Description
Product Description
The Griswalds are on vacation again when they win a deluxe tour of the old world and take on the European continent — the continent loses.
After winning a tour package in a game show, the bickering Griswald family carve a trail of destruction through England (where they knock over Stonehenge), France, Germany, and Italy. Somehow Ellen (Bevery D’Angelo), the mom, gets kidnapped by gangsters, leading to a car chase that reunites the family, despite their differences. It’s hard to believe that National Lampoon’s European Vacation is only the second of the Vacation movies; it has the exhausted pallor of the last of a long series of sequels, drained of all zest or original ideas. The charmless smirk of Chevy Chase, mechanical in its idiocy, hangs over European Vacation like a death mask. It’s hard to believe that this hack was once the funny and sexy hero of Foul Play. D’Angelo keeps her chin up and gives the movie whatever class it may have; she deserves better. –Bret Fetzer
Product details
Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively, John Astin
Directors: Amy Heckerling
Writers: John Hughes, Robert Klane
Producers: Matty Simmons, Stuart Cornfeld
Format: Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats, Dolby
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
PG-13
Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: April 2, 2002
Run Time: 95 minutes
