Product Details

• Actors: Bryan Cranston, Judge Reinhold, Penelope Ann Miller, Hallie Todd, Meghan Ory
• Directors: Neal Israel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: November 16, 2004
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002XVKM2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,994 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Against the ardent wishes of his wife, eleven-year-old son, and sixteen-year-old daughter, ALBERT SNIDER (Judge Reinhold) is determined to have a festive family holiday. Albert doesn't seem to realize that his kids would rather stick needles in their eyes then spend time with their stuffy dad, and his wife is equally fed up by their dull life. When he receives an invitation from his long lost cousin Woodrow (Bryan Cranston), he decides to take his family out to the country for a down-home family holiday. However, Cousin Woodrow and his family turn out to be nuttier than a holiday fruitcake! What follows is a full course meal of nonstop laughs and holiday hilarity when the neurotic 'burbs clash with the hippy hicks from hell in National Lampoon's most outrageous family misadventure yet!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE ! ! ! !, January 22, 2005

By	#1 Kiss Army Soldier "Ramiro" (La Paz, Bolivia) - See all my reviews

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

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Laugh A Minute...Priceless!!!, February 5, 2005

By	P. B Rubalcaba "PR Guy" (Redlands, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous, March 31, 2005

By	CloseYourEyes (Somewhere) - See all my reviews

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!!