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Director: Jeremiah Chechik
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’ Angelo, Juliette Lewis, John Galecki, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, Randy Quaid
Chevy Chase leads the way in this, the third chapter of his legacy Vacation film series. The movie moves pretty fast, relying on lots of physical pratfall comedy in the what-else-can-go-wrong style. Series staples, Beverly D’Angelo and Dennis Quaid are back and the film sticks pretty close to the same formula as its predecessors. It works, though and the result is a warm, funny, good-hearted comedy that is sure to give you a little Christmas spirit on top of a few chuckles.
Chevy Chase is, once again, the well-meaning, but obsessive and oblivious Clark Griswold. In this installment, Clark is determined to have an old-fashioned family Christmas in his home, but, predictably, things go wrong from the start and soon Clark is wrangling a Christmas tree, playing electrical engineer to enough lights to guide the space shuttle back to Earth, among other things, all the while dealing with the stress of having relatives visiting and a missing Christmas bonus. The interplay between Chase and Quaid is always great and look for Julia Lewis-Dreyfus in a supporting pre-Seinfeld role.
I enjoy the Vacation series, well except for that sorry European sequel, and this a good one. It is clichéd, and there isn’t too much here that you don’t see in the usual seasonal comedy, but Chase does it well and it should give you a little boost in Christmas spirit as it entertains.
