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Written by James M. Tate / 10/11/2022 / No comments / anthony michael hall , beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , cult , dana barron , eighties , franchise , harold ramis , national lampoon , randy quaid , road movie

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBye7JeF40kDpzRyeDLlpJcWxm_ZQbaxVJBwapTKvJjiShuo2FgIm4KSsM12_I4AuWoqVw7-pO2Vhy5n1kmhQ_-Ur4C4KFX-iBJwT8htoe7sML2Ir6BmMhqGCPseziTXqZSR8v_cVzy6KpOmA55BdAr2K50YaysWvY0lo3E0I4M5kdo9Usk9dk9LUCw/s2210/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1378" data-original-width="2210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBye7JeF40kDpzRyeDLlpJcWxm_ZQbaxVJBwapTKvJjiShuo2FgIm4KSsM12_I4AuWoqVw7-pO2Vhy5n1kmhQ_-Ur4C4KFX-iBJwT8htoe7sML2Ir6BmMhqGCPseziTXqZSR8v_cVzy6KpOmA55BdAr2K50YaysWvY0lo3E0I4M5kdo9Usk9dk9LUCw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive optimism
 of a suburban dad driving reluctant yet resilient son Anthony Michael Hall and moody wannabe stoner daughter Dana Barron as the original Rusty and Audrey... and co-starring mostly perfect wife in Beverly D'Angelo: all stuck on a cross-country trip... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a 
curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous 
stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above
 and within) the Grand Canyon while Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash 
step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as 
Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony michael hall, beverly d'angelo, chevy chase, comedy, cult, dana barron, eighties, franchise, harold ramis, national lampoon, randy quaid, road movie

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive opti...

CHEVY CHASE, CINDY MORGAN & MICHAEL O'KEEFE 'CADDYSHACK'

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bill murray, chevy chase, cindy morgan, comedy, cult, eighties, ensemble, golf, harold ramis, michael o'keefe, rodney dangerfield, sport, ted knight

CHEVY CHASE, CINDY MORGAN & MICHAEL O'KEEFE 'CADDYSHACK'

Japenese Poster for CADDYSHACK Year: 1980 Rating: ****1/2 Originally an ANIMAL HOUSE of golf, directed by its co-writer, Harold Ramis, CADD...

CHEVY CHASE PHYSICALLY SUFFERING THROUGH 'MODERN PROBLEMS'

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His convertible's been keyed... nothing compared to the nuclear waste spilled from a truck, eventually allowing him to move things at will derived from the frustration of his girlfriend leaving: Herein the orchestrated physical gags are balanced along with Chase's deadpan humor, only more-so than usual: the poor guy's downright depressed...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

brian doyle murray, chevy chase, comedy, dabney coleman, eighties, fantasy, mary kay place, nell carter, patti d'arbanville, quirky, science-fiction, supernatural

CHEVY CHASE PHYSICALLY SUFFERING THROUGH 'MODERN PROBLEMS'

year: 1981 cast: Chevy Chase, Patty D'Arbinville, Dabney Coleman Rates: ***1/2 Based on the Front Page News of a then-newly-elected Pre...

HAWN AND GRODIN CHASE NEIL SIMON'S 'SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CUDjwKBJ6ea_Ku2hsHg8SsiQ_r3AVmnCusQx8zFQdKwraYXJZLhlthYKpLVqKx--b80h115kTj_CX9mVKqNfwNTI1kRNwuM7l2RkWfsD342HzATYXBCnsu6gXtMW4092p3Gb35Sv2gc1x4uslcJqjETnN1jQG_-E0MyuZyYjf1u8mbOHMGE45rwrXVzr/s1868/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CUDjwKBJ6ea_Ku2hsHg8SsiQ_r3AVmnCusQx8zFQdKwraYXJZLhlthYKpLVqKx--b80h115kTj_CX9mVKqNfwNTI1kRNwuM7l2RkWfsD342HzATYXBCnsu6gXtMW4092p3Gb35Sv2gc1x4uslcJqjETnN1jQG_-E0MyuZyYjf1u8mbOHMGE45rwrXVzr/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES Year Released; 1980 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the Hitchcock-style Goldie Hawn romp FOUL PLAY got the critical accolades, with Chevy Chase as her personal Cary Grant, SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES is not only a funnier pairing but better suits Chase's physical comedy...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even though Hawn, as the wife of a prominent D.A., is the central character, we begin with her flaky ex-husband Chase, an ex-con journalist kidnapped to rob a bank, becoming the Wrong Man and sent into hiding... into Hawn's busy house housing not only her important husband but a nagging maid, a crooked chauffeur and a bevy of orphaned dogs... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

