Christmas Vacation (1989)

Posted : 10 months, 2 weeks ago at Dec 26 3:00

"Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse." Quality Christmas movie are hard to come by. Awful Christmas films are all over the place. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Jingle All the Way, Deck the Halls, Christmas with the Kranks...the list is endless. Over the years it's become an unfortunate time-honoured tradition for studios to distribute holiday f...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 7 months ago at Mar 16 18:30

Classic family fun.

This is one of the imperative films that I watch every single christmas and it never gets old. Contrary to the bemoaning of the TV christmas film schedule that I hear from my family, I pray that this classic is shown every year. It encapsulates the mood of christmas perfectly for me.

Chevy Chase and his band of SNL men are perhaps my favourite actors. They evoke such a strong sense of nostalgia whenever I see them on the big screen in their prime. It almost makes me feel old when I think how much they've aged since these films were made. Oh well, just another reason to appreciate such a staple classic of the christmas film diet.

Rating : 7/10