Film review: VACATION, from ‘Built For Speed’

The original National Lampoon’s Vacation from 1983 was an amiable, occasionally risqué comic farce that cheerfully and amusingly exploited the trauma of family holidays and in particular road trips. Building on an enjoyably silly performance from lead Chevy Chase as slightly deranged patriarch Clark Griswold, that film generated enough good will to warrant a number of sequels of admittedly decreasing

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Film review: WE’RE THE MILLERS, from Built For Speed

We’re the Millers is one of this year’s guilty pleasures.  Even though it’s low-brow, formulaic and implausible, it’s still an enjoyable comedy.  The film bubbles away in an amiable, mildly risqué fashion that recalls the National Lampoon Vacation movies.  Its trump card is a fine cast of comedy actors led by Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston whose well-honed comic timing

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