In sticking to our holiday theme for the vault picks this month, I was nothing more then ecstatic to get to kick it off with one of my favourite X-mas movies, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. In the third of the Vacation series, this time we find the Griswolds staying put and having the madness and adventure come to them. It has everything that you want from a Vacation movie, ridiculous stunts, sexual fantasy sequences, mis-understandings and Cousin Eddie.
I don’t want to list all my favourite parts because that list would be really long, but I love the super fast snow disc sequence, the 100,000 lights on the house, secret attack squirrel in the tree, and the fact that yet again, Rusty and Audrey Grisworld are played by different actors, this time by Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki.
Its is such a funny and off beat x-mas movie and my holidays aren’t complete without a screening of this flick. In fact this may be the year that I finally pick it up on DVD.
I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?
Ahhhh Christmas.
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While I wouldn’t consider myself to be a fan of either film, I think that Christmas Vacation has aged better over the years than A Christmas Story. I think that some of the gags used in Vacation have a more universally appealing/timeless quality, while A Christmas Story made use of an anecdotal style of storytelling that went out of popularity somewhere in the midst of the 3rd season of The Wonder Years.