i wonder how it would feel for him if he weren't an idiot--

Fan theory. They just kept losing Rusty and taking home a different kid.

@@gotmybootyout5793 and they name their new kid rusty every time

@@gotmybootyout5793 That would explain why it seemed like Audrey started getting older than rusty, where in the original they were similar ages

I guess even Clark (and the writers) was aware of that, because on Vegas Vacation one of his lines was “You guys are growing up so fast, I hardly recognize you anymore!”

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What if she was purple?

YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!

🎵 Cristina Applegate, you gotta put me on, And guess whose piece of the cake is Jack gone? 🎶

@@gSlover4reel She broke her wishbone and wished for a sign, I told her whispers in my heart were fine...

I like the Hangover, I thought it was a pretty alright, but I hate how it pretty much defined comedy film in the 2010s. There were so many comedies that clearly tried (and usually failed) to emulate it, including it's own sequels. Everything was sacrificed for raunchy humour that you might find in a Family Guy gag. Hangover, Due Date, Vacation, Dirty Grandpa, Hall Pass, maybe even Hot Tub Time Machine even though I really liked that one, there were so many.

Right down to huge swaths of the script just being the words "Ed Helms makes stupid faces and screams".

The raunchy humor thing started as early as Something About Mary.

@@knowthycell Kingpin was awesome too

Honestly only liked Chevy chase in community so I like this more than the original National lampoons vacation

he's only a regional pilot. the joke is that he feels inferior to national pilots

I feel like people are focusing on the wrong things here, when the core problem with the movie can be explained by the ending. So, in the original Vacation movie, Clark says that he doesn't want to just get a flight to wherever they need to go because he loves his family, and the point of the vacation is to spend time with them. So, how does this movie end? Rusty decides that vacationing with his family is stupid, and he books a flight to Paris with his wife, then he leaves the kids at home while he and his wife go on a vacation by themselves. No one gets a real victory, really. I think that's a big problem with modern comedies. Life sucks, people suck, jobs suck, families suck, etc. But, that's the real world, in movies we kind of want to see happy endings and characters celebrating meaningful victories. That's what made the original movie timeless, at the end after being crapped on and losing so many battles, they finally get a victory and get to spend some time having fun in Wally World. You don't get that in the reboot.

@@mackenziek8383 You just made Glenn Quagmire's constant presence at home in Quahog, despite being a pilot, make a lot more sense.

@@UnprofessionalProfessor That explanation makes more sense. I just assumed he mostly retired and he just occasionally flies a plane (like, one or two times a week) for fun and a little extra cash.

@@UnprofessionalProfessor Nope, because one episode has Brian sniff him out and correctly deduce that he'd just come back from a flight to the Philippines, where he dined on lumpia and made love to two Filipino women. And a man.

Exactly! Clark had a lot of flaws, mostly because he was an idealist, which in itself isn't a bad thing. He tried hard to provide for his family the kind of life that we see in cheesy feel-good films and in advertising (the myth of the American Dream), kinda like a Don Quixote. A lot of the bad things that happen stem from his good intentions. Similarly, the wife is kind of a Sancho character: she tags along out of solidarity, but is also the voice of caution and safety (to an extent). No character is one-sided in the original movies. Hughes was supremely talented at writing multi-faceted characters that were sympathetic and flawed at the same time (with the only exception being maybe Home Alone, where Kevin is too young to be really "flawed"). The reboot is the polar opposite.

Some people and some Hollywood comedies tend to forget that some of the greatest jokes/comedy is derived from truth or being able to be true/relatable.

that and the tired trope to make kids as obnoxious as possible.. the eye-rolling/gum-snapping teen daughter with her nose in her phone and the foul-mouthed @$$h0le kid brother have been done a million times in the last 20 years, maybe come up with something new for a change..

@@girliboi exaaaaaactly. Studios gotta stop with being stuck on stereotypical tropes tbh, but who knows when theyll ever let go of being “safe” for money.

Just bad writers, part of unfunny committees, writing uninspired movies with bad actors for dumb people.

