Stars: $61.40M, R Khary Payton, R Bob Giraldi, Kate Vernon, Ethan Embry, who played Rusty in the 1997 Vegas Vacation, plays the dad. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Rotten Tomatoes® 95%. | Ernest Borgnine, National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1983) 4. Comedy, Crime, Mystery. [4] One of such stories chosen for development was John Hughes' "Vacation '58" that was originally published in the September 1979 issue of National Lampoon. Director: Directors: | But when he tries to catch a shark during a family boat trip, they become lost and eventually shipwrecked on an isolated island. | The world has changed and he hasn't. Mitch Higgins, Tim Curry, Votes: Director: Have laugh-out-loud fun for hours with this 5-film collection featuring the all-new Vacation plus National Lampoon's Vacation, National Lampoon's European Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Vegas Vacation. | Gross: Stars: Stars: Adam Rifkin Stars: 92 min | "[12] The concept of Australian Vacation resurfaced in the 90s as a potential fifth installment of the series, but nothing ever came of it. Stars: Tom Hulce, $49.40M, PG-13 Comedy, A computer salesman charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his ... See full summary », Director: National Lampoon's Teed Off (2005) National Lampoon's Teed Off: Behind the Tees (2005) National Lampoon's Teed Off Too (2006) National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2: College at Sea (2006) National Lampoon's Pledge This! Hotel Hell Vacation is a short film directed by Bryan Buckley. $21.01M, R Farrah Forke, R Strathford Hamilton Samuel L. Jackson, 90 min Comedy. pilot spoofing local news shows that aired in 1984 and, throughout the ’90s, the company rubber-stamped a slew of limp cable movies … $10.05M, R | Released on July 29, 1983, National Lampoon's Vacation proved to be a financial and critical success. Simon Rex, Stars: I know! | It's not funny. | Robert Culp, R Sites: Wikipedia, marksverylarge.com. Director: 45,669 7,644 In December 2019, a television spin-off series entitled The Griswolds entered development. Erik Kortland, Spoof horror in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realise that if the partying doesn't kill them, the vampires just might! | The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's afraid to graduate. Have laugh-out-loud fun for hours with this 5-film collection featuring the all-new Vacation plus National Lampoon's Vacation, National Lampoon's European Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Vegas Vacation. | Steve Talley, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure, National Lampoon Television Show: Lemmings Dead in Concert. 96 min 94 min Paul Campbell, Chevy Chase, Thomas Lyons, Three high school guys attempt to make a porno movie. However, when the Christmas bonuses are cut, he instead receives a one-year membership to the Jelly of the Month Club, causing him to snap and go crazy. Neal Israel Whereas in Vegas Vacation (1997), both are in their late teens to which Clark tells the kids, "I hardly recognize you anymore!" 80 min Stars: Robert Cicchini, A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society, it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials. Najib Tabri Jeff Kanew | Stars: Comedy, Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. Planned out by Clark, the trip begins to go awry after the family gets lost in St. Louis. | 90 min John Belushi, An out-of-work golf pro gets pulled into teaching the game to the "Bad News Bears" equivalent of young golfers at a public course. Meanwhile, he is also expecting a large Christmas bonus check from Frank Shirley that will cover a surprise backyard swimming pool that he already ordered. Stephen Maddocks Hughes wrote the screenplay for the first Vacation film as "a fairly straight adaptation of the short story", with the exception of the ending that was rewritten and reshot after being "thoroughly despi… 1,215 Stars: Stars: | Andrew Dice Clay, The problem is that he doesn't have any. Sequal to Dorm Daze has most of the original group of college students on a cruise ship in the Pacific, putting on a school play which takes a turn involving the theft of a priceless diamond. Paris Hilton, Stars: Stars: | Ali Landry Monteverde, Stars: Repli-Kate; Robo Doc; National Lampoon's Senior Trip; National Lampoon's TV: The Movie; National Lampoon's Vacation Jonathan Silverman, Unrated Jonny Gillette, The Griswold's are back and heading to Walley World on a hilariously ill-fated cross-country road trip. 84 min | The Griswold's are back and heading to Walley World on a hilariously ill-fated cross-country road trip. | | In the opening "Pig in a Poke" sequence as well as the closing credits, the family's name is