charles grodin, chevy chase, comedy, eighties, ensemble, goldie hawn, neil simon, robert guillaume, slapstick, t.k. carter, wrong man

HAWN AND GRODIN CHASE NEIL SIMON'S 'SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES'

SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES Year Released; 1980 Rates: **** While the Hitchcock-style Goldie Hawn romp FOUL PLAY got the critical accolades, with C...

CHEVY CHASE AND DAN AYKROYD SEEK HOPE IN 'SPIES LIKE US'

action, adventure, bob hope, bruce davison, chevy chase, comedy, dan aykroyd, eighties, james daughton, john landis, nuclear, political, ray harryhausen, road movie, team-up, terry gilliam, tom hatten

CHEVY CHASE AND DAN AYKROYD SEEK HOPE IN 'SPIES LIKE US'

Title: Spies Like Us Year: 1986 Rating: *** Spouting technical jargon with a computer-like brain, Dan Aykroyd could have made the perfect ...

CHEVY CHASE AND MADOLYN SMITH STAR IN 'FUNNY FARM'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Dog gets a bone in George Roy Hill's Swan Song FUNNY FARM</u></td></tr>
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At first viewing, FUNNY FARM, on the heels of Chevy Chase's best performance and most hilarious vehicle backing up a perfectly suited character in the Neo Noir comedy FLETCH, and following his most "doing something <i>other</i> than being himself" turn as an obliviously optimistic suburban dad in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, following an underrated role that goes beneath yet equals Rodney Dangerfield in CADDYSHACK, feels like it could have starred any comedic actor and not just the tall subtle performer whose roles all seem intentionally catered to. He began his career as a sort of deadpan M.C. of the original SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and then wound up a charming leading man in hit and miss cinematic ventures including the Hitchcock sendup FOUL PLAY with Goldie Hawn and then a followup adhering to his brand of physical action, SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES... So it's never been like Chevy to fill in anyone's else shoes but his very own...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sarah Michelle Gellar Funny Farm cameo at the front right</u></td></tr>
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So not only is FUNNY FARM one of the last great Chevy Chase vehicles before he hit rock bottom with FLETCH LIVES and, after losing too much weight, floundered for purpose during the 1990's before hitting <i>beneath rock bottom </i>on his own late night talk show...<br />
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But it's the last motion picture directed by BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE STING ACCORDING TO SLAPSHOT George Roy Hill. Beyond the 80's techno-fun soundtrack, sounding like "Harold Faltermeyer Light", the film plays out splendidly by unveiling the misadventure of a city couple, Chase and scene-stealing wife Madolyn Smith, stuck in a Murphy's Law purgatory template, "What might go wrong will go wrong and DOES go wrong," taken to the edge of the nerves but without being too much for the audience to handle. In other words, our heroes are more tortured than we are. Thus it's a blast watching their lives continuously deconstruct, with the aid of perfectly-timed inserts and non-punchline/character-driven payoffs, caused by either the animals and hijinks within their rural "dream house" setting or the surrounding small town of Red Bluff, a Twilight Zone with no escape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dog's dead-pan hangover</u></td></tr>
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FUNNY FARM never hits a peak too soon to where the best scenes peter out by the time the last act has to follow the storyline through, like many a comedic film...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>MovieScore: ****</u></td></tr>
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In fact everything is so closely tied together that the dwindling marital relationship, exceeding all the misfires around them and becoming downright personal, is key – especially for poor Chevy's Andy Farmer, who, during one scene where he's watching his wife reading his novel manuscript (that he left his cozy sports writing job to complete), anticipating what he wants her reactions to be: anyone who's written anything will know how it feels when <i>someone else </i>reads your artistic endeavor, in the same room! Leading to Madolyn Corey's best moments involving a breakdown that's not only hilarious but, like the movie itself, trumps the Comedy genre and makes the people mean more than what they're constantly tugging from their audience: making FARM not only FUNNY, but completely entertaining.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Chevy Chase Madolyn Smith Funny Farm Madolyn Smith Chevy Chase 
George Roy Hill Funny Farm Chevy Chase </u></td></tr>
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brad sullivan, chevy chase, comedy, eighties, george roy hill, jack gilpin, kevin conway, madolyn smith, small town, william duell

