A cross-country road trip to Walley World becomes a brisk, raunchy, and campy family adventure.
Feel-good and crowd-pleasing, with big broad humor. A comfort watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Paramount+.
No surprises for an R: moderate sex and nudity, and some violence.
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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.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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