Arguably the most popular of the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is the kind of film that gets better the more you watch it. In complete honesty, I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid and even then I rarely saw the entire movie. But it's just one of those things you associate with the holidays. Clark Griswold and his family clearly represent some of the best comedy in the 1980's and Christmas Vacation uses the best concept: a dad who just wants to have the perfect Christmas, and takes it to the extremes. I remember the sledding scene very well from NBC's annual airings as well as the Griswolds' barely fitting their tree in the family house at the beginning of the movie. It just combines so many things associated with the holidays and takes them by the ears on a wild ride.
If you haven't seen Christmas Vacation, make sure you make a point of it this holiday season.
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