The amusement park is Six Flags Magic Mountain. The white wooden roller coaster is the Colossus. I was a ride operator on the Colossus form '79-'81. This was filmed after I left, but my friends were the ride operators for "Vacation".
In the 80s almost every teenage boy had a poster of Christy Brinkley (Ferrari girl) on their bedroom wall. They also had Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek posters on their walls.
A lot of people prefer Christmas Vacation, but this one will always be my favourite. Couldn't even guess how many times I've seen it since I was a kid. Another awesome reaction, you rock Addie. 👍✌❤
That girl in the red sports car is Christie Brinkley, one of the top models in the US at the time, and probably elsewhere, as well. The whole audience would have recognized her back in the day, because her face was everywhere.
Fun fact: In the original version of the movie, when it shows the Griswolds crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Missouri and Ellen says "I don't think this is the right exit," Clark then says "What does it matter as long as we get across the river?"... in the very next scene when they're lost in the bad neighborhood there was a caption at the bottom of the screen that said "East St. Louis". This made no sense because East St. Louis is in Illinois. They later edited it out.
I cant believe that the kids were actually 15 and 17 when this movie came out. Anthony Michael Hall looks about 13, but he was 15, and the actress who played his sister looks 12. She's actually 17.
A tiny fact about this movie during the scene where Clark gets pulled over by the cop and while they are both talking about the dog if you notice neither of them can keep a straight face
This movie is older than I am and I JUST noticed that when he leaves Wally world to go to the sporting goods store, the car he cuts off is the same model, but in the blue colour he said he ordered at the beginning of the movie.
A few months ago, when I drove to Orlando, and I saw the sign "Walt Disney World -- Next Two Exits," I immediately thought of Clark going "Walley World -- Next Three Exits". I love this movie.
Those were FUN movies for their day. I was a teenager when these came out and me and my friends laughed our butts off and talked and talked about these movies for years.
"Yeah but Daddy said I'm the best at it" That reaction to that line is the best reaction I've ever seen you give Addie! It made me laugh for so long. Thanks 🤣
Fun reaction, Addie. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) looks like so much fun and I'm so glad that you enjoyed this movie. My favorite scenes were when they made it to Walley World, only to discover that it was closed, and when they went on all of the rides with Clark holding a BB gun to the security guard.
I just watched Across the Spiderverse and havent gotten nearly enough reactions and reviews in. While binging, I saw your video and at that moment I realized how much Ive come to enjoy and look forward to your reactions! They mean something to me. I dont know how we got here, but were here. So cheers to you and all the other viewers and thank you. Ill get back to the Spider-Man stuff after your video.
Word. As much as it sucked to be packed into a car for miles (Dad eventually upgraded to Van) these Family movies make you appreciate those times. You suffered. But you suffered as a family. 😂
This one follows a lot of the same beats as Christmas Vacation just on a road trip. The guy who was at the camp played the boss in Christmas Vacation, Bill Murray's brother.
My craziest family vacation was when I was 18 and had a 6mo old sister! We rented an RV and pulled a boat 600 miles to a lake. Starting with a 2 hour delay getting the trailer lights fixed, a 12 hour drive to start the trip, my dad hitting his head on the RV bunk ceiling, a wrong turn and detour, 4 days straight of rain, and a leaky water system in the RV that soaked the carpets. Fortunately my father could fix it. We finally did have a few days of fun on the lake, only to have a 600 mile drive back home.
Yes, that is Brian from Breakfast Club. Aunt Edna made it in one piece but the dog didn't 😳😉 And my favorite thing in the whole movie is watching people react to the girls talking about french kissing and the cousin says "Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it"🤣🤣🤣
"It think you're all @#$%ed in the head!" That's a sure sign the vacation has turned a corner. There's of course a similar meltdown/monologue in Christmas Vacation.
2:43 if you watch this scene again in full you'll notice Ellen is scraping food off the plates, handing them to Clark who proceeds to wipe them with a towel and put them directly away instead of the dishwasher which is open for that reason. Took me 30 years to notice that
If you take everything that went wrong on every vacation you've ever taken combined... then match it with things that (hopefully) never happened... you have half this movie. One of the all time classics.
IRL, Imogene Coca (Aunt Edna) was a dear, sweet little old lady, as everyone called her. This is one of the first movies to actually go cross-country and shoot along the way. The shoot wasn't nearly as arduous as the Griswold family trip. However, director John Hughes didn't find out until after they began filming that Coca had a huge phobia of going long distances by car related to a serious accident she'd been in when she was younger. Everyone felt terrible for her having to live her greatest fear for the whole shoot. The stunt people did set a world record for distance traveled through the air in a station wagon.
