Vacation

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou

Stars: Léa Seydoux, Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz

Storyline

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, an adult Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country road trip to Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

 Reviews

Director/Writers Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley ("Bones") get second generation Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms "The Office") to talk his wife (Christina Applegate "Married with Children") and quirky sons (Skyler Gisondo "The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and straight talking Steele Stebbins) into a car adventure back to Walley World. The fastest distance between two points is never a straight line for the Griswold's, and that propels the cross-country high-jinks forward. Helms' knows how to push a joke without over doing it, while Applegate continues to prove beauty and comedy are a good mix. The kids reversal of brother rivalry is in capable hands with Gisondo and Stebbins. Leslie Mann ("Knocked Up) steps in as grown-up sister Audrey, who is married to sex pervert country boy / Newscaster Chris Hemsworth ("THOR") - get ready for a look at all that Hemsworth has to offer. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo make a nice cameo, but are unfortunately under utilized. "Vacation" isn't brain surgery, so just fasten your seat-belt and go with the silly, crude and rude.