SAME

Thought my phone was on its way out lol

Bruh same with my laptop

literally just saw it lol

oh thank fuck i thought my monitor was dying again lmao

Same thing Bryan Cranston said so you know it’s true

It didn’t need to be rusty if they just made the movie original it could have been good but they failed by making it a sequel to Vacation

My least favorite is Christmas vacation,the original is clearly the best,European and Vegas are very entertaining in my opinion.The new Vacation one was definitely raunchier and I enjoyed it.Christmas Vacation 2 is a total turdburger and should not be mentioned as it is just awful.

@@Art_V101 Christmas Vacation was awesome!!

I like it but compared to the other ones it's my least favorite,the original is one of my all time favorite movies,Vegas never gets super high praise but I love it.Also love European and the new Vacation.I dont dislike Christmas though!

every profession has their failures.

And it would have brought full circle the fact that Ricky’s bully on *Silver Spoons* was played by John P Navin Jr, Eddie’s son in the original film.

One of favorite deliveries from Bateman was on Dodgeball....you know, I talked to him backstage.............haha, that was all ...the little things

That would have gotten me into the theater. Unlike Ed Helms who is a hard pass.

I like Ed helms actually, but Jason Bateman legit would of been perfect for this

As soon as he said Jason Bateman I was like, dang... That's the Rusty I want to see. I'm sad that movie doesn't exist now.

It does sometimes. Depending on what’s said.

Frasier did that a lot. Obviously it depends what is being said.

LOUD NOISES!

lol. it was funny when you shouted "thank you".

@@quangamershyguyyz7166 Delivery is key.

National Lampoons: Into The Rusty-Verse

@@oceanlemonyt Old Navy commercials from 2014

One is in jail for sexual assault of a minor and the rest are dead or addicted to drugs

@@tomothybahamothy Idk about the jail or drugs, but literally every single Rusty actor is alive right now. Stop spreading misinformation

If we had choice between the 4 Rusty actors to reprise the role and no way included Ed Helms, the top one that list to reprise the role would've been Anthony Micheal Hall, if he wasn't available then Ethan Embrey, if he wasn't available, then Johnny Galeki. The hell were they thinking casting a new Rusty in Ed Helms. That made no sense whatsoever.

Anthony Michael Hall would have been a good choice. Considering that Dana Barron returned to play Audrey In Christmas Vacation 2, 20 years after the fact, getting Hall back should have been no problem. Even the Goldbergs got that right.

Plus he was well known because of Big Bang so even if you didn’t realize it was him on Christmas vacation, people would have watched it and said oh that’s Leonard from Big Bang

I like Galecki but he can not carry a movie.

I agree with Joe (the reviewer) saying that Jason Bateman would’ve been a great Rusty, since Bateman makes the perfect straight man.

I think he was older than 12.

he was like 12 or 13 in Christmas vacation. And in vacation he was around 14 or so. Then sometimes the sister is younger and other times older lol

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U be like, trying so hard for attention and not talk so good, you caveman?

It's a multiverse

That's 21st century comedy in a nutshell, IMO: detached, cynical and pretentious. It's not about making people laugh, it's about proving how clever you are, and just like in real life, it's agonizingly charmless.

@@gabe_s_videos that, or the Will Ferrell/Adam Sandler/Seth Rogen schlock that's the same thing over and over

@@BeeHatGuy The interesting thing about those two actors in particular is that they're kind of like Chevy Chase, in that they're really funny when they commit to a role. When they're allowed to just "go off" or write their own movies, if not get their buddies to do so, they fail because those aren't their strengths. And you just FEEL the ego in those movies. I'll still take Will Ferrell's cynical detachment over Adam Sandler's sexism and bullying any day.

@@BeeHatGuy why would you include Seth rogen in the same paragraph as 2 comedians though?

@@penske_material probably because he’s a comedian.

Jeez you're everywhere

That's actually not a bad idea

Was he on the Daily Show at the same time as Stephen Colbert? Maybe Satan had a two for one deal the day he was there purchasing people's souls.

IMO, Ed Helms is fine in supporting roles, but he is not leading man material.

