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National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion

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UGH, i am sick of this whole "national lampoon" movie thing. The only truly funny laugh out loud, and hillarious National Lampoon movies are the VACATION SERIES, other than that all of them are just bogus and are so stupid they actually put you to sleep. I personally am i HUGE movie buff, and appriciate all sorts of movies, and am open and welcome to new ideas, but this is just ridiculous, how many movies are they going to make? and when are they going to stop? I found this to be more of a horror movie than a comedy. It tries so hard to be funny, but it fails miserably, even my cousin (who laughs at EVERYTHING) had to turn this off within 30 minutes, and it took many days for me to finnish the movie myself, i cant say exactly how long, but i had to watch it in incriments of i think 15 minutes each day, and from the second i started it, i was praying for the 15 minutes to be up! dont watch!!

Before you ask the question, the answer is "yes". I
do spend a good portion of my free time watching
movies...and the one I just finished watching was a
side-splitter.

Any "National Lampoon" fans in the crowd? If you
enjoyed NL's "Vacation", "Christmas Vacation",
"European Vacation" and "Vegas Vacation", you will
love "National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion". If you are
a Baby Boomer (like me) you will warm up to this film
quicker than a frog on a lily pad. Then again, frog
butts are mighty cold.

The scripting, casting and editing is seamless...even
though I'm sure this was a cable TV product due to the
pauses (where commercials could be inserted).

My dear friend Darlene would love it. The lead
characters remind me so much of our long lost
friends...Mickey and Kitty. That's between Darlene
and I and I will not venture further.

Bottom line, this is a story of a big city family
transplanted into the backwoods for a "real" family
Thanksgiving. Coming out of the city shell and into
the country hell is handled so well I could not stop
laughing. What an enjoyable comedy. Mature audiences
(that means young adults, old adults and baby boomer
and bloomers) will cuddle up to a piece of life that
is often forgotten...overlooked...taken advantage of.


Here's a piece of the script. I just had to write it
down:

"I've been through every kind of weather and stormy
seas;
Now I do just what I want when I please.
I'm only getting better like a vintage wine;
And there's still a lot of livin' in this body of
mine."

In the National Lampoon genre', this one gets a solid
10. Wanna have a good laugh? Don't miss it...can you
hear me Darlene?

Do not watch this one. A complete waste of time. Watch DUPLEX instead.

I orginally saw this on television when it was called Thanksgiving Reunion. I had high hopes for it for a couple of reasons. National Lampoon Christmas Vacation is one of my all time favorite Christmas movies. In addition, there are simply not enough Thanksgiving movies - the whole holiday seems to get skipped over between Halloween and Christmas.
The story was not a bad premise. However, it is the kind of movie that I kept watching thinking that I would laugh at any more moment. The story just keeps wandering with not much humor weaved in. The lack of laughter lead to a boring movie. I think I actually, and painfully, finished watching the whole movie. It had a lot of promise and failed to deliver.
Add to it that they renamed it to Holiday Reunion (PC move? - since when is Thanksgiving considered offensive..... to whom?).
Pass on this movie and pick up Christmas Vacation instead.

This movie was really, really, really bad. I can't believe it was even made. I thought National Lampoon would have written a better movie. Avoid this movie.

I rented this movie (thankfully, a free rental) because I love Hallie Todd as an actress. She's the only saving grace in the movie. She's hysterical, and quite a departure from Jo McGuire. The rest of the movie, YIKES! It's definitely the lowest form of humour. It has a great premise--uptown yuppie family visiting a family of hippies who are extremely backward. However, it falls flat. Unless you're a "die hard" National Lampoon's fan, skip this movie (or rent it as a free rental). I rented it free, and still felt I paid too much (in gasoline!).