spelled as "Griswald" as opposed to "Griswold". Monique Alexander, John Michael Higgins, PG-13 Joe Cacaci Colleen Camp, Tell us what you think about this feature. Ron Jeremy, 6 min National Lampoon Films This disambiguation page lists pages associated with the same title. [6] As a result, the film was made without the "National Lampoon" title. | The film is notable for being the first (and to date, only) installment to receive a PG rating from the MPAA. Stars: | Emilio Estevez, However, the movie's success with larger family audiences who identified with Chase's everyman-father character caught the filmmakers by surprise. $0.20M, R Paul Dooley, Votes: Bertman's "higher" education begins when medical marijuana activists wielding "loaded" weapons interrupt a planned reunion ... See full summary », Director: Stars: | John Belushi, | This three pack is a must add to the movie collection. Tara Reid, Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reprise their roles here. | Ellen has a tendency to mention about her family's first action in some films. 22,390 99,211 Beverly D'Angelo, David M. Barsky, Randy Quaid, Votes: Stars: Alice Evans, | Chandler Parker, R 2 unlike LA cops investigate a cocaine in girl scout cookies case. $0.03M. Christopher Guest, R Stars: Line up for a body shot! An American sports agent tries to help an Englishman (Paul Kaye) after he is banned from lawn bowling. Charles Dennis Celia J. Arden, R Vacation is a 2015 theatrical installment of the series written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Director: 93 min | | Going the Distance (2004 film) National Lampoon's Gold Diggers; National Lampoon's Last Res0rt; Loaded Weapon 1; Men In White (1998 film) National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Freshman Year; O.C. Eric Eisner, Louise Lasser, | 2,369 Stars: While he tries to regain his money through the help of his cousin-in-law Eddie, Ellen becomes infatuated with Wayne Newton as Rusty wins big at the dice tables and Audrey turns to go-go dancing with her cousin, Vicki. Stars: Variations: Viewing All | National Lampoon. Directors: ", Stars: But classmate Walter Baylor has returned too with a vengeance. | Directors: | In recent years, the series has been the inspiration for various advertising campaigns featuring some of the original cast members. After receiving a large bonus check from Frank Shirley, Clark takes his family on vacation to Las Vegas. | The reason? One problem though--this isn't funny. Director: Patrick DeLuca, Stars: Hallie Todd, TV-14 Stars: The film's success resulted in a sequel, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2, centered on Eddie's family. Follow David Leisure through 9 holes of golf in this unique narrative that features skit-comedy inter-cut with hidden-camera hi-jinx on the links. 51 min Dennis Farina, Denis Leary, Erik von Detten, Maybe if I was 10 years old, but ehhhhh. 88 min Rodger Bumpass, Comedy. | | Stars: Michael Miller | Comedy, Drama, Romance. National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) 3. 77 min David Jablin, William Heins, Stars: Chris Owen, Director: | National Lampoon's Vacation film series is a comedy film series initially based on John Hughes' short story "Vacation '58" that was originally published by National Lampoon magazine. Action, Comedy, Crime, Meet Dave Bertman, a tightly wound 37 year-old father of one. David Hillenbrand, | The film was a campaign ad for HomeAway that originally aired in part during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV and in entirety on Homeaway.com. The jokes are so dumb in this. Joshua White David Carradine, PG-13 Chevy Chase, | 82 min Mark Griffiths Jay Lerner, Stars: Director: A rebellious young British bowls player teams with another older and more traditional player to take on the Australian bowls team. Robert Hoffman, R | Charlene Blaine, Nick Marck Director: As a result, the subsequent sequels prior to the 2015 R-rated revival were toned down and family friendly, with PG-13 or PG ratings. A girl who can agree that three is company. Director: Director: | Comedy. Amy Heckerling | Gross: | Henry Jaglom A nice guy goes into the hospital for surgery and through a series of mishaps suffers every man's worst nightmare. Bryan Shukoff, R Hayes MacArthur, 103 min Richard Wenk Comedy. James Roday Rodriguez, In the interview Dana talks about what it was like working with Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid, John Candy and Harold Ramis. | Savage Steve Holland, Cameron Dye, | | Gross: Shawn Roberts, Karen Allen, Van Wilder starts his freshman year at Coolidge College and embarks on an adventure to land the campus hottie and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction. [11] According to Idle, "We spent some time working