{"id":36407,"date":"2015-07-30T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T03:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=36407"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:11:10","slug":"new-releases-july-31-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/30\/new-releases-july-31-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: July 31, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vacation<\/a>1. Vacation (Opened Wednesday, Warner Brothers\/New Line, 3,411 Theaters, 99 Minutes, Rated R for crude and sexual content and language throughout, and brief graphic nudity, Rotten Tomatoes Rating at press time: 26% Fresh<\/a> [84 Reviews]): <\/strong>So, is this a remake, a sequel or both? If it’s the former, I dread the inevitable remakes of the John Hughes classics that will surely come. If it’s a sequel, okay, that would be kind of inventive. But I think it’s the latter, which is problematic to say the least.<\/p>\n

The basic plot is the same–a man takes his dysfunctional family on a cross-country vacation to the mythical Wally World from the first film—but it seems that they try to up the ante this time around. Now it’s Rusty (Ed Helms, because he’s a bigger star than Anthony Michael Hall or Johnny Galecki, I guess) instead of Clark. Instead of the gorgeous supermodel flirting with dad while driving on the highway, she gets hit by an oncoming tractor trailer. Instead of eating a sandwich with dog pee on it, they whole family wallows in raw sewage.<\/p>\n

But bigger isn’t always better, especially when the original still stands up well today.<\/p>\n