That, and it's just a really funny Christmas movie.

Definitely. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a live cat in a box, or rode a sled down a hill at light speed, leaving a trail of fire.

Yes! It was much funnier to me once I bought my first house (complete with attic door with built-in stairs) and my wife and I tried having family Christmases. Tried to cut down my own tree and everything.

It's the least funny of the first three imo

I think it's also because it's the least cynical of the three. It's the one where you really get to see how much Clark cares about his family - in the others, he's more of a jerk and a creep.

they should play brothers

Woulda been the better pick

Well, they did play in _We're the Millers_ together.

Jason Sudeikis would've been way better casting for Rusty Griswold than Ed Helms. First huge misstep for this reboot.

Actually I thought We're the Millers was a better road trip movie than this Vacation reboot.

And it's not really funny when not animated--it just looks horrific.

Family Guy doesn't mind.

Eh, it's an obvious joke to make when trying to parody elements of the original movie. It's just as possible that it was made without having knowledge of the Family Guy joke.

@Joshua Hammond It's not funny.

I would like this comment but it’s on 69 so

That's exactly how I expected this to be, instead it's the All About Steve of movies.

That sounds a lot better.

The suicidal white water rafting guy was also really funny.

@@michaelpaoneproductions You mean legendary actor Charlie Day?

@@Leon-zu1wp From It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

@@michaelpaoneproductions hahaha i forgot about that

Writers who are shallow and mean are incapable of writing characters who are not.

@@AlexReynard Ok, let's not make this personal. It's just a movie. It's really not fair to judge the creators like that.

@@gabe_s_videos I'm a writer. I judge other writers because I know what I'd never let myself put into a story. I don't always think the work reflects the creator, but sometimes, with humor this ugly and mean-spirited, I feel comfortable in saying that whoever was responsible never matured past early childhood.

@@AlexReynard I'm an artist and I don't publicly badmouth other artists. Why would I do that to a peer? I wouldn't want them to do that to me. That's cruel.

@@gabe_s_videos When I see modern writers disrespecting beloved characters to this extent, IMO, that's far crueler than me calling it out.

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And that’s a funny film.

I was thinking the exact same thing!!!

Definitely

I loved RV! TBS always aired it and I fell in love

"On A Family Vacation, No One Can Hear You Scream." That tagline still gets me.

God bless the 80s. When people understood that family means kids and kids mean reproduction.

The 80s, man. When America was still just a little unbalanced on the violence vs nudity moral panic scale

@@deabreu.tattoo thank god we came to our senses and started banning anything that might upset some random person

What

Back to the cubes with you.

Oh God! XD

You can have high brow potty humor...they just go for outlandish cumamd fart jokes. Some pothead comdies like that people like....Scary Movie 2 is some people's favorite in the series...I thought there was too many fluid jokes. And I'm not a prude...I don't do it much in public, but I have a gross TMI perverted sense of humor. I just think that's what's special on timing and to what level. If everything is constantly as gross as it can be you get desensitized or even turned off. Gets boring and not original. Writing has become to suck. People are more stupid too. Idocaracy at its best, Jersey Shore covered with syringes half full on Brondo... Haha. I always mess up the name. It's got what plant want...electrolytes.

Also, shock humor full of blood and gore, like Family Guy

Absolutely. It's those Hollywood types. They'd buy water from a faucet.

@@majorfanboy2005 It's moreso the absolute saturation of it. Sure, you have a fair amount of good comedies, but you also have *so many* bad ones. A landscape of bad dirty humor, like the modern one we have, is way more grating than a landscape of bad mixed humor.

@@nyahnyahson523 Fair amount, My ass. there's an even amount of good and bad.

The original has a joke about the Griswolds cousin kissing her father Pretty gross and not even funny Literally just a shock humor line and it only made me hate Cousin Eddie

@@carybeweary7209 The edited for TV version that aired on CBS in 1985 replaced it with her science teacher. The pimp whom the Griswolds ask directions also gets an alternate line instead of “fuck your mama.“ instead, he says, “who do I look like, Christopher Columbo?”