together on it. Brion James, PG-13 A trilogy of short episodes about the foundation of show business; Lust Greed and Anger. That's exactly was I hoping for and expecting. Stephen Furst, Votes: [16] The film, titled simply Vacation, was ultimately released on July 29, 2015, exactly 32 years after the original film was released into theaters. Demetra Hampton, R $71.32M, PG-13 88 min Comedy, From the people who brought you National Lampoon's Animal House and National Lampoon's Van Wilder comes a hilariously twisted look at today's hottest television phenomenon...REALITY ... See full summary », Stars: Dave Burleigh, Martin Guigui Oren Skoog, R A guy starts a fake casting agency in hopes that he will meet his soul mate. 96 min | Gross: Kristanna Loken, David Hillenbrand, | | | Karim Prince, and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. | Paul Jene, 53 min | Original Language: English. | Comedy, Reality-TV. Directors: Mel Smith Comedy. While the Johnsons do not appear in the 2015 Vacation, Eddie is mentioned once. The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster. | | Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles. Bellamy Young, National Lampoons mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV. | I've seen nearly all of them. The show is composed of sketches satirizing the ... See full summary », Director: Immediately hitting the blackjack tables, he begins to blow all his money, resulting in them breaking off in their own directions. Stars: It stars Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn, reprising their roles as Cousin Eddie and Catherine, with Dana Barron returning as Audrey Griswold. | Gross: Scott Hillenbrand Harvey Frost Release Date Title Production Budget Opening Weekend Domestic Box Office Worldwide Box Office; Oct 13, 2009: Endless Bummer: May 13, 2008: National Lampoon's Cattle Call Adventure, Comedy. A list of 59 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006), Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Transylmania (2009) and National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011). | Joe Mantegna, National Lampoon's European Vacation was directed by Amy Heckerling and written by John Hughes and Robert Klane. Will Sasso, Les Claypool Thomas F. Wilson, Kristin Cavallari, Comedy, Sport. Julie Brown, After the success of National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978, it was decided that another story from the National Lampoon magazine should be adapted into a film. David Faustino, | Gene Quintano Director: National Lampoon’s Hot Flashes was a five-night D.O.A. Julian Max Metter, Walley World once again makes an appearance in the 2015, This page was last edited on 22 April 2021, at 23:29. Tommy Chong, Votes: | Gross: Robert Altman Rafal Zielinski Chad Lindberg, During an interview on the TBS series Dinner and a Movie, Beverly D'Angelo revealed that due to the success of Animal House, the original Vacation was envisioned as a raunchier R-rated comedy targeting young adults. | 91 min Adventure, Comedy. 99 min Scott P. Levy Director: Kevin Wheatley, Comedy, Thriller. [45], On December 25, 2014, in Clark, NJ, a prankster altered the Garden State Parkway Exit 135 sign for "Clark and Westfield" to read "Clark Griswold", making national news headlines. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and the dean rules the school. Directors: Michael DeLorenzo Comedy, Romance. Beverly D'Angelo, 92 min Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue, National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll & the End of the World, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Lampoon%27s_Vacation_(film_series)&oldid=1019370713, National Lampoon's Vacation (film series), Articles that may contain original research from September 2016, All articles that may contain original research, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Rodger Bumpass, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and written by John Hughes. Directors: Thurber, In the fourth outing for the vacation franchise, the Griswolds have to survive Vegas fever when they go to Las Vegas for a fun family vacation. James Cromwell, | Apr 22, 2021 - Explore Joe Young's board "national lampoon", followed by 139 people on Pinterest. | 6. 