National Lampoon's European Vacation features that All American family the
Griswolds who have won themselves a European vacation. Not quite as lavish
as what I got when I went to London a few years earlier, but then again I didn't
win my trip on a game show called Pig In The Poke.
Chevy Chase is back again as Dwight Griswold not exactly father of the year and not the guy I would send as a typical American. He means well, but cultural nuances just aren't his thing. Mrs. Griswold becomes a porn star when hubby leaves a video camera on and it records Chase and D'Angeo getting down and dirty and the video is stolen. Doesn't put her in a good frame of mind for the rest of the trip. By the way the sequence of how the camera is stolen is hilarious.
Son Jason Lively wants to meet European girls and his style is cramped by dad's incessant sight seeing. And daughter Dana Hill just pines away for new boyfriend William Zabka and worries whether he's doing the same.
Other funny sequences are with a French poodle on the Eiffel Tower and a whole long sequence of the family at a reunion in Germany with Chase's relations. They're not likely to be invited back.
John Astin and Eric Idle make a couple of memorable short bits. European Vacation is good fun.
For the entire family.
Chevy Chase is back again as Dwight Griswold not exactly father of the year and not the guy I would send as a typical American. He means well, but cultural nuances just aren't his thing. Mrs. Griswold becomes a porn star when hubby leaves a video camera on and it records Chase and D'Angeo getting down and dirty and the video is stolen. Doesn't put her in a good frame of mind for the rest of the trip. By the way the sequence of how the camera is stolen is hilarious.
Son Jason Lively wants to meet European girls and his style is cramped by dad's incessant sight seeing. And daughter Dana Hill just pines away for new boyfriend William Zabka and worries whether he's doing the same.
Other funny sequences are with a French poodle on the Eiffel Tower and a whole long sequence of the family at a reunion in Germany with Chase's relations. They're not likely to be invited back.
John Astin and Eric Idle make a couple of memorable short bits. European Vacation is good fun.
For the entire family.