Pls explain Idk what you’re referring too

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Amen to that

Why'd you sit in the front fucking row? I think you can blame yourself for the shit experience. Sure the movies Terrible. But I think your bad seats added to the situation

What about Captain Underpants?

@@tb3411 Captain Underpants is a Kevin Hart movie.

I agree. Ed Helms is fine in supporting roles, but he is not leading man material.

@@tb3411 yeah, he’s bearable in Captain underpants

I think the scene where he is plugging the holes in the dam is classic Clark Griswold

The scene with Blackjack was good, primarily because Wallace Shawn went to high school with Chevy Chase. Also the Cheapo Casino was pretty funny.

That and the scene where Clark sees Christie Brinkley now has a kid, revealing time has moved on. A rare bit of pathos in an otherwise mediocre movie.

Knowing that's exactly what happened with I, Robot, I hate that there's a good chance you're absolutely right.

Yeah you're right! Unfortunately there's a million "road trip comedy" scripts out there, and very few of them are good, so probably Hollywood thought "let's call this part of the Griswold saga in order to cash on nostalgia since we haev nothing else to offer." But seriously, in the screenwriting community, it seems like every second person who tries to get a foot in the industry is obsessed with writing spec scripts for The Office or road trip comedies. It's ridiculous how much of this shit clogs screenwriting message boards and I can only imagine how much worse it must be for talent agents, producers and contest judges to have to wade through it, only to be accused of nepotism when they turn it down.

AKA, how almost all of the DIE HARD sequels were developed

@@J.S.3259 o.O That... makes... sense...

Cause money and assets

Star Trek 2009 would be a better counterpoint

Chris Hemsworth also appeared in the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

@@MCFPapa Oof. That film might already qualify for forgotten failures...

Independence Day 2

@@JPH1138 it's seriously the worst quality film I've ever seen, made by someone who has shown greatness (Chasing Amy). Besides that, it may even be worse than his nazi sausage movie

That's exactly why Seinfeld isn't funny

@@jakeivey2011 You misspelled *F(r)iends.*

Someone should tell James Franco and the writers of Saturday Night Live. Good humor is subtle, not loudly cursing (Franco) or yelling while making wide-eyed silly faces (SNL).

That's because you can't tell if they are foreign or not at first. They just make a face or sound as if they can't hear. But then they finally talk, and you realize that they can hear just fine, they just don't speak English.

That's a really good way to put it.

Haha me to. It's pretty much the only way I would of watched it. Truly a missed opportunity sadly.

Agree. Vegas is my favorite one

Vegas a good sequel in my opinion. I was shocked to learn that it wasn’t even written by John Hughes, the writers of it were definitely big Vacation fans who kept it in sprit with the original 3 movies

Vegas is the best one tbh

Vegas is my fav

Vegas is alright. It has a few great lines like "I'm your dam tour guide and you can take all the dam photos you want!"

@L G made me think of the movie RV with Robin Williams.

Not a terrible idea

I'd watch it. Sounds fun

That title made me think of a story where the Griswolds are on the run from the police after getting framed for a crime they didn’t commit, which still sounds better than this movie.

This is why amateurs like you don't write movies. You're more of a flipping burgers cleaning toilets kinda person.

That's my third favorite after Christmas and the original

Yeah, but he has a gambling addiction that costs them everything until they're saved by a deus ex machina

“Show dont tell”

The past 15 years have been an utter joke for movies and the last twenty has been even worse for mainstream music.

It seems like Hollywood is folding in on itself, simply remaking the mediocre/terrible remakes from here on out

Honestly Stege, the 2010s as a decade for movies really leaned too hard into the remake territory and rarely did that end well

I’d say the biggest thing that marked the 2010s was the fall of rock music in favor of music that had no creativity and would be forgotten in 5 years.

Eh, he was better in Captain Underpants.

Helms is the same character in every movie. He’s the worst

Will Ferrell is this way

@@Zeldachief128I agree. I can only take Helms and Ferrell in small doses (with the exceptions of Elf, Kicking and Screaming, Megamind, and The Lego Movies).

