You should have watched this one first, because this was the first Vacation movie. This is the original(the classic), but all of the Vacation movies are actually pretty good.
The director wanted to make the movie real so instead of flying to the different location he made the whole cast and crew actually do the whole movie as a real road trip.
The Wally World scenes were filmed at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. But it was very clearly supposed to be a stand-in for Disney Land. The original story by John Hughes was about his family taking a car trip from Illinois where he grew up to go to Disney Land in Anaheim, CA. and ((spoiler alert for the magazine story)) .... in the original magazine story, John's dad ends up going nuts, buying a Star Map to figure out where Walt Disney lived, and shooting him in the leg... he winds up in jail and the rest of the family flies home.
Wally World is Six Flags Magic Mountain. It used to be used in all the amusement park shows and movies. Colossus, the big white wooden coaster, used to be pretty iconic.
*_National Lampoons Vacation FULL SAGA_* ★ - National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) ★ - National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) ★ - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) ★ - *Vegas Vacation* (1997) ★ - *Vacation* (2015) My fav is the original *National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)* but also really enjoy *Vegas Vacation (1997)* (Best Sequel) and *Vacation (2015)* (Great Ending of the Saga)
wow... someone liked Vegas Vacation and the Vacation reboot. Didn't know that existed. :-D Did you also love Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure? but... that's cool... every movie deserves to find its audience.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 Yeah, I love Vegas vacations just because cousin Eddie is on it. Also the Vacation reboot is not my favourite, but I really love the little Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo cameo, I think it's a good ending to this whole saga (not the best but not the worst either) I never watch Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure, I think I need to. do you recommend it?
@@peperino25i too enjoyed vegas, and don't understand why it gets so much hate. I don't think ANYONE recommends the Eddie spinoff. I think there were somehow 2 of them.
Fun fact, originally this movie had a vastly different ending where they never made it into the park, instead they went to kidnap the owner at his house and that was basically it apparently. It didn't go over well in test viewings so thankfully they changed it and made it better.
Fun fact: The scene of the Griswold's driving out of Chicago is used in the intro for one of my favorite all-time TV shows Married with Children. The green station wagon can be clearly spotted during the show intro. What a crossover that would have been if Clark Griswold and Al Bundy crossed paths on a family vacation.
Fun Fact: Harold Ramis, who played Igon in Ghostbusters, did the voice for Marty The Moose and also had an offscreen voice cameo (27:10) as one of the officers "do you want me to take them downtown and book 'em?)
Since Wally World is trying to play off Disney World, they got an actor to play the equivalent of a Mr. Disney. Walt was the first, but Roy took over after him, so having a Roy makes some sense. The same actor who played Roy Wally also appeared in Home Alone 2 as the shop owner.
Congrats on checking Alaska off your travel map. I'm a former Iowa boy (Yarmouth, Sperry, Danville, West Burlington) and have now lived in Alaska 27 years. I love your channel and hope you continue to enjoy more of my favorite older movies.
Great video, as always James. You mentioned how the kids aren't the same. That's the running gag throughout the franchise...the kids are not only played by different actors, but they're always a different age range too.
Aunt Edna was famous comedian Imogene Coca. Anthony Michael Hall was the boy, he was in Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, Weird Science, and other films.
Fun Facts As far as google is concerned...The name, “Walley World,” would seem to be a takeoff on Walt Disney World (although it replaces a mouse with a moose as its mascot). But the Disney connection only goes so far...Is "Walley World a real place" according to google Yes, it is! Perhaps for legal reasons the spelling has been changed but the crux of it is true. Wally World is real! Wally World is a small part of a large amusement park complex in Ontario, Canada known as East Park of London.
7:13 one of the movie's funniest ironies is that Clark goes hundreds of miles out of the way to visit attractions that no one else is interested in, while he flatly says "no" to the one attraction that at least Rusty is interested in, and is in sight.
The theme park used was Magic Mountain in CA and the running scene was at the old Hollywood Race track than cut back to Magic when they reached the moose. The rollercoaster they were handcuffed at was called Revolution.
I just watched a LandumC goes there video about Christie Brinkley's part in this movie. Apparently John Hughes wrote the original story from the perspective of Rusty the teenage son. So Christie's character was intended to be someone the son was attracted to, but when Warner Bro's bought the story & rewrote the script, they decided to change it to focus on the dad's view, which ended up causing them to change the purpose of the Christie Brinkley character from teen son love inerest, to the dad. Supposedly Hughes didn't appreciate his work being changed and is part of why he started making his own movies. Also instead of the Wally World Rides movie ending, apparently the original was a home invasion of Wally's home, with Clark shooting him the leg & making Wally dance, but that movie change seems a good choice.
