National Lampoon’s Vacation
The Mitchells, much like the Griswolds of
National Lampoon’s Vacation, are your average American dysfunctional family. Try-hard dad, Rick (Danny McBride) and nerdy teenage daughter, Katie (Abbi Jacobson), really don’t get each other: he’s an outdoorsman and she just wants to make movies. All the while mum, Linda (Maya Rudolph) and dinosaur-obsessed younger brother, Aaron (Michael Rianda) struggle to try and maintain the peace at the dinner table.
When Katie gets admitted to film school, she feels like she’s finally found her tribe and can’t wait to ditch home (and dad) to start her new life. But poor, sentimental, misguided Rick lovingly sabotages her first glorious chance at freedom by cancelling her one-way plane ticket, forcing Kate to trade in Freshers Week for a farewell cross-country family road trip.
Directed by Michael Rianda.
Starring Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda, Olivia Colman, Eric André, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.
SYNOPSIS:
A dysfunctional family find themselves as humanity’s last hope – the only people who manage to avoid captivity when a tech company inadvertently brings about a robot apocalypse.
There’s no hotter quality in family cinema than Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Whether it’s their work as writer-directors on
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and
The Lego Movie or their producing gig on the monster-hit
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, they have had a consistent and compelling output in the animated sphere. There’s a certain expectation that comes with a “Lord and Miller production”, and it weighs heavily. Thankfully,