While my family managed to avoid killing anything on our driving vacations, but we had our share of disasters. And many years later, looking back, they made the trips better.
@@yournamehere6002 the second one has more of Michael Winslows sound affects like when he is eating and this couple sits near him and he makes it as though they are eating loudly lol ruins a relationship in record time. Plus Bobcat is always funny.
Watching this one sets the tone for the rest and you know all the inside jokes. We watch Christmas Vacation every year as well. Also the music in this is so good, Lindsay Buckingham's song Holiday Road is perfect.
Yes. Michael Anthony Hall did the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Chevy Chase has a number of movies under his belt including Caddyshack playing opposite of Bill Murray. Christie Brinkley ( The Blonde ) was a super model back in the day. The Late an great John Candy did The Great Outdoors playing opposite Dan Aykroyd, Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, And Automobiles playing opposite Steve Martin. He was also in Home Alone.
A bit of trivia about this move … the original ending had Clark kidnapping Roy Walley at his home (something they later used in Christmas Vacation), but that ending didn’t do well with test audiences … so months after the original ending was filmed, they re-filmed the ending at the amusement park … during the break between filming the original ending and the new ending, Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) had a growth spurt … throughout the entire movie he was shorter than his mom, Ellen (Beverly DeAngelo), but in the ending scene at the amusement park, he’s taller than Ellen.
I can't imagine a theme park would ever shut down in the middle of the busy season for repairs. If I ride needed repairs they're shut down just that ride.
The woman in the red car is supermodel Christie Brinkley. They changed the music for whenever Clark sees her. Originally they used "I'm So Excited", but copyright got in the way, so they had to change it for the video release. I'm pretty sure that the version on pay cable had the original soundtrack.
Nice reaction. But, you missed the very subtle joke at the beginning where Ellen is scraping the food off the plates, and Clark just then wipes them with a towel and puts them away in the cabinet... as if they are clean!!! And, it was another Aunt (Bethany) in Christmas Vacation.
The Family Truckster was meant to be a freakshow combination of all the ugly parts of 1970s stationwagons. If you've seen Parks&Rec you should recognize the blonde in the Ferrari. 40 years later Christie Brinkley still looks AMAZING.
Great reaction, Addie, glad to see you had fun watching this one, and may I say you're looking fantastic in this video as always! When you said early on "that poor dog" and "at least we found the motel and no-one died" I was probably not alone in thinking: "Lady, you ain't seen nothing yet!" 😂 Then the penny dropped as to the kind of comedy you were watching by the time you said "At some point are we going to end up dragging the dog?" and you had it sussed from there on!
I don't remember whether it was Addie or someone else I saw wearing a Ferris Bueller shirt, but I received an email about a half hour ago from La-La Land Records concerning the fact that they are currently having a flash sale on the limited edition Ferris Bueller CD soundtrack, in case anyone is interested.
My parents taped this movie off TV circa '85/'86 (not long after we'd seen "European Vacation") and we watched it regularly for the next several years. Of course, as a result of seeing this edited-for-TV version, I didn't know about the 'attempted vehicular blowjob' scene until getting it on DVD in the early '00s (a friend of mine had told me about the 'nudie book' scene, Audrey's pot through-line, and the shots of Ellen's breasts when we watched it together some time in the early '90s). And, well, this taped version also at least still had the Pointer Sisters song "I'm So Excited" playing during Clark's 2 on-the-road encounters with the girl in the red Ferrari... which has been replaced with the "Little Boy Sweet" song used during their rest area encounter in between said 2 scenes since being released on DVD. It frankly annoys me a bit that Warner Brothers apparently can't be bothered to spring for the clearance for this song in order to reinstate into the movie once again. I feel it had much more immediacy in those scenes.
You might have missed the subtle (for this movie) gag with the dishes. Ellen thinks Clark is helping her LOAD the dishwasher. Clark thinks he's helping Ellen UNLOAD it so he's just wiping the unwashed dishes with a filthy rag and putting them in the cabinet.