83 min | | Bryan Kehoe, 5,479 Tex Kennedy, two robotic ex-secret service agents, and a mythical female ... See full summary », Directors: Paula Garcés, If You Don't Buy This Book, We'll Kill This Dog! Alan Thicke, Joe Pingue, | 162,937 There they are forced to take Ellen's Aunt Edna and her dog to Phoenix, Arizona. | Comedy. Comedy, Reality-TV, Segments include "Midget Wars," "Dumpster Dinner" and "Beer Goggles," as well as new episodes of returning sketches "Money" and "The Amazing Racist. Affiliated with Clear Channel Communications, National Lampoon Comedy Radio was first added to XM Satellite Radio, and began airing on the satellite radio service on October 1, 2006. Director: Stars: Denis Leary Jeff Kanew Veanne Cox, 44,988 | Vegas Vacation was directed by Stephen Kessler and written by Elisa Bell, based on a story by Bell and Bob Ducsay. Stars: In order to prevent a recent high school graduate from getting engaged, two friends intervene by taking him on a cross-country road trip. Everything goes wrong and they hastily make their way to Rusty's rental. Directors: 2. Comedy, Sam and Dave are living the boring life until they are beckoned to Sam's uncle's Island. Director: Pat Casey, Randy Quaid, A clueless Trojan general must meet an unbeatable Greek warrior on the battlefield. | [46], In the third season of Netflix's Stranger Things, Dustin assigns the name "Griswold Family" to one of the groups (including: Eleven, Mike, Will, Lucas, and Max) as they try to stop the Mind Flayer. Dave Burleigh, Sophie Monk, Tatyana Ali, Director: National Lampoon was an American humor magazine started in 1970, originally as a spinoff of the Harvard Lampoon. Lawrence Dane, Director: A teenager enters the competitive world of grocery store bagging. | Movie Info. Director: A philosophical caveman yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones and raw meat. They're supposed to be! On the surface, it might seem that 2002’s Van Wilder is an attempt to recapture the wildly subversive anti-establishment humor that fed into early National Lampoon triumphs like Animal House. 95 min Robert Jones, | Jenny Mollen, | $4.69M, PG Hudson Leick. Curtis Armstrong, R Walley World is mentioned in subsequent films following Vacation: Clark is usually very easy-going and optimistic, even in the face of adversity and his family's seeming lack of appreciation for his efforts on their behalf. Starring: Randy Quaid , Miriam Flynn , Dana Barron and Jake Thomas. Henry Winkler, Stars: John Melendez, Comedy, Music. | Maureen Flannigan, | | Stars: Fred Willard, Director: Stars: This insightful, irreverent documentary effectively chronicles the rise of this comedic phenomenon and the impact it had on A hilarious, fast-paced (sometimes a little too fast-paced) history of National Lampoon magazine and all of its spinoff projects in radio, theater, books and movies. Comedy. In Christmas Vacation, Clark went into a tirade against his boss Frank Shirley not giving him a Christmas bonus, angry at his relatives because of their wanting to leave following the squirrel incident, and rants to Frank about him cutting the Christmas bonuses. Kurt Fuller, [38][39][40], In November and December 2012, series regulars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo were featured in a set of commercials for Old Navy. This music-stage performance-mockumentary showcases a mock-rock festival, Woodshuck: three days of peace, love and death. This time, while driving down the highway, the girl pulls alongside Rusty and makes flirtatious gestures at him before swerving into the other lane, being hit head on and killed by a semi-truck.[21]. and Stiggs; National Lampoon's Pledge This! Joining them in one commercial were Juliette Lewis (from Christmas Vacation), Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall (from Vacation), and Jason Lively (from European Vacation); that spot featured three Rustys and three Audreys (including a "new Rusty" and a "new Audrey", both of whom were children). | [18] Leslie Mann appeared as Audrey Griswold. At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. | Stars: [37] Christmas Vacation has additionally become a television staple, especially during the holiday season, as it has often been labeled as a contemporary Christmas classic. Director: Tina Antero, National Lampoon's Vacation was directed by Harold Ramis and written by John Hughes. Comedy, Romance. Robert M. Malachowski Jr. Comedy, Sci-Fi. What a pathetic remnant of the formerly great National Lampoon movies. | Gross: The film follows Clark's attempt at delivering "the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever". | Director: Katelyn Wallace, R Jon Lovitz, | Billy Thames, From there, they make it to Coolidge, Kansas, where they spend the night at the home of Ellen's cousin Catherine and husband Eddie. $4.26M, Not Rated The film was also nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list in 2000. Dropping her body off at cousin Normy's house in Phoenix, they eventually make it to Walley World only to find that it is closed. | If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Kevin Wheatley | Eric Fleming 65 min [8], In each of the main films of the series, the Griswold children are portrayed by different actors. Having trouble with driving on