An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this sequel/remake but since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. First of all, I have to admit that I wasn’t a huge fan of the classic from the 80’s but it doesn’t mean that the concept doesn’t have any potential. Indeed, the montage of pictures (real or not, it doesn’t really matter) at the beginning of the movie was actually quite hilarious and displayed how it might actually work. Unfortunately, this montage was pretty much the funniest thing in this movie and it all went downhill from here. The main issue with this movie and probably with this whole franchise is that Rusty Griswold is such an annoying moron. Of course, you could argue that it was actually the whole point but it didn’t make the character funny at all, it made him actually obnoxious and pathetic. This issue was even more obvious due to the fact that the rest of his family was not at all so stupid and they were much more entertaining than him to behold. Eventually, it could have been so much funnier to have an average guy with his average family going on a road trip and facing the usual obstacles that we all have to face while we go on holiday. That’s probably what the makers really messed up here, the fact that Rusty Griswold and what happens to him on this trip were so far from reality that the whole thing wasn’t relatable anymore and, as a result, it was far less entertaining than what it could have been. Anyway, to conclude, I really didn’t care much for this flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 

5/10