National Lampoon’s Vacation as Biting Social Commentary

Makes the movie funnier than ever

Photo by Adam Lautenbach. The Family Truckster from the 1983 movie National Lampoon’s Vacation, located at the Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois.

My husband and I recently re-watched the original Vacation for maybe the hundredth time, but this time, it was like I was watching a whole new movie. I used to think of Vacation as a sort of silly, slap-sticky movie with a few funny spots in it, but after surviving the Trump years, every second of Vacation was an…