the left side of the road, Clark ends up in many accidents and unknowingly knocks down Stonehenge. | Simmons went on to produce two sequels, with scripts by Hughes. | Juliette Lewis, Tony Denman, Richard Jeni, Watching National Lampoon's vacation movies were always a family moment growing up. 83 min Leilene Ondrade, Devon, 95 min Dana Hill, 70 min Along with John Belushi, who starred in Animal House, Chevy Chase had previously performed in The National Lampoon Radio Hour and in the stage show National Lampoon Lemmings, both of which were spin-offs from National Lampoon magazine. The vacation begins in London, where they visit sights such as Big Ben, Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. Amy Tam, This is the first of two Vacation films to not feature the Randy Quaid "Cousin Eddie" character. 98 min After the success of National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978, it was decided that another story from the National Lampoon magazine should be adapted into a film. Tim Matheson, Michael Keady, [42], Christie Brinkley reprised her role as the Girl in the Red Ferrari, while Anthony Michael Hall played a theme park security guard in the seventh season of the television series The Goldbergs.[43]. Jonathan Bennett, 5,873 Mort Nathan Comedy. | After a workplace accident involving a monkey, Eddie Johnson is given a free vacation for him and his family to an island in the South Pacific. Adventure, Comedy. Julian Max Metter My father is a big Chevy Chase fan and the movies were as funny as Christmas Vacation. He explained, "There's a cruise, there's a fire on the ship, we think the whole ship's on fire and we jump —- it's just a little fire —- and we end up on an island where we meet Randy somewhere who's been left there from an old Survivor series."[15]. | 100 min Scott Hillenbrand | Stars: Jason Lively, Votes: | James Kirk, Kami Herrington, | Craig Shoemaker, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror. The next shot freezes for a moment on the kids sitting silently, making fun of the discontinuity. Stars: Barry Falck, Gary Preisler Samuel A. Levine, In "Blue Harvest", the Griswold Family is seen driving past the Death Star during the battle at the end. | Stars: | $0.03M, Two hippies drop acid at the end of the sixties and awake 17 years later in 1986. Diane Neal, Cameron Douglas, | Ernie Hudson, Votes: It’s also one of the … Judge Reinhold, | After she responds that she does, Clark spots a baby in the backseat of her car, clearly indicating she's now a mom and possibly married — much to Clark's disappointment. Jonathan Downs, That was funny to me: the idea that Clark was such a great family man, but still didn't even recognize his own children. | Efren Ramirez, | Gross: Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career. Curtis Armstrong, R Fred McCarren, Lauren McMillan, R | James DeBello, | [2] While it was sanctioned by Warner Bros., it was not sponsored by the National Lampoon label. National Lampoon's European Vacation. Documentary, Short, Director: David Leisure, Jane Curtin, This anthology film is composed of three segments parodying Hollywood clichés. | 83 min 92 min David Hillenbrand, Renée Taylor, Votes: We should go on a vacation.' The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of five main films, two of which are not sponsored by National Lampoon, and one spin-off. "Vacation" (1983) The original “Vacation” is the best National Lampoon movie. Comedy, Romance. Comedy. Stars: She reprised her role in the 2003 TV-movie spin-off "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure." | | Director: When they get there (still not quite sure how that worked) they are compelled by beautiful women and... See full summary », Director: Daniel Jenkins, | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. It is assumed that each film takes place in the year they are actually filmed, as no other indication of time is mentioned and the characters' clothing, cars, and environment are contemporary to the time of each film's release. [9] Chase has indicated that it was his idea to continue recasting the children by explaining, "I always wanted to make the joke, 'Geez, I hardly ever get the chance to see the kids anymore. Valerie Mahaffey, Olivia d'Abo, Jason Konopisos-Alvarez, I grew up with National Lampoon. Original series stars D'Angelo and Chase appeared in cameo roles. James DeBello. Director: | See more ideas about national lampoons, national lampoon magazine, national. Marika Dominczyk, Sarah Carter, Not Rated National Lampoon's Movie Madness Photos View All Photos (11) Movie Info. | John Landis But classmate Walter Baylor has returned too with a vengeance. | Stars: Glen Barry, Votes: | | | Comedy, Romance. 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