National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) is among my favourite comedies; I was disappointed when it didn't make AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list. European Vacation is underrated and Christmas Vacation is enjoyable, but Vegas Vacation (1997) wasn't very good. Well, now the Griswolds are back in this short film, and it's a better note to end on than Vegas Vacation. It's actually got more laughs than Vegas Vacation, and that was a full-length film! The movie is basically about Clark and Ellen Griswold, now grandparents, staying a night at a hotel that (unsurprisingly) isn't as dreamy as they expected.
Maybe it's arguable that the Griswolds were more enjoyable as a younger couple (like when Beverly D'Angelo flashed her breasts in the original). However, they're basically still the same luckless fools and recasting Clark and Ellen would have made the movie look cheap. The part where the young man asks the Griswolds how much money they have is a nice reference to the original. The towel talk may have gone on too long, but generally this movie was a worthy chapter in the Vacation series.
Maybe it's arguable that the Griswolds were more enjoyable as a younger couple (like when Beverly D'Angelo flashed her breasts in the original). However, they're basically still the same luckless fools and recasting Clark and Ellen would have made the movie look cheap. The part where the young man asks the Griswolds how much money they have is a nice reference to the original. The towel talk may have gone on too long, but generally this movie was a worthy chapter in the Vacation series.