Another funny 80s 'vacation' movie is "The Great Outdoors", which stars John Candy and Dan Aykroyd. I think you'd like that one, too. About the poor dog - If it helps, consider the possibility that the dog did indeed slip out of the leash right away, and that the police officer was only assuming there would be a carcass, and that all he saw was the leash and jumped to conclusions.. By the way, I don't know if you already know this, but National Lampoon is the name of a comedy magazine that spoofs/parodies pop culture, current events, etc, hence the word 'lampoon'. It was started by a couple of Harvard grads who previously worked on a similar publication at the university, called The Harvard Lampoon. Apparently, that one has been around since the 1870's. Not a typo. It's that old.
Did you notice Clark's old car that got crushed was a Vista Cruiser? If you're a fan of That '70s Show, you know the car. Yes, Rusty in this one was in The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Edward Scissorhands, and on TV's The Dead Zone, and Rusty in the Christmas one was on Roseanne, The Conners, and The Big Bang Theory. As you might guess, European Vacation and Vegas Vacation have different Rustys too. And Audreys. And they celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary in 1997 in Vegas. John Hughes wrote this based on a childhood vacation - 1959, I think.
Blonde sports car lady is former supermodel Christie Brinkley, former wife of singer Billy Joel. Jane was a crush of mine since, "Ally McBeal" (1997 TV series). She has a cute nose on the same cuteness level of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The original story by John Hughes written for the National Lampoon magazine that inspired this movie is hilarious, too. As is the one that inspired Christmas Vacation. Those were the two from the series that were inspired by (loosely) Hugh's real life experiences and comedic writings about them. Spoiler alert: at the end of the original story in the magazine the family father ends up going to jail for shooting Walt Disney and the rest of the family flies home.
I enjoy all of the original Vacation movies, but European Vacation is probably my fave. For a movie with John Candy and Eugene Levy (the car salesman) - Armed & Dangerous, with Meg Ryan
"European Vacation" doesn't hold up for me. It's a little too broadly-written, and Audrey is really annoying in it. The funniest part for me was Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) as the extremely polite British tourist that the Griswolds literally keep running into throughout their trip. Ultimately the movie is merely a footnote for me in terms of it being the first time I ever saw tits on the big screen. I've never seen "Vegas Vacation" or the 2015 remake/sequel hybrid, but I haven't heard good things about them, either.
I originally saw all of the Vacation movies in one marathon on one day. I remember liking "European Vacation" the best at the time. But I've seen so many reactions to this and to "Christmas Vacation" and never saw a reaction to "European Vacation." I'd love to see a reaction to it just to see if I still like it. I barely remember it now.
"Rusty" went on to be in a series of teen movies in the 80s, most notably, the Breakfast club, and Pretty in Pink. Later see him in the movie "ThE Dark Knight" as a pain in the butt reporter.
Little behind the scenes on the cop dog leash scene, #1: The scene was going to be very dark than what it ended up being, you would actually see blood trails behind the rear tires but decided not to do that. #2: Chevy and the actor who played the cop kept trying to keep a straight face because they were laughing so much, they were actually crying out of laughter.
I recall reading the original story in National Lampoon magazine. But its ending had Clark being rightfully arrested and jailed for his act of terrorism at the theme park. As movies about road trips from hell go, however, I think you'll find LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE to be much more realistic, and much more touching, too, as it contains, in contrast, likeable 3-D characters people can actually identify with.
You're possibly judging it on criteria that weren't considered of major importance when producing the movie, I think they were mainly going for funny. how well they achieved that is a matter of personal taste
@@keithwarrington2430 I didn't say it wasn't funny. But I am noting that there is nothing likeable about any of its characters and I am judging it against a movie of a similar theme that does contain likeable characters and is superior also in every other way. This is no different from saying that yeah, Jack Nicholson did a great job playing the Joker, but then I saw Heath Ledger's Joker and was blown away by it. So what have I said that you disagree with?
Who else recognized the voice of Marty Moose as belonging to the film's director, Harold Ramis -- better known for his role as Ghostbuster Dr. Egon Spengler (rest his soul).
Hate to say it because I put off watching it for years because I assumed I'd be disappointed but Vacation 2015 was actually quite funny and worth a watch. I liked it better than Vegas and close to European
In the 80s we picked on each other all the time. Today those kids would be seen as very "rude" but back then that was normal. For me the best part is Chevy in the scene after the dog died. it was dark but it's all in how it's played. His ultra fake crying and the way the other actor says "pooch" just cracks me up. It's funny not because the dog died but that it's the 50th bizarre thing to happen to them in a row. It's all about framing and pulling it off. And the scene with them getting tires stolen honestly made fun more of them then it did of the people who lived there. It was a very exgarated stereotype and imo shows how ridiculous that stereotype poor neighborhood really was. And that pimp cut him down with the best comeback ever lol
This movie is the ultimate road trip from hell. The ending was a lot different: After the Griswolds learn that Wally World is closed, they go to a gun store, find Roy Wally's house and hold him and his family hostage, even forcing them to dance for their entertainment. When the neighbors see what's happening, they call the police, where SWAT officers break in and save Wally and his family. The Griswolds end up getting arrested but Wally drops the charges, and reminds the family they have been banned from his park and they must never return to California. They agree and the family flies back Chicago.
