Thursday, August 20, 2015

Film Review - Vacation (2015)

Vacation is a remake/continuation of the original film series which starred Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo as the Griswolds but this time Ed Helms and Christina Applegate take over the role as they drive their young sons to Walley World in the hope of reconnecting as a family.

Going into this film I feared the genuine worst as I have a real soft spot for the original 3 Vacation films from 1983, 1985 and 1989 (the Christmas one in particular I like to think of as my ideal Christmas film) and the previews for this new film looked really nasty and off point from what the series should be.

And you know that feeling you get when your worst fears are realised in the cinema well that happened here boys and girls as this is quite frankly my worst film of the year so far for two fundamental reasons:

- Firstly it's not funny at all and watching the film I was reminded why I have turned off American Comedy in a big way in the last 10 years or so and it's because of the endless jokes about innuendo or body parts, the nasty undertone to all of the humour (anytime, anytime the film goes for a nice and tender moment a nasty joke comes right around the corner and undoes it) as well as the constant scenes of actors standing around and improvising for 5 minutes I mean for fucks sake I have just grown tired of all of this but thankfully I wasn't sitting there like in Trainwreck wanting an editing machine to cut the damn thing down to less than 2 hours.

- And secondly there's no heart to the film, when you look back on the original 3 Vacation films written by the late John Hughes yes Clark W Griswold was a slightly eccentric Dad but he always showed a love for his wife and children that made Ellen go along for the ride even when she voiced her disagreement whereas here Rusty and Deb are just at each others throats the entire time and their marriage is only there for a few innuendo gags not to mention their snot nose spoilt little shit of a young son that needs a severe crack up the ass.

Look I hated this movie, hated hated hated hated hated this movie, Hated it and frankly not one person should go and see this and then maybe just maybe these acursed remakes will wither die like the poisonous vines they are and also its movies like this that just make me want En Sabah Nur and his 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse to just burn the whole fucking world down and hopefully build a better one, .5 out of 5.

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