CHEVY CHASE AND MADOLYN SMITH STAR IN 'FUNNY FARM'

The Dog gets a bone in George Roy Hill's Swan Song FUNNY FARM At first viewing, FUNNY FARM, on the heels of Chevy Chase's best p...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/07/2016 / No comments / chevy chase , daryl hannah , franchise , michael mckean , nineties , sam neill , science-fiction

CHEVY CHASE STARRING IN 'MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1992</u></td></tr>
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In fact, anyone familiar with cinema from the 70's and 80's had most likely heard of John Carpenter. But teaming up with Chase seems, and is, a strange concept. "Escape from New York... It's Saturday Niiiiight!" But the initial plans made more sense as Chase was intended to work under GHOSTBUSTERS director Ivan Reitman, who was no stranger to working with former groundbreaking SNL cast members. However, he dropped out after hearing it would be a comedy and mostly drama...<br>
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So the HALLOWEEN icon/Master of Horror was ready to play slave to the kind of uptight studio suits he'd usually be free from and, instead of adding the usual "John Carpenter's" before the title, he was willing to be a hired-hand for Chevy Chase's science-fiction labor of love albeit one that took its source with dignity without being a satire, and best yet, providing both actor and director a genuine challenge: Chase being serious, and Carpenter providing him a serious enough platform for that make sense. As one would imagine from its maligned reputation, there are some flaws... like a melodramatic narration that makes you forget how well he flowed words in FLETCH since he has to be deadpan without the usual subtle punchline. His tone falters trying to reach the necessary fevered pitch and the corny dialogue didn't help ("I felt... panicky"). And the fact, as a performer, Chase, who looked both in-shape and too thin (a bit on the sickly side), was in a sort of purgatory phase given his last few projects (Carpenter, too, was running dry of his former greatness)... But as purgatory goes, MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN isn't too shabby: Before computer-animation went all-out, the early nineties often relied on what looked somewhat weak and contrived, even then, paling to the hands-on 80's prosthetics from the likes of Rick Baker, Rob Bottin and hell, even Jim Henson. But they did a decent job here despite the limitations...<br>

chevy chase, daryl hannah, franchise, michael mckean, nineties, sam neill, science-fiction

CHEVY CHASE STARRING IN 'MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN'

Still Decent Special Effects for the Chase/Carpenter collaboration preCGI This is a Cornelius Production. Run by Chevy Chase. He obvious...

