Search - National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion on DVD

A Laugh A Minute...Priceless!!!

P. B Rubalcaba | Redlands, CA USA | 02/06/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Before you ask the question, the answer is "yes". I

do spend a good portion of my free time watching

movies...and the one I just finished watching was a

side-splitter.



Any "National Lampoon" fans in the crowd? If you

enjoyed NL's "Vacation", "Christmas Vacation",

"European Vacation" and "Vegas Vacation", you will

love "National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion". If you are

a Baby Boomer (like me) you will warm up to this film

quicker than a frog on a lily pad. Then again, frog

butts are mighty cold.



The scripting, casting and editing is seamless...even

though I'm sure this was a cable TV product due to the

pauses (where commercials could be inserted).



My dear friend Darlene would love it. The lead

characters remind me so much of our long lost

friends...Mickey and Kitty. That's between Darlene

and I and I will not venture further.



Bottom line, this is a story of a big city family

transplanted into the backwoods for a "real" family

Thanksgiving. Coming out of the city shell and into

the country hell is handled so well I could not stop

laughing. What an enjoyable comedy. Mature audiences

(that means young adults, old adults and baby boomer

and bloomers) will cuddle up to a piece of life that

is often forgotten...overlooked...taken advantage of.





Here's a piece of the script. I just had to write it

down:



"I've been through every kind of weather and stormy

seas;

Now I do just what I want when I please.

I'm only getting better like a vintage wine;

And there's still a lot of livin' in this body of

mine."



In the National Lampoon genre', this one gets a solid

10. Wanna have a good laugh? Don't miss it...can you

hear me Darlene?"

THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE ! ! ! !

#1 Kiss Army Soldier | La Paz, Bolivia | 01/22/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Do not watch this one. A complete waste of time. Watch DUPLEX instead."

Ridiculous

CloseYourEyes | Somewhere | 03/31/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"UGH, i am sick of this whole "national lampoon" movie thing. The only truly funny laugh out loud, and hillarious National Lampoon movies are the VACATION SERIES, other than that all of them are just bogus and are so stupid they actually put you to sleep. I personally am i HUGE movie buff, and appriciate all sorts of movies, and am open and welcome to new ideas, but this is just ridiculous, how many movies are they going to make? and when are they going to stop? I found this to be more of a horror movie than a comedy. It tries so hard to be funny, but it fails miserably, even my cousin (who laughs at EVERYTHING) had to turn this off within 30 minutes, and it took many days for me to finnish the movie myself, i cant say exactly how long, but i had to watch it in incriments of i think 15 minutes each day, and from the second i started it, i was praying for the 15 minutes to be up! dont watch!!"