Monday, April 12, 2021

CHRISTMAS VACATION

CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989)
dir: Jeremiah Chechik

MAD #296, June 1990
w: Stan Hart
a: Sam Viviano

from Video Reviews. Third in the series of the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.
(Dennis was the Quaid brother they meant. Randy has his own eccentricities.)


Partially based on a short story in the December 1980 issue of National Lampoon called Christmas '59 written by John Hughes and illustrated by MAD cover artist Richard Williams. Part of Sixteen Candles was based on this as well. If you thought the Long Duk Dong character in the latter was racist, multiply that by ten and you have the Asian exchange student from this story, typical of the dark turn the magazine started taking at the time.

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