I remember seeing this in the theater. I was the only one who laughed when the cop said "the dog probably kept up for a mile or so." Not sure what that says about me.
"Daddy says I'm the best at it" was too naughty for tv in the 80's so that line is changed to "My Science Teacher says I'm the best at it" 🤣
Yeah " F yo mama" became " who do I look like Christopher Columbo?"
The amusement park is Six Flags Magic Mountain. The white wooden roller coaster is the Colossus. I was a ride operator on the Colossus form '79-'81. This was filmed after I left, but my friends were the ride operators for "Vacation".
Thanks for telling me that, for forty years I've always wondered, Who the hell was running those rides.
In the 80s almost every teenage boy had a poster of Christy Brinkley (Ferrari girl) on their bedroom wall.
They also had Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek posters on their walls.
Sports illustrated cover 1981
I love the "you think you hate it now, just wait 'til you drive it" line, because it's a car salesman *actually telling the truth*.
"I'm not your ordinary, everyday fool." That's right, Clark, you are truly one heck of a special kind of fool! 🤣
A lot of people prefer Christmas Vacation, but this one will always be my favourite. Couldn't even guess how many times I've seen it since I was a kid.
Another awesome reaction, you rock Addie. 👍✌❤
yea this is by far my favorite of the NL films
I like Christmas Vacation, but this one is WAY better! An absolute classic!!
Christmas Vacation really needs this as a foundation.
I agree, this is the best of the series. And Dana Barron was the best Audrey too, IMO.
Christmas vacation and vacation from 1983 are the funniest in my opinion 😊
That girl in the red sports car is Christie Brinkley, one of the top models in the US at the time, and probably elsewhere, as well. The whole audience would have recognized her back in the day, because her face was everywhere.
Also married Billy Joel who everyone should also know
She was his uptown girl
Fun fact: In the original version of the movie, when it shows the Griswolds crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Missouri and Ellen says "I don't think this is the right exit," Clark then says "What does it matter as long as we get across the river?"... in the very next scene when they're lost in the bad neighborhood there was a caption at the bottom of the screen that said "East St. Louis". This made no sense because East St. Louis is in Illinois. They later edited it out.
Please watch the John Candy movie "Uncle Buck".
I hope she watches the Resident Evil Movies with Milla Jovovich
Also The Great Outdoors with John Candy. Funny movie.
@@aramire7also 'Only the Lonely' underrated John Candy film
Randy Quaid is so brilliant as Cousin Eddie, in this movie and others. I just love him all around, but never moreso than in that role.
I cant believe that the kids were actually 15 and 17 when this movie came out. Anthony Michael Hall looks about 13, but he was 15, and the actress who played his sister looks 12. She's actually 17.
Ah yes, the 1980s....when you could always count on seeing some tiddies in a family comedy.
A tiny fact about this movie during the scene where Clark gets pulled over by the cop and while they are both talking about the dog if you notice neither of them can keep a straight face
Eddie's son is the first person to utter a line on the sit com "Cheers"
I love the songs Holiday Road & Dancin Across the USA 🎵.
"Holiday Road" being used in every "Vacation" movie except "Christmas Vacation," of course.
Don't forget the fried cat in Christmas Vacation.
That kind of dark humor was on-brand for National Lampoon, the magazine that branded these movies.
I've seen this movie so often but right now I just realized that the car salesman at the beginning is the dad from American Pie.
I had a friend in college, when she was a kid, the lady in the red Ferrari (Christie Brinkley) used to babysitter her.
This movie is older than I am and I JUST noticed that when he leaves Wally world to go to the sporting goods store, the car he cuts off is the same model, but in the blue colour he said he ordered at the beginning of the movie.
"Getting there is half the fun, you know that." Such ominous words.
A few months ago, when I drove to Orlando, and I saw the sign "Walt Disney World -- Next Two Exits," I immediately thought of Clark going "Walley World -- Next Three Exits".