ED HELMS & CHRISTINA APPLEGATE IN VACATION

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The many faces and ages of Rusty Griswold: After being originally played by young teenager Anthony Michael Hall, and then taken over by a slightly older, similar looking Jason Lively, something bizarre occurred... While Clark and Ellen Griswold aged a bit, their daughter Audrey was still a teenager by the Christmas outing when Rusty became younger than he ever was in the first place. And Johnny Galecki eventually turned into college-aged Ethan Embry, and now Rusty seems to have found a genuine adult fit in Ed Helms, taking his family, consisting of wife and two sons, on a VACATION to, of all places, Wally World...<br />
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But this really isn't a sequel for the sake of theme or continuity. Within the first ten minutes, Helms's Rusty is as put-upon a workaday dad/father as you'll get in just about any modern comedy, only far more politically-correct than usual, not being able to scold his sons or sexually relate with his wife, Christina Applegate's Debbie. Like Chevy Chase in the original, Rusty's naive reason for the journey is to bond with the family, no matter what. Only this troubled clan doesn't have the sort of normal suburban chemistry from the onset for it to matter when things go completely wrong: they're like a hex suffering more bad luck...<br />
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From a muscle headed brother-in-law to a suicidal river rafting guide to a very dirty hot spring to a totaled car, all problems suffered by the Griswolds seem to come and go without rhyme or reason: contrived shock value over characters developing within a  hellish adventure... which isn't such a bad trip, really. The cast fits together like a comfortable shoe and there are a few laughable moments. But with vehicles like WE'RE THE MILLERS and a bevy of family road flicks inspired by the original National Lampoon franchise, why call this VACATION? If anything, the familiar names and places, and one extremely awkward cameo, hinders more than helps the overall pace.

2015, chevy chase, comedy, ed helms, road movie, sequel

ED HELMS & CHRISTINA APPLEGATE IN VACATION

year: 2015 rating: **1/2 The many faces and ages of Rusty Griswold: After being originally played by young teenager Anthony Michael Hall...

Written by James M. Tate / 3/05/2013 / No comments / burt reynolds , chevy chase , comedy , cyndi lauper , dan aykroyd , jeff goldblum , john belushi , john landis , list , michael j. fox , romantic comedy , steven spielberg

COMEDY FILMS MORE ENTERTAINING THAN FUNNY

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Chevy Chase is a loves-truck air-traffic controller who, after getting nuclear waste spilled on himself, gains powers to manipulate elements and human beings, and not in that order… Relying on physical gags and special effects, Chase wields his usual butter finger schtick but lacks the glib humor that worked in CADDYSHACK and FLETCH.. Yet it's still fun seeing the tables turning for our likable underdog...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>2) CLUB PARADISE (ROBIN WILLIAMS, PETER O'TOOLE)</u></td></tr>
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The promo picture of musical Jimmy Cliff, comedic Robin Williams and dramatic Peter O'Toole is proof this is a unique film, at least in the casting… Robin Williams is a retired fireman turning a shabby tropics hotel into a "resort"… Not many laughs but it's a nicely developed story, especially when the hotel fills up with guest-stars, all misled into paradise whilst experiencing hellish conditions...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>3) SPIES LIKE US (CHEVY CHASE, DAN AYKROYD)</u></td></tr>
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The first John Landis comedy that wasn’t hilarious, this homage to the Hope/Crosby ROAD TO flicks has Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd as expendable government agents sent into the Middle East and ultimately Cold War Russia… Although it’s hard to tell which is the straight man and who’s supposed to be the nitwit, SPIES is an entertaining adventure as they go from one dire situation to the next...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>4) GUNG HO (MICHAEL KEATON)</u></td></tr>
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In this underrated Ron Howard venture, Michael Keaton plays a small town big talker who manages to get a Japanese company to buy out a dying car factory in his home town... Havoc ensues as the American and Japanese workers square off… It's great seeing Keaton with his back against the wall, fighting with his wily charm to make everything, and everybody, work despite the constant odds...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>5) VIBES (JEFF GOLDBLUM, CYNDI LAUPER)</u></td></tr>
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Pop icon Cyndi Lauper is damn cute, and watching her traipse around New York and South America with Jeff Goldbum (along with Peter Falk as a fortune seeking con man) is decent lightweight time-filler viewing, that is, if you just wanna have fun…</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>6) PATERNITY (BURT REYNOLDS)</u></td></tr>
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The tagline/poster, with Burt Reynolds looking like Uncle Sam, pointing forward with the words HE WANTS <u>YOU</u><i> </i>TO HAVE HIS BABY, is the funniest thing about this filler rom-com during the mustache star’s box office peak… Burt is relaxing, charming and cool, as usual... And the lovely Beverly D'Angelo makes a worthy love interest...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>7) FOR LOVE OR MONEY (MICHAEL J. FOX)</u></td></tr>
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This revamp of THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS is a much more laidback outing where the laughs might be fewer but the unrequited love story between Michael J. Fox, as a hotel concierge, and a gorgeous yet down-to-earth perfume sales girl is a lot deeper and more realistic than SUCCESS and with intriguing results for our kindhearted, dealmaking hero, pulling favors and odd jobs for the rich guy the dream girl he loves, loves…</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>8) TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT (ROBERT HAYS, ART CARNEY)</u></td></tr>
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Known mostly for the singalong country theme song, this is a decent working class comedy starring Robert Hays as a corporate clone returning to his roots where a big beer company buys out the factory employing his pals (including David Keith and Tim Thomerson)… Hays learns that no matter how expensive the suit, his heart's still made of gold: the frothy kind...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>9) STRAIGHT TALK (DOLLY PARTON, JAMES WOODS)</u></td></tr>
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Before Dolly Parton vanished from the film scene, she was still cute and energetic in this underdog comedy about a hick town dance instructor who winds up a popular radio shrink/doctor, falling in love with a reporter out to expose her real identity… Completely banal and predictable but one helluva guilty pleasure...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>10) 1941 (JOHN BELUSHI, DAN AYKROYD, ROBERT STACK)</u></td></tr>
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After JAWS and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, Steven Spielberg, still a young man, was doomed to fail with this big budget everything-goes World War II extravaganza that mixes so many elements the projector gets indigestion… But John Belushi as a crazy pilot in the air, and Dan Aykroyd as a crazy Sergeant on the ground, are both fun to watch along with an all-star cast, running around like headless chickens... Yet it's great to see them under the camera-wielding FX-driven direction of a master filmmaker who, despite playing too many cards, still pulls off an amazing visual spectacle...<br />
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COMEDY FILMS MORE ENTERTAINING THAN FUNNY

