Wacky hijinks ensue, some of them very funny, some dipping desperately into bad taste, some just falling flat. (Which, it's worth remembering, was the case with even the best films of this franchise.)

| May 27, 2016

It's hard to imagine even Hangover fans being satisfied by such middling vulgarity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 23, 2015

At its best, the film is very funny. At its worst, it makes you groan in dismay.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2015

At least the National Lampoon films were memorable, which is more than can be said for the misbegotten and instantly forgettable Vacation.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 20, 2015

It's similar to the recent comedy We're the Millers, with Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston in the dad and mom roles. That had more laughs and more heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2015

The picture is ramshackle, episodic and mindless. But, with a comic hit-to-miss ratio of around 2:1, it must be accorded a success in its (admittedly unchallenging) field.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Go home, Vacation. You're drunk.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Less a reboot, more a hit-and-miss cover-version. The cast are game, Applegate especially, but the laughs flatten like a deflated tyre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2015

On the film rumbles, raising a few more smiles than moments when you want to wince in discomfort or eat cyanide, but only a few.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2015

A solidly funny summer comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2015

I'm all for bawdy, politically incorrect, wildly inappropriate humor -- when there are consistent and genuine laughs to be mined from the material.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 13, 2015

You can't do much worse at the movies than Vacation.

| Aug 5, 2015

There's so much dead air in the film that I wondered whether punchlines had been cleaved out to secure a PG-13 rating, but no: it's a hard, inexplicable R.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 31, 2015

It's as if Daley and Goldstein started with a list of disgusting topics - outré sex acts, human waste, pubic hair, projectile vomiting, cow cannibalism, et al. - and constructed a narrative around them.

| Jul 31, 2015

Helms' Griswold is a dangerous, moronic maniac, and the filmmakers' disdain for him rubs off on the audience.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 31, 2015

It holds on to the original's acrid cynicism for the first 40 minutes or so before turning predictable and bland. There are some real, nasty laughs to be had here, but they're front-loaded.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 30, 2015

Vacation is lazy, idiotic, and gross - and I laughed my ass off at it.

| Jul 30, 2015

It falls to Helms to carry the movie, and he's not quite up to it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 30, 2015

Respectably funny.

| Jul 30, 2015

No one expects originality, but the new movie may end up making history: It's already looking like the worst movie of the year.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jul 30, 2015