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Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: I'm all for bawdy, politically incorrect, wildly inappropriate humor -- when there are consistent and genuine laughs to be mined from the material. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: That sound you hear is John Hughes and Harold Ramis, the writer and director of the original, rolling over in their graves. And not from laughter, which is in very short supply here. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: A trip to the corner store with this cast of characters would be an endurance test - which, with any luck, is as far as the movie's box office returns will carry it. Read more
Jesse Hassenger, AV Club: Whenever Daley and Goldstein have the opportunity to make any biting observations or mount sustained original gags, they floor it in the opposite direction. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It falls to Helms to carry the movie, and he's not quite up to it. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It holds on to the original's acrid cynicism for the first 40 minutes or so before turning predictable and bland. There are some real, nasty laughs to be had here, but they're front-loaded. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Respectably funny. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: If any of this was surprising or cleverly timed, you'd laugh and then cringe. In "Vacation" you cringe first and ask questions later. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: Helms' Griswold is a dangerous, moronic maniac, and the filmmakers' disdain for him rubs off on the audience. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: The new Vacation is both better than I'd feared and not as hilarious as I'd hoped. It's intermittently funny and instantly forgettable. Read more
Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times: The kind of movie that exists because greenlighting it is easier than thinking. Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: It's as if Daley and Goldstein started with a list of disgusting topics - outre sex acts, human waste, pubic hair, projectile vomiting, cow cannibalism, et al. - and constructed a narrative around them. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Everyone deserves a vacation. And everyone deserves a better comedy than "Vacation." Read more
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: A very funny R-rated movie with a PG-13 heart. Read more
Molly Eichel, Philadelphia Inquirer: There's nothing to say that crass can't be funny - and it sometimes is in Daley and Goldstein's iteration - but Vacation loses any of the ooey-gooey, family-friendly heart that made you really want Clark to get to Walley World to begin with. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Vacation passes the most important test of any comedy: it's funny. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Raucous R-rated fun? You'd think, but the gags smack of desperation. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: "Vacation" is consistently funny from beginning to end, a piling on of dumb but inventive jokes and excruciating, awkward situations. Read more
Calum Marsh, Globe and Mail: There's so much dead air in the film that I wondered whether punchlines had been cleaved out to secure a PG-13 rating, but no: it's a hard, inexplicable R. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: It's taken more than 30 years for a new family of Griswolds to make an ill-fated cross-country trip to Walley World. Worth the wait? Not really. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: All too true to the experience of taking a long family trip: there are a few special moments you'll remember and talk about later, but for the most part, it's a featureless, repetitive voyage that can't be over soon enough. Read more
David Ehrlich, Time Out: A rare reboot so foul and humorless it makes you question whatever attachment you might have to the original, this lazy retread of Harold Ramis's 1983 Vacation sours everything that's made that film such an undying fixture of basic cable. Read more
Jim Slotek, Toronto Sun: I must adhere to my rule that, no matter how else I feel about a comedy, it gets a passing grade if it makes me laugh -- which I did, several times. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: This new Vacation is hardly an improvement on the old Vacation, and may in fact be worse. Neither of them, to borrow the immortal words of the Go-Go's, is all we ever wanted. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Vacation is lazy, idiotic, and gross - and I laughed my ass off at it. Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: No one expects originality, but the new movie may end up making history: It's already looking like the worst movie of the year. Read more
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press: Vacation is an over-the-top, often hilarious homage to the original from the earnest and talented writing-directing team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Read more
Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: The filmmakers' unsubtle style is responsible for killing many of the jokes. But they do succeed with several of the performers. Read more