Maybe that was Rusty's Pac Man game he brought with him. When I was 7 years old we went for a month long vacation to Italy. Just before my parents bought me 3 of those table top games to take with me, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, and Frogger. When we visited relatives with kids my age my parents asked me to leave two of those games behind, I wasn't happy about it but they talked me into it. One of their uncles had a candy shop and sent me home with a huge assortmemt of Italian candy so it was, literally, a sweet trade. 😊
@@scipioafricanus5871😂😂😂 I was going to keep Donkey Kong, that was my favorite. I was having trouble with Frogger, I had never played it anywhere else like in an arcade or on an Atari, so on that game once I got past the cars I also kept trying to dodge the logs in the water and kept dying, I didn't know what I was doing wrong. _Just_ before we left I figured out I was supposed to ride the logs and the game got really fun. So I decided to keep Frogger. We've got home movies of the Thanksgiving that was about a month after we got home. In the background all through the video you hear the Frogger theme playing in high pitched electronic sound.
This is 6 years earlier. Clark's boss in Christmas Vacation in this one is the guy who rents out tents and sends out a mailer, and in real life is Bill Murray's brother. The "marshal" in Dodge City was played by Richard Dreyfuss' brother. Son Rusty was later in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles as leader of the school geeks and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands as a bad-guy bullying football player. Every film in the franchise recasts the kids, which is a running joke that's even addressed in Vegas Vacation (1997), when Clark & Ellen celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, which means they married in 1982, the year this came out - and the kids in that movie are the same age they are in this one. The blonde girl cousin later became a big TV star, as supporting cast on Ally McBeal (starring Harrison Ford's wife as the title character) and a lead along with Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock. Oh! And Aunt Edna is a great from the earliest days of live television, a big comedy star of the '50s, known to later audiences for appearances on Bewitched.
@@AwesomeUSMovies He was Brian Johnson (the Brain) who wrote the essay for everyone. The one who had the flare gun to school because he was failing shop class.
6:47 The license plate actually slipped out of Chevy’s hands, that wasn’t supposed to happen and it was quite lucky it didn’t hit that lady in the neck or something, but everyone played it off cool 😎
0:45 There's actully 4 "Vacation" movies, James "Christmas Vacation" was the 3rd moviein the franchise The other 2 are "European Vacation" which is the 2nd movie, and the 4th is "Vegas Vacation" Btw: the kids, Rusty and Audrey, are played by different actors in each of the different movies
1. FACT: They don't crush cars right away. They will resell them and then sell the parts. 2. My favorite part is when the ALL fall asleep in the car while it's still rolling. 🤣 3. There's no way he would have gotten a parking place right in front of the "Long Branch" saloon. 4. "Bop your baloney"="Spank your monkey"🤣🤣 5. The guy at the campground is Brian Doyle-Murry (Bill Murry's Brother) and he played Clark's boss in "Christmas Vacation". 6. He's crazy. I'd take Beverly DeAngelo 😍😋over Christy Brinkley any day. 7. Who didn't love John Candy? 8. Mr. Wally/Eddie Bracken played the toy store owner in "Home Alone II". Do the rest of the Vacation movies. Especially Christmas Vacation.
For me "Christmas Vacation" is the best of the bunch because I'm a complete sucker for Christmas movies and it's worth watching every single year. The other movies are ones I can go years without re-watching, but if I had to choose a favorite besides the holiday one then it is 100% "European Vacation". I think the humor is better than this one. Something about "There's Big Ben. There's Parliament" over and over until the sun goes down is stupidly entertaining me to me.
Interesting fun fact: the clerk from Kamp Komfort, who rented the two tents to the family, was played by Brian Doyle Murray, Bill Murray's brother, who played Clark's cheap boss from the Christmas Vacation film!
Throughout the vacation series with Chevy Chase from this first movie to Christmas movie they had to keep changing the actors due to them growing older when they were making these movies No spoilers that’s the truth 💯 I enjoy it either way hope we can see more of you reacting to the rest of the series sir
If I remember correctly, the kids got re-cast in every film, and even had dialogue in the other movies to play up the joke, like "I almost didn't recognize you" or something similar.
Anthony Michael Hall had been cast as Gary in _Weird Science,_ neither production would reschedule, so he had to decline reprising the role of Rusty. The roles of both kids ended up being recast, and it became kind of a tradition as a joke.
