Classic Friday : National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) 6/10

Starring : Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, Randy Quaid
Director : Jeremiah S Chechik
Running Time : 93 mins

Rather than going away for their Christmas holidays, Clark Griswold (Chase) and his family decide to hold a good old fashioned family Christmas at home, and invite Ellen 's(D'Angelo) parents over for the special day. But when their unwelcome cousins from Kansas turn up, things start going horribly wrong in the usual Griswold way.

Not the best of the Vacation movies, but easily superior to European Vacation, this was more of a family film than the preceding two, with little or no foul language and very little adult humour. Clearly a practice run for John Hughes who made Home Alone a year later, this movie is filled with enough prat falls and out and out assaults to keep even the most miserable of children amused.

You’ll like this if you liked : Home Alone