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National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion

National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion

List Price: $19.98
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Laugh A Minute...Priceless!!!
Review: Before you ask the question, the answer is "yes". I
do spend a good portion of my free time watching
movies...and the one I just finished watching was a
side-splitter.

Any "National Lampoon" fans in the crowd? If you
enjoyed NL's "Vacation", "Christmas Vacation",
"European Vacation" and "Vegas Vacation", you will
love "National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion". If you are
a Baby Boomer (like me) you will warm up to this film
quicker than a frog on a lily pad. Then again, frog
butts are mighty cold.

The scripting, casting and editing is seamless...even
though I'm sure this was a cable TV product due to the
pauses (where commercials could be inserted).

My dear friend Darlene would love it. The lead
characters remind me so much of our long lost
friends...Mickey and Kitty. That's between Darlene
and I and I will not venture further.

Bottom line, this is a story of a big city family
transplanted into the backwoods for a "real" family
Thanksgiving. Coming out of the city shell and into
the country hell is handled so well I could not stop
laughing. What an enjoyable comedy. Mature audiences
(that means young adults, old adults and baby boomer
and bloomers) will cuddle up to a piece of life that
is often forgotten...overlooked...taken advantage of.


Here's a piece of the script. I just had to write it
down:

"I've been through every kind of weather and stormy
seas;
Now I do just what I want when I please.
I'm only getting better like a vintage wine;
And there's still a lot of livin' in this body of
mine."

In the National Lampoon genre', this one gets a solid
10. Wanna have a good laugh? Don't miss it...can you
hear me Darlene?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE ! ! ! !
Review: Do not watch this one. A complete waste of time. Watch DUPLEX instead.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Should be 6 stars!
Review: The best "Vacation" movie yet! Judge Reinhold does an excellent job in the role previously portrayed by Chevy Chase. A different cast but with the same laughs as the previous National Lampoon movies. Guaranteed to keep you in stitches. Buy this DVD and add to your Holiday collection.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: OH MY THIS IS BAD!
Review: This was originally a made for TV movie called National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Reunion". I guess they've changed the name to capitalize on the upcoming holiday season or perhaps to fool people who were unfortunate enough to have seen this on TV.

It had a pretty decent cast with Judge Reinhold, Bryan Cranston, and Penelope Ann Miller, but it was a putrid as they come and an insult to the legacy of other Lampoon movies like Vacation and Christmas Vacation.

Honestly I don't know what was worse, this movie or the ultra-horrible Christmas Vacation 2, also a made for TV flick.

All Mitch Snider (Reinhold)wants for his family is a traditional holiday feast with the relatives. The problem is that he doesn't have any. That is until he gets an invitation in the mail from his long-lost cousin Woodrow (Cranston). And that's about the size of it.

The film's struggle to make people laugh falls flat on its face. The characters are not real, the actor's are not having any fun, and the director didn't know what to do with the material. Nothing in this film made you care about it. None of the characters were interesting, none of the situations are even close to reality and one knows that careers are in trouble when such garbage hits the screen.

Just bad and unfully all the way around and a waste of talent.




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