I love this movie.
Harold Ramis direct this movie. The same man directed Groundhog Day & play as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters trilogy.
There are only two Ghostbusters movies.
Yes there is, third sequel called Ghostbusters Afterlife.
Those were FUN movies for their day. I was a teenager when these came out and me and my friends laughed our butts off and talked and talked about these movies for years.
8:25 best double take ever 🤣 🤣 🤣
"Yeah but Daddy said I'm the best at it"
That reaction to that line is the best reaction I've ever seen you give Addie! It made me laugh for so long. Thanks 🤣
Notice the photo that shows that the family flew back home. Wow, they actually learned something.
Fun reaction, Addie. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) looks like so much fun and I'm so glad that you enjoyed this movie. My favorite scenes were when they made it to Walley World, only to discover that it was closed, and when they went on all of the rides with Clark holding a BB gun to the security guard.
Speaking of John Candy, I also suggest Spaceballs: The Movie (1987).
Look at rusty’s height difference from beginning and at the end. He grew 6 inches while filming.
I just watched Across the Spiderverse and havent gotten nearly enough reactions and reviews in. While binging, I saw your video and at that moment I realized how much Ive come to enjoy and look forward to your reactions! They mean something to me. I dont know how we got here, but were here. So cheers to you and all the other viewers and thank you. Ill get back to the Spider-Man stuff after your video.
This is still my favourite of the Vacation movies, back when they still had a little edge to them.
Word. As much as it sucked to be packed into a car for miles (Dad eventually upgraded to Van) these Family movies make you appreciate those times.
You suffered. But you suffered as a family. 😂
This one follows a lot of the same beats as Christmas Vacation just on a road trip. The guy who was at the camp played the boss in Christmas Vacation, Bill Murray's brother.
Your facial reactions in this are hilarious!!! Thanks!!! 🤣
The French kissing reaction was GOLD!
Frank Jane krakoski no less.
This brings back memories.
This has a funny title in Norwegian.
"Hjelp, vi må på ferie!" which translates to "Help, we gotta go on vacation!" 🤣
My craziest family vacation was when I was 18 and had a 6mo old sister! We rented an RV and pulled a boat 600 miles to a lake. Starting with a 2 hour delay getting the trailer lights fixed, a 12 hour drive to start the trip, my dad hitting his head on the RV bunk ceiling, a wrong turn and detour, 4 days straight of rain, and a leaky water system in the RV that soaked the carpets. Fortunately my father could fix it. We finally did have a few days of fun on the lake, only to have a 600 mile drive back home.
FYI, That's always what we're thinking.
I think you Awkward Ashley Burton and Mary Cherry would be an awesome reaction team.
RE Christie Brinkley: "She's ugly" LOL
Yes, that is Brian from Breakfast Club.
Aunt Edna made it in one piece but the dog didn't 😳😉
And my favorite thing in the whole movie is watching people react to the girls talking about french kissing and the cousin says "Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it"🤣🤣🤣
"It think you're all @#$%ed in the head!" That's a sure sign the vacation has turned a corner. There's of course a similar meltdown/monologue in Christmas Vacation.
2:43 if you watch this scene again in full you'll notice Ellen is scraping food off the plates, handing them to Clark who proceeds to wipe them with a towel and put them directly away instead of the dishwasher which is open for that reason. Took me 30 years to notice that
haha, I just mentioned the same thing, but I think I picked up on this gag after about 25 years!! 🙃
@@PatrickWagz haha it's amazing how many times we can watch something and still miss things. But that's what makes it so great!
If you take everything that went wrong on every vacation you've ever taken combined... then match it with things that (hopefully) never happened... you have half this movie. One of the all time classics.
He's Farmer Ted in sixteen candles, what a great movie that is.
In my opinion this is the best Vacation by far.
And now for _European Vacation_ (second movie) and _Vegas Vacation_ (fourth and final movie; _Christmas Vacation_ was the third).
There's 5 if you count the 2015 sequel/remake hybrid... but this one and "Christmas Vacation" are the only ones that are almost universally loved.
Thank you for making me happy for 31 minutes and 41 seconds!!!
IRL, Imogene Coca (Aunt Edna) was a dear, sweet little old lady, as everyone called her.
This is one of the first movies to actually go cross-country and shoot along the way. The shoot wasn't nearly as arduous as the Griswold family trip. However, director John Hughes didn't find out until after they began filming that Coca had a huge phobia of going long distances by car related to a serious accident she'd been in when she was younger. Everyone felt terrible for her having to live her greatest fear for the whole shoot.
