Christmas Vacation's sendup of boomer holiday largesse is still hilarious, and even more cutting.
White suburban dads in the movies of the ’80s and ’90s looked exactly the same as my own father—a man who, when I was two, wired up a cardboard box with batteries and lights so that I could be a Transformer for Halloween, lighting it all up by pushing a button. It’s one of the reasons why paterfamilias Clark Griswold’s epic battle with his exterior lighting setup insurrealist exaggeration of actual holiday hell.
Ellen: “I know how you build things up in your mind. You set standards that no family can ever live up to.”Ellen: “Parties, weddings, anniversaries, funerals, holidays, vacations, graduations…” The rest of the family, Ellen , Audrey and Rusty , are relegated to background characters in this installment, with barely any of their own gags and not a single subplot. Even more than in the road trip movies, they’re just trying to survive their father’s self-centeredness and avoid their squabbling family members from out of town. Galecki plays off Chase the best though, as a son who is so disillusioned with his father’s uniformly, predictably bad behavior that it’s become resignation.
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