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List Price: $28.99 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 180
Released: December 5, 2006 |
| Our Price: $17.99 |
| Used Price: $16.49 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray |
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Editorial Review:
Make merry as Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid and an ensemble of comedy favorites strive to gift-wrap the "perfect Christmas" for the Griswold family. The most successful of the three vacations. Year: 1989 Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid,
Description of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation [Blu-ray]:
You know exactly what you're getting in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: another goofball, slapstick comedy of chaos and catastrophe with Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and family. This time, there's no traveling involved: Clark and Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) prepare for a nice Christmas with the kids (played by none other than Juliette Lewis and Roseanne star Johnny Galecki), when their home is invaded by backwoods cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) and his brood, along with assorted other crazy and/or stuffy relatives. Complications, of course, are inevitable. The film is preceded by National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) and followed by National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997). Directed by Jeremiah Chechik, who went on to do Benny & Joon and the Sharon Stone remake of Diabolique. --Jim Emerson
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Best Christmas Movie Ever 
2009-12-21 - I love this movie. It isn't secular Christmas until I've seen it each year. (I know it isn't the 'reason for the season.' That's the "other Christmas".) Every time I see it my appreciation grows deeper and I see it afresh. "My favorite part" changes every year!
Why no HD audio? 
2009-12-21 - A 5 star comedy to be sure. But when a studio takes a classic and repackages it at higher cost, I except more. Better video they did, but the audio is simple 2 channel. Not even Dolby Digital 5.1.
5 Star movie, 1 Star video.
2009-12-21 - This is the exact same transfer as the 2006 Blu-ray of this movie. Google reviews of it and you will see it is terrible. Warner needs to put some cleanup time into this transfer and less time adding junk like instant snow and mini-mugs. WE want the BEST video and audio POSSIBLE! My favorite Christmas movie gets shafted once again...
The funniest Holiday movie ever!!!
2009-12-21 - This is one of the funniest Holiday movies ever. I can watch it again and again and never get tired of it. It is a classic.
Video quality for this older movie? Don't get to excited. 
2009-12-20 - I love this movie. I've had the regular DVD, Extended DVD, and now the Blu-Ray version. I want to say that the Blu-ray version is only a little bit better than the older copies but, . . . don't expect this older film to have a wonderful "Blu-ray look" like the film Batman and other new films coming out these days. In some cases, I find myself distracted and noticing the graininess, in their faces mostly. I'm glad I bought it anyway, of course. If you love this movie, I say buy it!
Only one other thing that could have made it all better: Next time get Chevy Chase to do the DVD Commentary.
