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  • 2015
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Following 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: John Hughes, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley

  • 2015
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 39 m

Vacation

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
34
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 247 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Following 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: John Hughes, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
34
15% Positive
5 Reviews
42% Mixed
14 Reviews
42% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
34
15% Positive
5 Reviews
42% Mixed
14 Reviews
42% Negative
14 Reviews

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80
Jul 30, 2015
Vacation is lazy, idiotic, and gross — and I laughed my ass off at it.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 19, 2015
Sweet, self-aware and silly, the new Vacation doesn’t destroy memories or alienate newcomers – but neither does it break the mould.
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 247 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
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23% Mixed
58 Ratings
21% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 247 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
137 Ratings
23% Mixed
58 Ratings
21% Negative
52 Ratings

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10
Xeecos
Mar 2, 2021
Some dumb jokes but over all it was really funny. I couldn't stop laughing most of the time.
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10
kpm
Jan 6, 2016
Hilarious film that is not to be taken seriously or compared to old ones. Belly laugh for most of the film. Great if you don't want to concentrate on plot and just relax.
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50
Jul 28, 2015
It’s just a middling cover of a pretty good old song, adrift in the present day.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 28, 2015
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.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
38
Jul 27, 2015
With every desperate F-bomb, every “Dad, what’s a rim job?” crudity, every crass overreach into vulgarity, Vacation feels pointless, dated and dirty.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
20
Jul 27, 2015
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.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
0
Jul 28, 2015
If any of this was surprising or cleverly timed, you'd laugh and then cringe. In Vacation you cringe first and ask questions later.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
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10
kuehnau
Sep 30, 2015
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.
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orrnella
Oct 14, 2023
6 stars for skyler gisondo
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6
eeyk
Dec 1, 2021
Good movie i like it but has some cheap **** humor inside that didn't really fit the movie. Overal 6/10
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3
qqzii
Jan 15, 2023
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.
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3
CMovies
Dec 31, 2015
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.
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Production Company BenderSpink, David Dobkin Productions, New Line Cinema
Release Date Jul 29, 2015
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
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Tagline What could go wrong?
Website https://instagram.com/vacationmovie/
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Awards

Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination

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