We would leave Chesapeake, VA drive to Logan Iowa 1300 miles stay at the in-laws a couple days. Then drive from there to Kalispell MT another 1300 miles. Stay with my family for a week or so then reverse the trip. 30 day vacation and back to Chesapeake, VA. I couldn’t do that trip today.
Always a great reaction. I'm from St Louis MO, very good description of the pods in the Gateway Arch "eggs", not for the person who's claustrophobic, but a great Monument.
Some people sarcastically call Walmart... Wally World after this movie. Usually if they don''t want to write or say the real name, or just to be funny, which it is.
@@AwesomeUSMovies The running joke is that the Vacation movie franchise is slightly infamous for changing the kids’ actors with each film. I just thought it was funny when you said that. Loved the reaction; what a classic!
European Vacation is between the first and Christmas. It's not everyone's fave, but I really enjoy it. Vegas Vactation is the fourth, and the fifth is just Vacation (2015). "This is not the same kid!" The running joke that the kids are different in every movie is a little funnier if you watch the movies in order.
In the original "National Lampoon's Vacation" movie from 1983, the Griswold family travels across the country to get to the fictional amusement park "Walley World." The actual amusement park used to depict "Walley World" was Six Flags Magic Mountain, located in Valencia, California. The park's iconic roller coaster, Revolution, was featured as the "Screemy Meemy" in the film. Revolution is known for being the first modern roller coaster to feature a full vertical loop. In the film, characters Clark Griswold, played by Chevy Chase, and John Candy's character, security guard Russ Lasky, are seen riding this roller coaster.
Chevy Chase HATES roller coasters, that's why they put him behind John Candy. If you watch closely, you can see his face and you can tell he's NOT enjoying it. 😂
I'm pretty sure Wally World is super to be Disney. Marty Moose sounds a lot like Mickey Mouse, the theme song sounds very similar, And the owner even kinda looks like Walt Disney, in fact his name is Roy, same as Walt's brother.
My last 2 week vacation was to Hawaii, however I cheated because my uncle is a CO on an aircraft carrier that is sometimes stationed in Pearl and his house with my aunt is on base.
@@AwesomeUSMovies I've been a carny someone has to push the start button and release the safety bars, some rides auto release but problem not when this was made
I actually had a similar experience to this while going to Sea World in San Antonio. We went down from N. Texas and planned to hit the park on the day AFTER labor day. Much to our surprise it was the first year ever they closed down after Labor day so we drove up to a complete ghost town just like in the movie. Luckily our little girl had gone to sleep so we punted and went to the Zoo so she could see some animals!!!!
30 hours just over 2,000 miles from Chicago to LA. And the park is in Valencia, CA and is called Six Flags Magic Mountain. The Rollercoaster is named Revolution, the first looping coaster I believe.
Oh that was Six Flags Magic Mountain they re did for that !! I didn’t know that that’s 45 minute drive from where I’m at Been there many times Saw Johnny Cash live there
Yeah, Walley World was written to be Disneyland, but since they're open year-round, the gag with John Candy wouldn't have worked, so they made it a fictional park instead. This movie is also responsible for Wal-Mart being nicknamed WallyWorld.
24:55 - The other security guard is portrayed by the also-late Frank McRae (Rocky 2 / 1941 / 48. Hrs. + Another 48 Hrs. / Red Dawn / *Batteries Not Included / Licence to Kill / The Wizard / Loaded Weapon 1 / Last Action Hero / Lightning Jack).
Saw this movie when I was a teen. To this day I'm a nervous wreck on vacations crom the time we leave til we get back home, wondering when something's going to go wrong, but in between, I force myself and everyone els to have fun.😂
This is the family vacation, from hell. There was an alternative ending which was filmed but cut from the movie, where Clark and his family break into Roy Wally's house and hold him and his family hostage. When the neighbors see what's going on, they call tge police while Clark forces Wally to sing and dance for them. A SWAT team breaks in, saving Wally while Clark and his family get arrested. Wally bails them out the next day, but tells the Griswolds that they have been banned from his theme park and they must never return to California ever again. Clark agrees with him and the family flies back to Chicago.
It's probably Six Flags in Santa Clarita, CA. There is also Knott's Berry Farm near by, another big amusement park. Back then, Walmart wasn't nearly wide spread and most people didn't associate Wally World with it.
