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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon’s Vacation
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Beverly D’Angelo
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- The opening-scene performer wins over the Watanabes and the exterminator.
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
Underused Ellen; recast children aging backwards
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- Beverly D’Angelo is an excellent straight woman but underused; an independent shopping/flirtation scene would give her more agency, as Vegas Vacation later does.
- The children’s backwards aging and recasting are questioned.
What’s Aged the Best?
Opening credits;1980 s looseness; good-talk line; Brinkley; D’Angelo; Krakowski; travel details; Dinky; marijuana; marital antics; Chase physical comedy; I’m So Excited
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- The opening postcards with Lindsey Buckingham’s Holiday Road immediately create a happy mood.
- The early 1980 s comedy-production atmosphere is celebrated as loose, fast, and willing to move past strange incidents without overthinking.
- Good talk, son remains a reusable parent–child line.
- Brinkley’s 1983 appeal is celebrated in the lineage of Cheryl Tiegs and Farrah Fawcett.
- Beverly D’Angelo is nominated for what aged best.
- Young Jane Krakowski is nominated.
- Brief exchanges such as the St. Louis arch joke are nominated.
- Period travel details such as Kamp Komfort and the station wagon are enjoyed, with minivans seen as the wagon’s later replacement.
- Dinky is praised as excellent dog casting.
- “Roll them up” and the vibrating bed are also nominated.
- The daughter’s marijuana-growing operation and attempt to hand Edna her bag when police arrive are enjoyed.
- The marital sexual antics remain funny, including increased desire on vacation, the panties on Clark’s finger, and his persistence despite the supposed wolf.
- Clark drying dirty dishes and returning them to the cabinet is praised as uniquely funny Chase business.
- Accidentally throwing the license plate while searching for the fuel cap is another admired Chase gesture.
- “It’s living history, Ellen” is considered uniquely funny in Chase’s delivery.
- Walking through the desert with jeans on his head is another distinctly funny Chase image.
- I’m So Excited is praised for spanning Vacation, Beverly Hills Cop, Miami Vice, an NBA commercial, and Saved by the Bell within several years.
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