Review of National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) by Sheila Benson for Los Angeles Times — 09 Oct 1994
There was bite and outrageousness and a touch of the surreal to the excesses of National Lampoon's Vacation (in which Chevy Chase and Harold Ramis humanized Hughes' cartoonlike material). This was writing whose springboard might have been awful firsthand experience.
European Vacation feels as though it were dreamed up to cover the rent on the beach house for the summer.
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This review of National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) was written by Sheila Benson and published by Los Angeles Times on 09 Oct 1994.
National Lampoon's European Vacation has generally received mixed reviews.
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