4:46 "Not the house we had in Christmas Vacation" That was the third movie in the series, this is the first movie. Also, the running gag is that the children, same characters, but are played by different actors in every movie
You are correct, however the rhyme park inside shots were done inside Magic Mountain in CA, and where they were handcuffed is the entrance to the ride Evolution. The running up toy the theme park was shot at the old Hollywood race track, than cut back to magic mountain where they hit Marty Moose.
4:58 - humm... Every year; because I am not American and in almost any other country two weeks are the absolute minimum vacation time employers have to give employees by law (My employer gives THREE weeks vacations to new hires).
If you enjoyed this reaction you should check out my National Lampoons Christmas Vacation reaction: ruclips.net/video/PdqqamHhV8s/видео.html
Have you watched "Nothing but Trouble" Movie yet? COOL REACTIONS! FARMING IS COOL!
You should have watched this one first, because this was the first Vacation movie. This is the original(the classic), but all of the Vacation movies are actually pretty good.
I love Vacation
The director wanted to make the movie real so instead of flying to the different location he made the whole cast and crew actually do the whole movie as a real road trip.
That's pretty cool. Sounds like a fun time.
The Wally World scenes were filmed at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. But it was very clearly supposed to be a stand-in for Disney Land. The original story by John Hughes was about his family taking a car trip from Illinois where he grew up to go to Disney Land in Anaheim, CA. and ((spoiler alert for the magazine story)) .... in the original magazine story, John's dad ends up going nuts, buying a Star Map to figure out where Walt Disney lived, and shooting him in the leg... he winds up in jail and the rest of the family flies home.
Wally World is Six Flags Magic Mountain. It used to be used in all the amusement park shows and movies. Colossus, the big white wooden coaster, used to be pretty iconic.
Vegas Vacation is GREAT too. Make sure you get that one as well
“Definitely not in Kansas anymore.”
If you haven’t seen Wizard of Oz before, that quote is more amazing than I thought lol
*_National Lampoons Vacation FULL SAGA_*
★ - National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
★ - National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
★ - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
★ - *Vegas Vacation* (1997)
★ - *Vacation* (2015)
My fav is the original *National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)*
but also really enjoy *Vegas Vacation (1997)* (Best Sequel) and *Vacation (2015)* (Great Ending of the Saga)
wow... someone liked Vegas Vacation and the Vacation reboot. Didn't know that existed. :-D Did you also love Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure?
but... that's cool... every movie deserves to find its audience.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 Yeah, I love Vegas vacations just because cousin Eddie is on it.
Also the Vacation reboot is not my favourite, but I really love the little Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo cameo, I think it's a good ending to this whole saga (not the best but not the worst either)
I never watch Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure, I think I need to.
do you recommend it?
@@peperino25i too enjoyed vegas, and don't understand why it gets so much hate.
I don't think ANYONE recommends the Eddie spinoff. I think there were somehow 2 of them.
I see "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure" is not canon, it is mere apocrypha.
@@nooneofconsequence1251Vegas vacation is my #2 in the series actually lol definitely underrated imo
Fun fact, originally this movie had a vastly different ending where they never made it into the park, instead they went to kidnap the owner at his house and that was basically it apparently. It didn't go over well in test viewings so thankfully they changed it and made it better.
Fun fact: The scene of the Griswold's driving out of Chicago is used in the intro for one of my favorite all-time TV shows Married with Children. The green station wagon can be clearly spotted during the show intro. What a crossover that would have been if Clark Griswold and Al Bundy crossed paths on a family vacation.
This is back when the recipe for 80's movie magic was at it highest. Watch Legend, Willow, Aliens, Tron, Dune, Ghostbusters, Mad Max... etc.
Fun Fact: Harold Ramis, who played Igon in Ghostbusters, did the voice for Marty The Moose and also had an offscreen voice cameo (27:10) as one of the officers "do you want me to take them downtown and book 'em?)
Since Wally World is trying to play off Disney World, they got an actor to play the equivalent of a Mr. Disney. Walt was the first, but Roy took over after him, so having a Roy makes some sense. The same actor who played Roy Wally also appeared in Home Alone 2 as the shop owner.
Congrats on checking Alaska off your travel map. I'm a former Iowa boy (Yarmouth, Sperry, Danville, West Burlington) and have now lived in Alaska 27 years. I love your channel and hope you continue to enjoy more of my favorite older movies.
How Awesome!! It's a beautiful state enjoy
Great video, as always James. You mentioned how the kids aren't the same. That's the running gag throughout the franchise...the kids are not only played by different actors, but they're always a different age range too.
That is weird for a franchise right?
I real life the mom is 15 years older than the daughter. So Clark knocked her up when she was like 14.
