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Vacation - reviewed.

Vacation is one of the movies of 2015 that I was looking forward to seeing.  I thought it'd be nice to see a continuation of the National Lampoon 'Vacation' series.  Granted, I've only recently seen the European Vacation --- which was a fairly awful movie -- but the original Vacation and Christmas Vacation were both very good.   I've seen Las Vegas Vacation  as well.  From what I recall, it was only okay. Christmas Vacation was probably my favorite of the bunch.  It's one of those movies that's on my yearly 'must watch in December' list. So this new version, whether it's was an attempted reboot or a sequel, would be good.  Or so I thought. Unfortunately, this was more of a remake than a sequel -- and not a very good one at that.  Sure, there were some differences, as Ed Helms' character, Rusty Griswold, points out in one scene: "The original vacation had  a  boy  and a  girl. This one has two boys." ...