The stunt people did set a world record for distance traveled through the air in a station wagon.
*Harold Ramis directed; John Hughes just wrote this one.
While my family managed to avoid killing anything on our driving vacations, but we had our share of disasters. And many years later, looking back, they made the trips better.
Same. And those disasters are the memories my family still talks about
One of those movies thats just fun!
If you love 80s comedies you can’t go wrong with Police Academy 1 and 2
Just Police Academy. The sequels are awful, including 2
My favourite is Citizens on Patrol.
@@TheYoungDoctor meh
@@yournamehere6002 the second one has more of Michael Winslows sound affects like when he is eating and this couple sits near him and he makes it as though they are eating loudly lol ruins a relationship in record time. Plus Bobcat is always funny.
@@andrewft31 not a Bobcat fan
Watching this one sets the tone for the rest and you know all the inside jokes. We watch Christmas Vacation every year as well. Also the music in this is so good, Lindsay Buckingham's song Holiday Road is perfect.
Merry Christmas! Shitter was full!
@@wyrmshadow4374 have you checked your shitter?
Yes. Michael Anthony Hall did the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Chevy Chase has a number of movies under his belt including Caddyshack playing opposite of Bill Murray. Christie Brinkley ( The Blonde ) was a super model back in the day. The Late an great John Candy did The Great Outdoors playing opposite Dan Aykroyd, Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, And Automobiles playing opposite Steve Martin. He was also in Home Alone.
Fun fact. Holiday Road was written and performed by Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac.
Your heart didn't lie. Leave it to Clark to make good on a flippant promise (to kill the dog) by accident, and in about the most horrific kind of way.
It is a crime that Addie does not have over 100k subscribers.
A bit of trivia about this move … the original ending had Clark kidnapping Roy Walley at his home (something they later used in Christmas Vacation), but that ending didn’t do well with test audiences … so months after the original ending was filmed, they re-filmed the ending at the amusement park … during the break between filming the original ending and the new ending, Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) had a growth spurt … throughout the entire movie he was shorter than his mom, Ellen (Beverly DeAngelo), but in the ending scene at the amusement park, he’s taller than Ellen.
I can't imagine a theme park would ever shut down in the middle of the busy season for repairs. If I ride needed repairs they're shut down just that ride.
"You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it." Yeah, Clark will hate it even more--that's what he meant!
The woman in the red car is supermodel Christie Brinkley. They changed the music for whenever Clark sees her. Originally they used "I'm So Excited", but copyright got in the way, so they had to change it for the video release. I'm pretty sure that the version on pay cable had the original soundtrack.
Even so, you'd think Warner would be willing to spring for the clearance on it for such a popular movie. 🤷♂
yes Rusty is played by Anthony Michael Hall who plays Brian in Breakfast Club. well spotted.
Nice reaction. But, you missed the very subtle joke at the beginning where Ellen is scraping the food off the plates, and Clark just then wipes them with a towel and puts them away in the cabinet... as if they are clean!!!
And, it was another Aunt (Bethany) in Christmas Vacation.
The Family Truckster was meant to be a freakshow combination of all the ugly parts of 1970s stationwagons.
If you've seen Parks&Rec you should recognize the blonde in the Ferrari. 40 years later Christie Brinkley still looks AMAZING.
Hard to believe this movie turns 40 this summer.
Great reaction, Addie, glad to see you had fun watching this one, and may I say you're looking fantastic in this video as always!
When you said early on "that poor dog" and "at least we found the motel and no-one died" I was probably not alone in thinking: "Lady, you ain't seen nothing yet!" 😂 Then the penny dropped as to the kind of comedy you were watching by the time you said "At some point are we going to end up dragging the dog?" and you had it sussed from there on!
I love how its storming when they get into phoenix, I lived there for 17 years, and an Arizona super storm lasts only about 10 mins.
I don't remember whether it was Addie or someone else I saw wearing a Ferris Bueller shirt, but I received an email about a half hour ago from La-La Land Records concerning the fact that they are currently having a flash sale on the limited edition Ferris Bueller CD soundtrack, in case anyone is interested.