Aunt Edna was famous comedian Imogene Coca. Anthony Michael Hall was the boy, he was in Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, Weird Science, and other films.
Awe 💕 this was my dad's favorite movie. I bet I've seen it 20 times 😆 it never gets old.
It was great
@@AwesomeUSMoviesI'm not sure how much into music your are, James
But the theme song, " Holiday Road" was performed by Lindsey Buckingham
Fun Facts
As far as google is concerned...The name, “Walley World,” would seem to be a takeoff on Walt Disney World (although it replaces a mouse with a moose as its mascot). But the Disney connection only goes so far...Is "Walley World a real place" according to google Yes, it is!
Perhaps for legal reasons the spelling has been changed but the crux of it is true. Wally World is real! Wally World is a small part of a large amusement park complex in Ontario, Canada known as East Park of London.
so glad someone finally realized they aren't washing the dishes at the beginning lol
Am I the only one?
@@AwesomeUSMovies lol yes...at least from reactions i have seen. it's such a funny scene
7:13 one of the movie's funniest ironies is that Clark goes hundreds of miles out of the way to visit attractions that no one else is interested in, while he flatly says "no" to the one attraction that at least Rusty is interested in, and is in sight.
I just realized after so long the Colorado camp owner was the boss in Christmas Vacation. Geeze on me.
The theme park used was Magic Mountain in CA and the running scene was at the old Hollywood Race track than cut back to Magic when they reached the moose. The rollercoaster they were handcuffed at was called Revolution.
I just watched a LandumC goes there video about Christie Brinkley's part in this movie.
Apparently John Hughes wrote the original story from the perspective of Rusty the teenage son.
So Christie's character was intended to be someone the son was attracted to, but when Warner Bro's bought the story & rewrote the script, they decided to change it to focus on the dad's view, which ended up causing them to change the purpose of the Christie Brinkley character from teen son love inerest, to the dad.
Supposedly Hughes didn't appreciate his work being changed and is part of why he started making his own movies. Also instead of the Wally World Rides movie ending, apparently the original was a home invasion of Wally's home, with Clark shooting him the leg & making Wally dance, but that movie change seems a good choice.
John Candy is one of my favs.
Maybe that was Rusty's Pac Man game he brought with him.
When I was 7 years old we went for a month long vacation to Italy. Just before my parents bought me 3 of those table top games to take with me, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, and Frogger.
When we visited relatives with kids my age my parents asked me to leave two of those games behind, I wasn't happy about it but they talked me into it. One of their uncles had a candy shop and sent me home with a huge assortmemt of Italian candy so it was, literally, a sweet trade. 😊
What game did you keep? I NEED to know now I'm invested in the story.
@@scipioafricanus5871😂😂😂
I was going to keep Donkey Kong, that was my favorite.
I was having trouble with Frogger, I had never played it anywhere else like in an arcade or on an Atari, so on that game once I got past the cars I also kept trying to dodge the logs in the water and kept dying, I didn't know what I was doing wrong.
_Just_ before we left I figured out I was supposed to ride the logs and the game got really fun. So I decided to keep Frogger.
We've got home movies of the Thanksgiving that was about a month after we got home. In the background all through the video you hear the Frogger theme playing in high pitched electronic sound.
I'm not sure I ever owed one of those. We had the game boy.
This is 6 years earlier. Clark's boss in Christmas Vacation in this one is the guy who rents out tents and sends out a mailer, and in real life is Bill Murray's brother. The "marshal" in Dodge City was played by Richard Dreyfuss' brother. Son Rusty was later in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles as leader of the school geeks and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands as a bad-guy bullying football player. Every film in the franchise recasts the kids, which is a running joke that's even addressed in Vegas Vacation (1997), when Clark & Ellen celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, which means they married in 1982, the year this came out - and the kids in that movie are the same age they are in this one. The blonde girl cousin later became a big TV star, as supporting cast on Ally McBeal (starring Harrison Ford's wife as the title character) and a lead along with Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock. Oh! And Aunt Edna is a great from the earliest days of live television, a big comedy star of the '50s, known to later audiences for appearances on Bewitched.
Been years since I’ve seen this! I love Chevy Chase especially old SNL episodes! ☀️
Love this movie, I was born in 74 and was a little younger than the kids in the movie but brings back so many memories of my own family.
Road trip fun
Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) also starred in the John Hughes films "The Breakfast Club", "16 Candles", and "Weird Science"
I reacted to the breakfast club who was he?