1) MODERN PROBLEMS (CHEVY CHASE) A lot of times, those particular comedy films that don’t provide constant sidesplitting/laugh out loud m...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2013 / No comments / beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , diane ladd , e.g. marshall , franchise , randy quaid , sequel

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION

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The third VACATION and the second written by story creator John Hughes, CHRISTMAS is more of a reboot than a sequel, starting everything from scratch for a new generation: as if there were no other trips beforehand...<br />
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Daughter Audrey is more bitter and frustrated than ever, and somehow Rusty, now with brown hair instead of blonde, is thirteen-years-old again... <br />
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The kids and mom don’t amount to much anyway, merely witnessing Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase at the tail-end of his comedic peak) and his clumsy misadventures as the host of an overcrowded holiday home: including both sets of in-laws. The only real input for family’s sake is Randy Quaid’s white trash Cousin Eddie: A scene-stealer in the first film given his own fifteen minute layover, Eddie becomes Clark’s partner-in-crime. But Quaid seems to be doing an exaggerated imitation, turning Eddie into an over-the-top comic book character. Meanwhile, Clark's reactionary disdain for his cousin-in-law's gross-out personality becomes redundant, especially after the first ten times.<br />
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Most of the film's spoken jokes are limp and somewhat forced. The funniest moments rely on physical gags: the fate of a curious cat; an enraged squirrel; and Christmas house lights that refuse to work.<br />
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The direction, including handheld camera and intentionally awkward moments, flows pretty well with the John Hughes script that, as usual, mixes semi dark comedy with pathos and hijinx. While the soundtrack can be spooky and ominous, befitting what’s going on in Clark’s troubled mind, successfully contrasting with the old fashion Norman Rockwell house and backdrop.<br />
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Touted as a Holiday classic, this is really a hit-and-miss outing. The most family oriented Lampoon venture keeps some of the blue humor hidden yet it’s implied throughout.<br />
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Glimpses of a brooding Clark at work in the office, hoping for a bonus check to buy a swimming pool, and the intrusion of a put-upon yuppie couple who live next door – victims of whatever Clark’s doing outside – are distractions to get us out of the crowded house. Yet with these sporadic reminders of real life, we often forget we’re on vacation.