@@roberttreacy8271 Kicking and Screaming is the only Will Ferrell movie I've ever watched in full and remember watching it time and time again with my dad and it would kill us laughing, then again I was in my early teens the last time I watched it, so not sure how funny I'd find it today lol.

It's the only scene in the movie that I could say was funny. And even there, I still wasn't sure if I really did think it was funny, or if I was just struggling to find something I might have enjoyed about the movie.

Granted that's mostly because it's Charlie Days, he's always funny, he's that crackhead friend we all have

He was the only funny part of the movie.

He is always a sunny part of the films he is in

That is the only truly memorable scene from the film. It is the perfect blend of insane and ridiculous physical comedy (the stuff you'd see in a cartoon).

Marketing... The dead zone was already finished.

@@das81 Don't over-analyze sarcasm.

@@das81 To be fair, that show was pretty good. Though, the movie with Christopher Walken is far better. Mainly because it was directed by David Cronenberg.

I like the gag that it’s always been different actors and there being no continuity with their looks, age, etc.

Yes that’s what I have always said. I also would have loved to see Dana Barron return as Audrey( and yes I know she does in Christmas vacation 2, but does anyone really care for that film?) Hell even the Goldbergs got that right.

where can i get some dam bait?

I love it too. Was my favourite as a kid. Where’s the damn dam tour?

@@MrJohnlennon007 its funny you say that. I put this movie on as a "dad time movie" while my kid played with his toys, and it ended up being my five year old favorite movie.

@@MrJohnlennon007 it was mine for a while too

It's the third best Vacation movie after Christmas and the original!

*Caddyshack* wasn't exactly a blockbuster back in 1980

@@dnasty312 It made $60 million on a $4.8 million budget, though...

@@lelopez86 with Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray providing the comedy.

I think the point he's making is that Harold didn't really become a household name until after this came out. Seems like he was still "that guy from that movie" in 1983. Hell...I'd argue a lotta people don't even know John Hughes wrote "Vacation" b/c they only know him as the guy who did 80s teen movies.

@@dnasty312 CADDYSHACK was an enormous success, and was WB’s most profitable film in 1980

It is, but that in itself feels like an issue. It feels like they wanted to just throw whatever random weird problem the car had just so one joke would manage to guarantee to get a laugh out of someone. And it worked! They did get *one*. But you shouldn't have to do that! It's a very cheap way to write humor. This is why Family Guy has so many cutaways in its show and why they feel like they were made by throwing darts at a board with randomly chosen words on it.

That's a good story and would have been funny if this was in the movie instead!

It's ironic how you said it is a horror. Horror and comedy have much of the same reasons why they work. Just as you described things happen one at a time with a realization at the end.

@@Leon-zu1wp Sometimes, one man's suffering is another man's joy. Comedy, horror, context.

Somehow, the cruel misfortunes of life managed to deliver a joke onto you better than the conscious effort of Hollywood writers.

He just can't carry movies by himself. He's best as comic relief, but not the lead.

You mean he plays the same character in every film

It's a fucking tragedy he's never played Herman Munster.

He`s grating and kind of unlikeable in the Office but I liked him in the"Hangover 1 and 2....

He is so funny as a crime lord in We're the Millers.

Vegas Vacation is criminally underrated

@@TheWinstonSlip Vegas Vacation is so funny. It's way better than European Vacation.

@@collectibleasmr indeed.

I still quote Vegas Vacation probably even more than NLV or CV.

They don’t care as long as they get paid.

Uh, Chase and D'Angelo are in this movie...

@@aranbuzzas8000- Uh, I didn't say they weren't in the movie. I said they weren't used as well as they could have been.

One of the best jokes in the movie no doubt😂

That was the only thing I liked (from what was shown about the movie). Just the idea of an unaware entity acting so human.

I've noticed that too. The Goldbergs is blatant for screaming dialogue. Once can be funny, but not when they do it for every line.

Yet in horror movies, they practically whisper it

I've noticed it, too. It seems like every "funny" commercial is full of people yelling, people dancing like stupid assholes, or both.