@@AwesomeUSMovies He was Brian Johnson (the Brain) who wrote the essay for everyone. The one who had the flare gun to school because he was failing shop class.
The actress that played Aunt Edna, Imogene Coca, was a comedy legend. She was on one of the first blockbuster TV shows in the 50's, Your Show of Shows
Yeah and apparently she had a stroke during filming and also had a fear of travel, lol.
Show also played in early sitcom called it’s about time she played a caveman I’m sorry cavewoman
@@ShuffleUpandDeal32 Well you don't put an old lady on the roof of your car. Don't ask me what happened to the dog.
@@scipioafricanus5871 Pretty sure that was after
“And Moab, he laideth down behind the land of the Canaanites” 😂
Best prayer.
6:47 The license plate actually slipped out of Chevy’s hands, that wasn’t supposed to happen and it was quite lucky it didn’t hit that lady in the neck or something, but everyone played it off cool 😎
0:45
There's actully 4 "Vacation" movies, James
"Christmas Vacation" was the 3rd moviein the franchise
The other 2 are "European Vacation" which is the 2nd movie, and the 4th is "Vegas Vacation"
Btw: the kids, Rusty and Audrey, are played by different actors in each of the different movies
Lots to watch
There is also a Eddie movie, but it's a Turkey.
Vegas Vacation is good also imo
Stupid car girl was a super model, Christie Brinkley. She was also one time married to Billy Joel. She’s in his Uptown Girl video
I prefer the mom
She also broke up Billy Joel's marriage to his first wife.
1. FACT: They don't crush cars right away. They will resell them and then sell the parts.
2. My favorite part is when the ALL fall asleep in the car while it's still rolling. 🤣
3. There's no way he would have gotten a parking place right in front of the "Long Branch" saloon.
4. "Bop your baloney"="Spank your monkey"🤣🤣
5. The guy at the campground is Brian Doyle-Murry (Bill Murry's Brother) and he played Clark's boss in "Christmas Vacation".
6. He's crazy. I'd take Beverly DeAngelo 😍😋over Christy Brinkley any day.
7. Who didn't love John Candy?
8. Mr. Wally/Eddie Bracken played the toy store owner in "Home Alone II". Do the rest of the Vacation movies. Especially Christmas Vacation.
Love this, thanks
14:15 Mundare, Alberta has the world's largest sausage.
If I was from there, I would tell no one.
That’s awesome!! 50 states in 50 years!! 😎😎
Just one to go
@@AwesomeUSMovies I’m very jealous!! I really want to see more of America! Especially Yellowstone!
It's sort of a running gag in these that the kids get switched out in each movie
“Vegas Vacation “ is the newest one. Worth a watch
For me "Christmas Vacation" is the best of the bunch because I'm a complete sucker for Christmas movies and it's worth watching every single year. The other movies are ones I can go years without re-watching, but if I had to choose a favorite besides the holiday one then it is 100% "European Vacation". I think the humor is better than this one. Something about "There's Big Ben. There's Parliament" over and over until the sun goes down is stupidly entertaining me to me.
Lots to watch
Interesting fun fact: the clerk from Kamp Komfort, who rented the two tents to the family, was played by Brian Doyle Murray, Bill Murray's brother, who played Clark's cheap boss from the Christmas Vacation film!
I've seen this movie a dozen times and knew I recognized him, but could never place it, thank you!
@@robertthomas4633 my pleasure!
Also, isn't that Eugene Levy (Jim's dad in American Pie) as the car salesman at the beginning?
a lot of people are gonna say dont watch European Vacation but ignore them..
a lot of people don't like to read subtitles lmao
It is a six flags magic mountain in Valencia California, 45 minutes north of Los Angeles
This one and the Christmas one are the good ones.
So far it'd agree
Throughout the vacation series with Chevy Chase from this first movie to Christmas movie they had to keep changing the actors due to them growing older when they were making these movies No spoilers that’s the truth 💯 I enjoy it either way hope we can see more of you reacting to the rest of the series sir
I had the biggest crush on Beverly D'Angelo and she's still good looking.
European Vacation is another good one.
Added
Christie Brinkley was so it back then, still looks great too
Brinkley looked real good on Parks and Rec. She's taking great care of herself.
Not like Beverly D'Angelo tho 😍
Mrs. Gergich is timeless
The Ex Mrs Billy Joel
The original supermodel.
If I remember correctly, the kids got re-cast in every film, and even had dialogue in the other movies to play up the joke, like "I almost didn't recognize you" or something similar.