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NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION

year: 1989 rating: *** The third VACATION and the second written by story creator John Hughes, CHRISTMAS is more of a reboot than a sequ...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/01/2013 / No comments / anthony michael hall , beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , dana barron , eighties , randy quaid

DANA BARRON CINEMA SPECIAL: VACATION, STAGEGHOST, MAGIC KID 2, XMAS VACATION 2, DEATH WISH 4

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Perhaps Chevy Chase's best performance, brilliantly capturing the naive optimism of a corny suburban dad driving reluctant kids Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Baron, and wife Beverly D'Angelo, on a cross-country trip. The nightmare begins with the wrong car at the car lot, resembling a sick-green turtle with a Hefty air bag.<br />
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Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above and within) the Grand Canyon. Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly.<br />
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Although hilarious through and through, there's a dark side to this VACATION. As bad luck piles on, Clark gets more and more annoyed at his family, who simply refuse to enjoy the trip: they would have rather gone to Hawaii anyhow. But Clark's blind determination never refrains, another reason Chevy Chase should be given more credit as an actor and not just a funny guy.<br />
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Supermodel Christy Brinkley, as a roaming babe in a convertible, is a memorable distraction: all leading to a wonderfully bizarre finale at their destination, Wally World. And not to forget the glorious Lindsay Buckingham theme song "Holiday Road," second only to Kenny Loggin's "I'm Alright" from a previous Chase vehicle, CADDYSHACK.</div>
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In STAGEGHOST, a dark Western falsely promoted as a horror flick, Dana Barron plays good girl Renee Bloomer, who falls for bad boy Christopher Atkins as a character named Bronson, a bank robbing prisoner of world-weary U.S. Marshall Colburn. A gruff Edward Albert fits more within the cowboy genre yet he brings out something in Atkins, who’s constantly joking around – even when things get dire.</div>
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The film begins at a coach station run by John Vernon and Terry Moore. Directed by Stephen Furst, famous for Flounder in ANIMAL HOUSE, it’s neat that he’s cast his Faber College Dean but the two old-timers don’t last long. They’re important though, massacred by a mysterious wraith that left a note on a knife on the door, after which an empty stage coach filled with blood rolls up to the station: hence the title and thus our story begins. <br />
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For such a low budget with terrible nighttime lighting, it’s not such a bad movie. The action rolls with the ghost-coach as the characters go from one location to the next, haunted and/or picked off by a group of horse-riding marauders who wear neon skeleton costumes.  </div>
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It’s when we actually take part in the bad guy’s perspective that all suspense is gone. While our heroes are still unaware, the audience knows way too much, too soon. But then, narrowing onto a shootout climax, we learn that the real “antagonists” are still out there, resulting in a lame, politically-correct twist ending that involves Native Americans.</div>
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Dana looks great in the time-period costumes and even has a character-arc as she gets less uptight and even becomes part of the action.<br />
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The next Dana Barron outing came out a few years earlier and was also directed by Stephen Furst. Furst and Barron are cinematically related, as in, both co-starred in (the best) films produced by NATIONAL LAMPOON magazine: Barron as Chevy Chase’s daughter Audrey in VACATION and Furst as fat frat boy Flounder in ANIMAL HOUSE.</div>
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This is the sequel to an ultra low budget family karate film THE MAGIC KID, where Stephen Furst plays shifty but lovable Uncle Bob to Ted Jan Robert’s Kevin, a kid who can really kick some butt.<br />
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In the first film he’s trained by Don the Dragon Steele and hangs around the Universal Studios lot with his uncle, acting as a pseudo tour guide and thus promoting the theme park (probably to help fund the project: the ultimate product placement). And in this sequel, with a higher budget but lacking the overall charm, Kevin is a hot young actor in a popular show called “The Ninja Kid.”</div>
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A fame-reluctant Kevin is forced into interviews and even goes to a nightclub with a sexy older woman, part of the nefarious producer’s plans to make him garner publicity, but since he works so hard he’s not learning much of the scholastic nature.<br />