Modern commercials... I've always hated commercials but the stuff airing nowadays makes the commercials from the 90s look oscar worthy.

I went with my Grandparents and this movie sucks bla bla bla Bro get a girlfriend and a life, u r the bummer😬

@@darolhitman3154 I could say the same to you. You made a pointless comment.

@@darolhitman3154 So.. a girlfriend is more important to you than your grandparents? Enjoy those one or two times you've been laid "Hitman"

@@darolhitman3154 you seem like the type of person who thought this movie was hilarious.

What? Granny didn’t like the 10 different jokes about paedephilia?! What’s wrong with her!

He's in a great movie called Suicide Kings too I recommend it if you like mob movies Although it's a very different kind of mob movie

Coming 2 America comes to mind

Ghostbusters 2016

They abysmally fail to understand that movies are products of their time; you can't just modernize it, throw in cruder jokes, and then act surprised when people don't like it. Off the top of my head, what I liked a lot about the original films were: the references to the technology back then (vintage by today's standards), and how the movie looked and felt wholesome, in contrast to the dirty and goofball jokes. That's because back then, a lot of movies that came out had that same look but without the humor. Also, the movie's humor, I felt, was more subtle, and it was obviously structured way better, because Hughes was a fantastic screenwriter and you can tell that the plot follows that of the first Don Quixote novel. For an anti-family family comedy, a heck of a lot of depth was put into it. But the reboot? It's just a typical modern-day trash comedy that's trying to piggy-back onto an old IP with the hope of racking up enough nostalgia points to recoup its budget and pay for the execs' new swimming pools.

Rambo before the newest was actually good though. Rocky VI was good in theaters with my friends. Sometimes it works but it has to know what it's doing. Guarantee the producer and director are the biggest issues with most of these movies not being true to the original or the series and instead are being made like "this part was funny do that again"

@@ericrhodes5174 I didn't see it yet but I don't listen to reviews

Yup and that is not a good thing.

The old guy at the end winning the money is the best scene

I agree. I feel like there is enough in common with the previous Vacation films in terms of humor and heart that it works well in the film series, and I find it just as enjoyable to put on as the previous films in the series. While it may not be as iconic as the original or Christmas Vacation, I don't really understand why it gets the hate it gets.

I loved the movie

Vegas vacation felt too much like a Disney film. It was way too family friendly compared to the first 3 and it felt like Clark barely had any screen time

I only liked Vegas Vacation at the time because I was obsessed with the subject of gambling (not the same as an addiction, mind you).

Will Ferrell is the reason. This goes all the way back to Elf.

@@MyOldTapes aye don't talk shit about elf

@@cyruskuria5165 Yo Elf fucking sucks dude I don't care who knows it call the cops idc

Also, it's because everyone whispers in TV shows.

Disagree.kevin hart does his best eddie murphy most times

Very similar vibes and both very funny.

@Captain Heh Totally agree. I saw them both and liked them both. I think my brain merged them into one movie over the years.

@Spliff Notes some overlapping cast and probably some overlapping people behind the scenes too...same basic time period of release. I'm with you, I love them both. Would love to see more from either family.

I could make a storyline for a Wacky Races movie, where the race goes from New York to Las Vegas, the characters Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect, and the Ant Hill Mob have character development, while Dick Dastardly and Muttley, with the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers, attempt to sabotage the race and kill Penelope respectively, all while we get to interact with the other racers in a slapstick comedy highway race to the finish... and even if you tell me the stakes are high, you will also tell me I was paying respect to the concept than the 2017 reboot!

That scene and the poor cow? Yecch! 🤢

The Disney Channel was just following Nickelodeon's lead, though. Take another look at All That or Kenan and Kel - everybody's cranked up to 11 all the time on those shows. It's downright assaulting.

@@jbwarner8626make sense

The Detour is absolutely brilliant.

Also, episodic TV show vs movie. You get to do far more in mutli-episode arcs than you can in a 90 minute contained story.

I will also add that I found 'The Detour' to be fantastic

Sounds like I need to check this out.

@@KJ-tz7vc Its on Hulu