National Lampoon's Vacation - being rebooted with Ed Helms and Christina Applegate

So Rusty Griswold (the son to Chevy Chase's character in the franchise) is "the man" now. Ed Helms has been confirmed for the role of Rusty, and now, Christina Applegate is close to signing on as Rusty's wife.

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/christina-applegate-taking-working-vacation-214118934.html

 

Sounds good to me. I liked all the Vacation movies. Well European Vacation wasn't too great, the others weren't too bad.

 

I want them to remake it to match the original story in National Lampoon magazine, where it was Disneyland and, after Dad found that it was closed for repairs, he buys a gun and a map of the stars homes and shoots Walt Disney. It's a lot funnier than I'm making it sound. I can see Helms doing a good job if the script is anywhere near half decent, which it probably won't be.

 

I'm in for this...

 

After Vegas Vacation, I'm not too optimistic that anything good will come out of any further Vacation movies.

 

I actually thought "Vegas" was okay. I liked it more than "Christmas" or "European"...

 

Someone needs to come up with a new idea. Milking an old one almost never comes out well.

Love all the Vacations..........except for European.

 

I like Christina Applegate, but this is a bad idea.

 

Plus, they'll probably amp up the grossness of the brother-in-law character, which was my least favorite part of the original. I guess they have a 50-50 chance with this - two of the original four were good.

 

I actually expect this one to be way, way toned-down from the original, which is really kinda dark and/or mean-spirited in a lot of its gags (which is why I love it). I have a feeling we're in for a much dumber PG family comedy this time around.

 

Bad idea, and the addition of Applegate to the cast worsens it. I've always viewed her as a cinematic kiss of death, someone whose presence in a film dooms it to either be terrible or fail financially.

 

The quality of any of the past films is irrelevant. This is a reboot being done by a totally new creative team...that's like saying you weren't holding out much hope for JJ Abrams Star Trek film because you didn't like "Star Trek: Nemesis".

 

Well, I wasn't.....

 

JJ Abrams is directing this? OK, I am in...

 

Ed Helms is not marquee material.

 

I don't know what to think, so by default I guess I'm slightly optimistic. If they don't water things down too much (lots of VERY non-PC stuff in the original films!) and if Applegate remembers she's acting for the big screen instead of a sitcom, this might turn out to be very worthwhile. Abrams being involved is also reason for hope.

 

Ugh...No.

 

Vegas Vacation was a bore... wish they would've stopped with Christmas Vacation. However, I hope this new one is good. It's not really a reboot though, seeing as how it's Rusty all grown up and with a family now.

 

A mentioned above, hopefully the original story is the inspiration, as opposed to the original films...


http://www.bizbag.com/Vacation/Vacation 58.htm

 

Ed who?

 

Yeah...that's why they are re-booting the series, so they can get closer to the source material.

 

Too bad they couldn't get Edd Kookie Byrnes and his daughter Amanda Byrnes to do it, as they originally intended.

 

I ran into Ed at Gelson's in Pasadena yesterday. Not as tall as I expected. No glasses. End transmission.

 

I'm in. I liked all of them except for European..

Christina was good in Ron Burgundy.

 

Yes. Vegas is my favorite out of all of them.