Anthony Michael Hall had been cast as Gary in _Weird Science,_ neither production would reschedule, so he had to decline reprising the role of Rusty. The roles of both kids ended up being recast, and it became kind of a tradition as a joke.
Rusty & Audrey are played by different actors in every single movie, it's a little fun thing they did.
Different ages too
We would leave Chesapeake, VA drive to Logan Iowa 1300 miles stay at the in-laws a couple days. Then drive from there to Kalispell MT another 1300 miles. Stay with my family for a week or so then reverse the trip. 30 day vacation and back to Chesapeake, VA. I couldn’t do that trip today.
Always a great reaction. I'm from St Louis MO, very good description of the pods in the Gateway Arch "eggs", not for the person who's claustrophobic, but a great Monument.
I’m on a quest for fun… once again great reaction James
Some people sarcastically call Walmart... Wally World after this movie.
Usually if they don''t want to write or say the real name, or just to be funny, which it is.
Sure, I've heard that. Thansk for that. Now I can put those two together
“I might recognize the kids”… LOL
Nope, I didn't
@@AwesomeUSMovies The running joke is that the Vacation movie franchise is slightly infamous for changing the kids’ actors with each film. I just thought it was funny when you said that. Loved the reaction; what a classic!
1vacation,2 European vacation,3 Christmas vacation, 4 Vegas vacation, 5 vacation, they never used,the same kids in any of the vacations funny
I've only seen this one and Christmas
Christmas Vacation is actually the 3rd movie that came out in the series. This movie & European Vacation came out first.
European Vacation is between the first and Christmas. It's not everyone's fave, but I really enjoy it. Vegas Vactation is the fourth, and the fifth is just Vacation (2015).
"This is not the same kid!"
The running joke that the kids are different in every movie is a little funnier if you watch the movies in order.
The 5th is actually Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure 🤪
@@pleutron But we don't talk about that.
@@scipioafricanus5871 😂😂
Who told you this was a family movie?
National Lampoon doesn't make family movies.
It just involved a family
Funny
Lock picking kit in the truck!!! Now we know why James hasn't seen many movies. He was in lock up in the Iowa penitentiary. 😉
"Who are you? And how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith." Police Squad (in color)
Doesn't everyone keep a lockpocking kit in the truck? I know I do, but I am a locksmith.
Plenty of time to read books!
There is only 2 movies I ever remember hearing my dad laugh at...Smokey and the bandit and this right here😂😂😂
Which part of Iowa are you from? My mom comes from a family of farmers in Manchester, Iowa.
I live in the DSM area now
After watching this movie when I was younger, I was totally bummed to find out that Walley World didn't actually exist 😄
Wally World I believe is 6 flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California
Wally World does exist… Wal-marts are everywhere 😂
@johne.8250 Yeah I recognize the park.
Check out Vegas vacation
In the original "National Lampoon's Vacation" movie from 1983, the Griswold family travels across the country to get to the fictional amusement park "Walley World." The actual amusement park used to depict "Walley World" was Six Flags Magic Mountain, located in Valencia, California.
The park's iconic roller coaster, Revolution, was featured as the "Screemy Meemy" in the film. Revolution is known for being the first modern roller coaster to feature a full vertical loop. In the film, characters Clark Griswold, played by Chevy Chase, and John Candy's character, security guard Russ Lasky, are seen riding this roller coaster.
Chevy Chase HATES roller coasters, that's why they put him behind John Candy. If you watch closely, you can see his face and you can tell he's NOT enjoying it. 😂
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Never noticed, good shout!
Filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain a little north of Los Angeles.
James! I’ve been waiting for this upload all week! Excellent upload!
I'm pretty sure Wally World is super to be Disney. Marty Moose sounds a lot like Mickey Mouse, the theme song sounds very similar, And the owner even kinda looks like Walt Disney, in fact his name is Roy, same as Walt's brother.
To me, Wally even looks more like Roy than Walt.
It is. Disney wanted way the hell too much to use the name/pictures/etc.
Has anyone ever suggested Tropical thunder😂😂
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if you're in the mood for another classic pirate movie, then Cutthroat Island, starring Geena Davis and Matthew Modine, would be a great pick.
I'll add your request to my list, however, explain to me how you went from national lampoons to pirate movie?
My last 2 week vacation was to Hawaii, however I cheated because my uncle is a CO on an aircraft carrier that is sometimes stationed in Pearl and his house with my aunt is on base.