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Meanwhile, a brooding Kevin spends time with his tutor’s gorgeous daughter Maggie… that’s right, Dana Barron. Here’s another example of how young Dana Barron can make herself look. In VACATION you’d think she was around thirteen but she was sixteen or seventeen during filming, and here she’s hooked up with Kevin, who hasn’t even finished growing, and she’s in her middle twenties playing his teenage girlfriend.  </div>
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But as an actress, Dana not only looks young but she pulls off the sweet innocence of youth, and her scenes make up for the rest of the film’s convoluted plotline, or lack of. In other words, Maggie’s 11th hour relationship with Kevin means more than all the karate fights and frantic arguments leading up to that eventual romantic closure. <br />
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That’s right, it's CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE'S ISLAND ADVENTURE, a sequel to a sequel where Eddie, played by Randy Quaid – that endearingly gross white trash slob from the NATIONAL LAMPOON VACATION universe – has his own straight-to-DVD movie, and it’s so awful you might just enjoy yourself.<br />
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Eddie works at a nuclear physics lab. He and a monkey are both used for testing and the monkey is smarter. Eddie loses his job and they keep the monkey. He goes back to complain and the monkey bites Eddie on the ass. Instead of pursuing a lawsuit, he gets a free vacation to an unnamed tropical Island. That’s the plot in a nutshell.</div>
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Dana Barron returns as Audrey Griswold</div>
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Much like Hawaii, there are beautiful brown-skinned bikini girls and… let’s back up a bit. Eddie lives in the snow-laden Chicago based Griswold house from the first CHRISTMAS VACATION film (the third in the franchise).</div>
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His patient and loyal wife Catherine (Miriam Flynn) is still around, and instead of an eclectically messy brood of children he has only one kid, an impatient thirteen-year-old boy who actually has a brain. This uptight jerk keeps riding dad on his lack of intelligence, and thus becomes the most annoying character, especially since he wants Eddie to be like everyone else.</div>
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Also on board is the original Audrey Griswold, played by the lovely Dana Barron (then replaced by Dana Hill and Juliette Lewis), who, frantically brokenhearted over a boyfriend, joins Eddie, his wife, son, and grumpy grandfather (Ed Asner) on the island vacation that soon turns into a Swiss Family Robinson when their boat gets shipwrecked.</div>
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Eddie has to learn to hunt wild boar and build a hut of leaves, and eventually fly a plane. There are but a few unsuccessfully signature moments that made Cousin Eddie famously sloppy from the previous films, especially because there’s no Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) to act as a Felix to counter-balance Eddie’s Oscar. Plus, this is supposedly a Christmas Vacation, but there’s hardly any sign of Christmas anywhere.</div>
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It makes complete sense that Charles Bronson’s iconic vigilante Paul Kersey, who works as an architect by day and, whenever a problem arises, takes care of business by night, would become a bonafide hit man. After three entire films he’s gotten so good at killing criminals, he's hired by a mysterious "millionaire" (John P. Ryan) to infiltrate a rival gang by any means possible.</div>
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For those new to the DEATH WISH franchise, Kersey’s wife was murdered in the first movie, his daughter raped – then in part two his daughter's killed and now he’s up against the mafia after his girlfriend’s teenage daughter, played by VACATION actress Dana Barron, takes a lethal dose of crack cocaine from a mob-connected street dealer. This death makes the millionaire's offer that much more lucritive.</div>
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Kersey's vendetta begins with the dealer himself, but this isn't as basic as it sounds. After being hired he doesn’t just go around offing bad guys. Upon every hit, the two targeted mob "families" fight amongst themselves. With a crooked cop in the mix, Kersey gets caught in-between. And then a third act twist puts our mustached hero on the run. </div>
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The direction by Bronson collaborator J. Lee Thompson is tight and focused, but unfortunatly, instead of the urban-gritty Jimmy Page soundtrack of parts two and three, there’s a glossy saxophone score popular in the eighties and making the film, even in the best action sequences, feel like a straight-to-video release.</div>
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But directing and music doesn’t matter. As Bronson goes from bad guy to bad guy with interesting setups and/or missions for each hit, whether going undercover in a factory or sneaking into a high rise penthouse leading to a final shootout in an arcade, there’s much more involved than revenge: it's an actual job this time around.<br />
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