Addie predicted the dog being dragged and Aunt Edna being left on the patio. Maybe she has a darker sense of humor than she lets on.🤔
@30:15 Thank you so much Addie, we need more positive thinkers in the world like you 🙂
My parents taped this movie off TV circa '85/'86 (not long after we'd seen "European Vacation") and we watched it regularly for the next several years. Of course, as a result of seeing this edited-for-TV version, I didn't know about the 'attempted vehicular blowjob' scene until getting it on DVD in the early '00s (a friend of mine had told me about the 'nudie book' scene, Audrey's pot through-line, and the shots of Ellen's breasts when we watched it together some time in the early '90s). And, well, this taped version also at least still had the Pointer Sisters song "I'm So Excited" playing during Clark's 2 on-the-road encounters with the girl in the red Ferrari... which has been replaced with the "Little Boy Sweet" song used during their rest area encounter in between said 2 scenes since being released on DVD. It frankly annoys me a bit that Warner Brothers apparently can't be bothered to spring for the clearance for this song in order to reinstate into the movie once again. I feel it had much more immediacy in those scenes.
The girl in the red ferrari being Christy Brinkley
@@keithwarrington2430 Yes, most people here already know that. 'Girl in the Red Ferrari' is literally what her character is called in the credits.
You might have missed the subtle (for this movie) gag with the dishes. Ellen thinks Clark is helping her LOAD the dishwasher. Clark thinks he's helping Ellen UNLOAD it so he's just wiping the unwashed dishes with a filthy rag and putting them in the cabinet.
Another funny 80s 'vacation' movie is "The Great Outdoors", which stars John Candy and Dan Aykroyd. I think you'd like that one, too.
About the poor dog - If it helps, consider the possibility that the dog did indeed slip out of the leash right away, and that the police officer was only assuming there would be a carcass, and that all he saw was the leash and jumped to conclusions..
By the way, I don't know if you already know this, but National Lampoon is the name of a comedy magazine that spoofs/parodies pop culture, current events, etc, hence the word 'lampoon'.
It was started by a couple of Harvard grads who previously worked on a similar publication at the university, called The Harvard Lampoon. Apparently, that one has been around since the 1870's. Not a typo. It's that old.
Did you notice Clark's old car that got crushed was a Vista Cruiser? If you're a fan of That '70s Show, you know the car.
Yes, Rusty in this one was in The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Edward Scissorhands, and on TV's The Dead Zone, and Rusty in the Christmas one was on Roseanne, The Conners, and The Big Bang Theory. As you might guess, European Vacation and Vegas Vacation have different Rustys too. And Audreys. And they celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary in 1997 in Vegas.
John Hughes wrote this based on a childhood vacation - 1959, I think.
The boy is Anthony Michael Hall from many things around that time. Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science....
I have never seen a movie show how airbags work or what they look like correctly.
The mechanic/sheriff in a ton of movies and an original member of, The Band. His partner also in a bunch of movies and the TV show, Miami Vice!
Blonde sports car lady is former supermodel Christie Brinkley, former wife of singer Billy Joel.
Jane was a crush of mine since, "Ally McBeal" (1997 TV series). She has a cute nose on the same cuteness level of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
In deleted scenes the dog was limping while walking on the side of the road headed back home. The dog was also seen in Vegas Vacation. *Feel better.*
This actually happened to me and a friend. We went to Magic Mountain on a beautiful sunny day in September.
It was closed for the season. 😐
The blond girl daughter of Cousin Eddie grew up to become famous actress Jane Karakowsi.
In the original story, which was in a single dedicated issue of National Lampoon, Clark ends up going to prison for shooting Walt Disney.
When he shouts for Russ but Russ is standing right next to him :) Love your reactions in this one
Fletch and Fletch Lives are also very good Chevy Chase films.
As well as "Foul Play" and "Caddyshack."
Welcome to the Griswold era of the "National Lampoon" movies!
The original story by John Hughes written for the National Lampoon magazine that inspired this movie is hilarious, too. As is the one that inspired Christmas Vacation. Those were the two from the series that were inspired by (loosely) Hugh's real life experiences and comedic writings about them. Spoiler alert: at the end of the original story in the magazine the family father ends up going to jail for shooting Walt Disney and the rest of the family flies home.
I enjoy all of the original Vacation movies, but European Vacation is probably my fave.
For a movie with John Candy and Eugene Levy (the car salesman) - Armed & Dangerous, with Meg Ryan
To bad so few reactors watch European Vacation. Most just watch the first one or Christmas Vacation.