About $52,000 😂
19:49 so you can break into someone's home and leave a corpse there? 😂😂
You bet but only if they know I'm coming
I usually take a three week vacation twice per year or a two week vacation three times a year
Nice good for you
I always wondered who turns on the rides and unlocks the seat bar
Somebody has to
@@AwesomeUSMovies I've been a carny someone has to push the start button and release the safety bars, some rides auto release but problem not when this was made
I actually had a similar experience to this while going to Sea World in San Antonio. We went down from N. Texas and planned to hit the park on the day AFTER labor day. Much to our surprise it was the first year ever they closed down after Labor day so we drove up to a complete ghost town just like in the movie. Luckily our little girl had gone to sleep so we punted and went to the Zoo so she could see some animals!!!!
I cannot count the number of times I have seen this movie and I don’t think I ever noticed that they took a plane home! 😮 Nice reaction. 🙂
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Wally World is actually 6-flags Magic Mountain, in California. The first big white rollercoaster they are riding is Colossus.
30 hours just over 2,000 miles from Chicago to LA. And the park is in Valencia, CA and is called Six Flags Magic Mountain. The Rollercoaster is named Revolution, the first looping coaster I believe.
And to answer his question, the park it's supposed to be is Disneyland.
Oh that was Six Flags Magic Mountain they re did for that !!
I didn’t know that that’s 45 minute drive from where I’m at
Been there many times
Saw Johnny Cash live there
48hrs, Another 48hrs, Last Action Hero, Loaded Weapon = all same character.
Do Vegas next
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23:17
Yeah, Walley World was written to be Disneyland, but since they're open year-round, the gag with John Candy wouldn't have worked, so they made it a fictional park instead. This movie is also responsible for Wal-Mart being nicknamed WallyWorld.
Absolutely love this movie James one of my fav comedies too watch with my folks so so funny i nearly know it off by heart Great you enjoyed it
24:55 - The other security guard is portrayed by the also-late Frank McRae (Rocky 2 / 1941 / 48. Hrs. + Another 48 Hrs. / Red Dawn / *Batteries Not Included / Licence to Kill / The Wizard / Loaded Weapon 1 / Last Action Hero / Lightning Jack).
My aunt and uncle drove me and my cousin from Connecticut to Orlando in 1978 in a station wagon. This so hits home.
Saw this movie when I was a teen. To this day I'm a nervous wreck on vacations crom the time we leave til we get back home, wondering when something's going to go wrong, but in between, I force myself and everyone els to have fun.😂
This is the family vacation, from hell.
There was an alternative ending which was filmed but cut from the movie, where Clark and his family break into Roy Wally's house and hold him and his family hostage. When the neighbors see what's going on, they call tge police while Clark forces Wally to sing and dance for them. A SWAT team breaks in, saving Wally while Clark and his family get arrested. Wally bails them out the next day, but tells the Griswolds that they have been banned from his theme park and they must never return to California ever again.
Clark agrees with him and the family flies back to Chicago.
It's probably Six Flags in Santa Clarita, CA. There is also Knott's Berry Farm near by, another big amusement park. Back then, Walmart wasn't nearly wide spread and most people didn't associate Wally World with it.
4:46 "Not the house we had in Christmas Vacation" That was the third movie in the series, this is the first movie. Also, the running gag is that the children, same characters, but are played by different actors in every movie
Yes, the theme park used for Wally World was a Six Flags.
This is at Magic Mountain. Yes it's a Six Flags park.
Wallyworld is a fictional spoof of Disneyland.
You are correct, however the rhyme park inside shots were done inside Magic Mountain in CA, and where they were handcuffed is the entrance to the ride Evolution. The running up toy the theme park was shot at the old Hollywood race track, than cut back to magic mountain where they hit Marty Moose.
That was actually like a record jump they did with the car.
Funny
Daddy says im the best at it
So cringe
Oh Superbad is totally family friendly! It's just high school life lol.
Yeah with way too many penis drawings
Rusty played Kevin in the BREAKFAST CLUB
His name in The Breakfast Club was Brian Johnson.
Awesome Movie and Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
Thank you too!
@@AwesomeUSMovies Thanks Buddy 👍👍👍😀
That was supermodel Christie Brinkley, wouldn't anyone cheat for her? lol
Nope, I'd rather have the wife
The son, Rusty, is the same kid from Sixteen Candles (Farmer Ted, the Geek) and Breakfast Club (nerd Brian), Anthony Michael Hall.
4:58 - humm... Every year; because I am not American and in almost any other country two weeks are the absolute minimum vacation time employers have to give employees by law (My employer gives THREE weeks vacations to new hires).