What is the iRankMovies score for Vacation?

Name: Vacation
Director: John Francis Daley
Genre: adventure, comedy
Released: 2015
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 6.2

Vacation has an iRankMovies score of 47.2/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Vacation (2015)

What could go wrong?

Release:2015

Runtime:1h 39m

Country:United States

Director:John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein

Language:English

Genre

AdventureComedy

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Keywords

Route 66VacationGrand CanyonDysfunctional Family Road TripSequelFamily VacationAmusement Park

iRank47

Vacation rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.2/10· 131K votes

Rotten Tomatoes27%

Metacritic34%

TMDb6.306/10· 4K votes

With 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.2/10 on IMDb and 34/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Vacation

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

Cast of Vacation

Ed Helms
as Rusty Griswold
Christina Applegate
as Debbie Griswold
Skyler Gisondo
as James Griswold
Steele Stebbins
as Kevin Griswold
Chris Hemsworth
as Stone Crandall
Leslie Mann
as Audrey Griswold
Chevy Chase
as Clark Griswold
Beverly D'Angelo
as Ellen Griswold
Charlie Day
as Chad
Catherine Missal
as Adena
Ron Livingston
as Ethan
Norman Reedus
as Trucker

Vacation facts

Budget: $31M
Box office: $104.4M

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Dysfunctional family vacation premise delivers comedy of errors and physical humor
•Childhood memory nostalgia combined with amusement park setting creates broad appeal
•Family vacation theme resonates with ensemble comedy character dynamics

What the audience disliked

•Comedy writing relies on situational humor without developing character relationships
•Airplane pilot and contrived plot mechanics undermine comedy narrative coherence