The National Lampoon's Christmas Vacations ranks high in my favourite movies. I watch it every 25 December evening. It stars Chevy "Combover" Chase and other actors belonging to the Saturday Night Live show, such as Randy Quaid.
Let's start with the cartoon opening titles:
In this film, Clark Griswold is the head of a small family. He wants to celebrate Christmas with his whole family. First they have to go and cut a tree in the forest… That was quite an adventure, but it's nothing next to what happens after that…
Clark also attached 250 strands of lights to his roof…
… but it didn't work… But wait!
The attic scene:
The saucer sledge scene:
The dinner scene:
Towards the end of the film, Clark is really pissed off (due to the various disasters that happened in his house [including the burning of his Christmas tree and the electrocution of a cat]), but he was mostly frustrated because he hadn't received his bonus money, until…
I hope you enjoyed these fragments and that you might want to watch the whole film.
The New Yorker cartoons
6 years ago
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