a rim job?” crudity, every crass overreach into vulgarity, Vacation feels pointless, dated and dirty.
Jul 27, 2015
20
These charmless characters are meant to learn that spending time with each other isn’t so bad, yet surviving 100 minutes with them is one of the great cinematic endurance tests of our time.
Jul 28, 2015
0
If any of this was surprising or cleverly timed, you'd laugh and then cringe. In Vacation you cringe first and ask questions later.
Sep 30, 2015
10
Vacation is all the raunchy humor and laughs that comes with such a title, perhaps a little bit more "adult" then it's grandparents, Vacation if a fun, filthy, heart warming story of a family simply trying to keep it together. Reminds me a lot of my own family and the kind of dumb, stupid stuff we had to suffer through. I don't consider this a reboot, this is a sequel to a film. It makes the clearly apparent via characters and story line. Young Rusty is now a man with his own family and his own problems and he attempts to revive his family through a family vacation to the place he so fondly remembers, It may not be a National Lampoons film, but it's still great on it's own merits. All the haters are just turds with no lives and looking for something to complain about. Out of all the movies that have been shown in 2015, this one does not deserve the hate it gets.
Dec 1, 2021
6
Good movie i like it but has some cheap **** humor inside that didn't really fit the movie. Overal 6/10
Jan 15, 2023
3
Mediocre light non-committal comedy. Few good and funny moments. There is absolutely no "growing up" of characters, no changes, so it's not clear why all this was conceived at all.
Dec 31, 2015
3
If you like unfunny **** jokes and shock humor that makes your stomach churn more than actually laugh, this is the film for you. Anything good that happens in this film is ALWAYS countered by something bad, and you lose all optimism for the characters (who you don't give a **** about anyway.) This movie is atrocious, I'd rather give myself a vasectomy with a pair of safety scissors as opposed to watching this again.
Production Company:
- New Line Cinema
- RatPac-Dune Entertainment
- BenderSpink
- Big Kid Pictures
- David Dobkin Productions
Release Date:Jul 29, 2015
Duration:1 h 39 m
Rating:R
Tagline:What could go wrong?
Awards
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Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
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