"European Vacation" doesn't hold up for me. It's a little too broadly-written, and Audrey is really annoying in it. The funniest part for me was Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) as the extremely polite British tourist that the Griswolds literally keep running into throughout their trip. Ultimately the movie is merely a footnote for me in terms of it being the first time I ever saw tits on the big screen. I've never seen "Vegas Vacation" or the 2015 remake/sequel hybrid, but I haven't heard good things about them, either.
I originally saw all of the Vacation movies in one marathon on one day. I remember liking "European Vacation" the best at the time. But I've seen so many reactions to this and to "Christmas Vacation" and never saw a reaction to "European Vacation." I'd love to see a reaction to it just to see if I still like it. I barely remember it now.
@@BubblyRainbows Just goes to show how far more well-regarded this and "Christmas Vacation" are compared to the other movies in the series.
John Candy and Eugene Levy are also in Splash which is some of the best of Levy.
Another great job.
Yes that's Anthony Michael hall from breakfast club and 16 candles and edward scissorhands and countless others
You screamed that's a lot of money when he asked for *$52,000* well in today's money that's *$160,000*
"Rusty" went on to be in a series of teen movies in the 80s, most notably, the Breakfast club, and Pretty in Pink. Later see him in the movie "ThE Dark Knight" as a pain in the butt reporter.
25:24 Don’t forget the dog.
fun fact is that the actually film crew drove from Chicago to LA to simulate the movie while shooting.
Aunt Edna is Ellen's aunt. The aunt that was in Christmas Vacation was Clark's Aunt Bethany
... which makes you wonder after seeing "Christmas Vacation," was Edna the sister of Ellen's mother or father?
Little behind the scenes on the cop dog leash scene, #1: The scene was going to be very dark than what it ended up being, you would actually see blood trails behind the rear tires but decided not to do that. #2: Chevy and the actor who played the cop kept trying to keep a straight face because they were laughing so much, they were actually crying out of laughter.
The St Louis scene is hilarious to me. I live in St Louis
I recall reading the original story in National Lampoon magazine. But its ending had Clark being rightfully arrested and jailed for his act of terrorism at the theme park.
As movies about road trips from hell go, however, I think you'll find LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE to be much more realistic, and much more touching, too, as it contains, in contrast, likeable 3-D characters people can actually identify with.
You're possibly judging it on criteria that weren't considered of major importance when producing the movie, I think they were mainly going for funny. how well they achieved that is a matter of personal taste
@@keithwarrington2430 I didn't say it wasn't funny. But I am noting that there is nothing likeable about any of its characters and I am judging it against a movie of a similar theme that does contain likeable characters and is superior also in every other way.
This is no different from saying that yeah, Jack Nicholson did a great job playing the Joker, but then I saw Heath Ledger's Joker and was blown away by it. So what have I said that you disagree with?
Who else recognized the voice of Marty Moose as belonging to the film's director, Harold Ramis -- better known for his role as Ghostbuster Dr. Egon Spengler (rest his soul).
Hate to say it because I put off watching it for years because I assumed I'd be disappointed but Vacation 2015 was actually quite funny and worth a watch. I liked it better than Vegas and close to European
Clark was lucky enough to come away from this road trip with his life, let alone his freedom.
In the 80s we picked on each other all the time. Today those kids would be seen as very "rude" but back then that was normal. For me the best part is Chevy in the scene after the dog died. it was dark but it's all in how it's played. His ultra fake crying and the way the other actor says "pooch" just cracks me up. It's funny not because the dog died but that it's the 50th bizarre thing to happen to them in a row. It's all about framing and pulling it off. And the scene with them getting tires stolen honestly made fun more of them then it did of the people who lived there. It was a very exgarated stereotype and imo shows how ridiculous that stereotype poor neighborhood really was. And that pimp cut him down with the best comeback ever lol
This movie is the ultimate road trip from hell.
The ending was a lot different:
After the Griswolds learn that Wally World is closed, they go to a gun store, find Roy Wally's house and hold him and his family hostage, even forcing them to dance for their entertainment.
When the neighbors see what's happening, they call the police, where SWAT officers break in and save Wally and his family. The Griswolds end up getting arrested but Wally drops the charges, and reminds the family they have been banned from his park and they must never return to California. They agree and the family flies back Chicago.
I remember seeing this in the theater. I was the only one who laughed when the cop said "the dog probably kept up for a mile or so." Not sure what that says about me.
Every teenage boy wanted to have a Christy Brinkley she was married to Billy Joel. They have a Daughter and are still Friends
The main women who was Respected was Imogene Coca aunt Edna in this Movie she was a saint in the 40-70