Thanksgiving Family Reunion

What an insult to all the previous National Lampoon Vacation movies! Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid and the others who helped make the National Lampoon Vacation movie series great over the past 20 years should be apologized to. This movie was absolute horrible! Judge Reinhold I felt was the wrong person to play the character Mitch Snyder. (I'm glad they had sense enough not to call him Clark Griswold as well!). The movie never really produced any genuine all-out laughs.

If you're a big fan of the National Lampoon Vacation movies, you're gonna be disappointed with this one. All I will say is it's a good thing it was made-for-tv movie and was free!

This movie was as lame as they come. Right in step with all the other straight to video/TV National Lampoon ventures. I tuned in hoping for humor because I enjoyed the works of other members of the cast, specifically Bryan Cranston and Penelope-Ann Miller. I was hoping to see Judge Reinhold in something that might be up to par with his long ago comedies. I think I was also sucked in by the fact that this was from the writers of Vegas Vacation, which despite many others opinions is a National Lampoon movie I very much enjoyed. No such luck. There is none of the trademark N.L.'s wit to this movie. The jokes are dull, beyond low brow, and fall totally flat. This is one movie you won't be sorry you missed.

The whole plot is continuously contredicting itself. First of all, what was with those kids? I couldn't stand that little snob Allison whom had no acting talent whatsoever(reminds me of Paris Hilton). Then there was the pointless characters of the two younger siblings because they didn't do anything. Then Twig contredicts herself near the end by befriending that witch and going out with that ugly guy. The adults make no sense because "Woody" said he beleives in karma AND a good ass kicking. The two contredict themselves completely! The wife always seemed to stay by her man and loving him, even having sex with him in front of their guests! But in some odd scenes she's telling her husband that if he doesn't ask his cousin for money she'll leave him. What's with that?The rich woman was too flakey, and easily persuaded into things. then there was Uncle Phil who was just grotesque! If you want a flick that looks great on the promos but is a real turkey in general(no pun intended)watch this excuse for a National Lampoon.

I almost never give movies a 1/10; even really bad films usually have some small redeeming qualities. Unfortunately Thanksgiving Family Reunion is so mind-numbing bad it isn't even worth seeing for a cheap laugh.

Horribly delivered, unfunny, often embarrassing jokes, terrible acting, completely forgettable characters, and no plot or direction what so ever. A completely pointless waste of time from start to finish.

Remember when National Lampoon made good films like "Animal House" and "Vacation"? Where did it go so horribly wrong?

1/10 all the way.

I feel that this movie is terrible. None of the parts were funny at all to me. Also, if the movie was set in Idaho, then why there is no snow and why the people are wearing summer clothes? People in Idaho do not wear that stuff during Thanksgiving. Since this movie was filmed in Canada, I feel that the movie should have been filmed in January, instead of warm weather season, or they could have change the location of the movie, where people wear summer stuff during Thanksgiving (like Tennessee or Mississippi or Alabama or Texas (to be filmed in Canada, if that's the case)). Also, I feel that the movie should have been made ten years ago with Chevy Chase. I think that it would have been a good movie with Chevy in there.

Grade: F