I have seen all the National Lampoon's movies and this In my honest opinion has the ugliest AND most annoying Griswold children in it. Seriously look at them!!! .. And who can not mention Audrey's annoying voice!!!
It's really too bad the original Rusty and Audrey couldn't play them in this movie. It would have been so much better!
They were pretty annoying but that was the point. As for ugly ... well that's an opinion, not a fact, but I tend to agree with the OP.
It's funny how the kids age from movie to movie. Audrey seems to get older from Vacation through to Christmas Vacation, then gets younger (and beautiful) in Vegas. Rusty gets older in the second movie, then much younger in Christmas Vacation, then older again. Talk about Benjamin Button syndrome!
I didn't mind the boy, but the girl nearly ruined the whole movie for me.
shareI agree. In fact, I watched the movie yesterday and came here to see if there was a thread about this Audrey and Rusty. I think they were the worst ones in all of the Vacation movies!!
shareJust watched the movie - Rusty was meh, but Audrey was AWFUL. I could not stand her! How she got a guy who looks like Jack (William Zabka) is beyond me. She was annoying with her voice, personality, and appearance. I imagine that she was cast because they could save some money by not having to follow child labor laws (regulated hours, providing on site teachers, etc.). That was a very poor decision.
shareAudrey in the previous movie looked like a normal girl.
Audrey in this movie looks like a child with an adult man's face.
What the heck were they thinking?
"I have seen all the National Lampoon's movies and this In my honest opinion has the ugliest AND most annoying Griswold children in it."
That is not possible.
This movie calls the family "Griswald", not "Griswold". So this movie can't have 'the ugliest GriswOld children' in it.
It only has 'Griswald children' in it, you see.
Come to think of it, they're not really 'children' per se, they're supposed to be TEENagers.
Teenagers are no longer children, though their adulthood usually starts around the 19th year (when you are 18 years old, that's when your 19th year begins - when you turn 1, your second year begins, and so on).
So even from that perspective, even 'Griswald children' don't really exist in this movie.
I am too lazy to edit the upper half of my post, however, so try to understand the full meaning anyway.
As an interesting trivia:
IMDb erroneously lists the family names as "Griswold" on the main page of this movie, but still has this part in the trivia section:
"In this film, the family name is Griswald, with an "a". In the other Vacation films, their name is Griswold. "
IMDb is not only full of wrong information, misspellings, 'american typos' and mistakes, errors and goofs, but also seems to be completely inconsistent and in disagreement with itself..
Christmas Vacation were the worst Audrey and Rusty. They certainly didn't bring anything to the movie. Barely any sibling antics, they really weren't funny, and the Christmas film pushed them into the background more than the other 3 films! European kids were much better than Christmas! Heck, Ethan Embry and Marisol Nochols were better than the Christmas kids!
So: a realistic, down to earth show..which is completely off the wall swarming with magic robots?!
I gotta disagree, I felt J. Lewis was a decent Audrey, and the Rusty was ok. This imho were the worst Griswald (Or is it Griswold?) kids. Honestly, I felt this was the weakest of the 4, and even weaker than the remake. (Vacation)
shareHow could J Lewis be a decent Audrey? She didn't bring anything worthy to the film. What made her stand out over other Audrey's? How was she even a typical (and to a degree slightly crazy) Griswold child? A few lines? Being frozen??? (Which wasn't even funny)...
Why would you rank her highly?
Same for rusty in Xmas -- just not strong at all. The three other rusty's were much better than Xmas.
So: a realistic, down to earth show..which is completely off the wall swarming with magic robots?!
This is the worst of the old chevy vacation movies. Nothing lands and nothing is true to what it was. The kids sucked. Especially, the girl.
shareThe daughter got the role because her dad was a commercial director. Way to ruin movies. Hate Hollywood's nepotism.
From her bio:
Despite diabetes ending a promising future in athletics when she was just ten years old, Dana gamely threw herself into acting when still in her early teen years, taking her mother's maiden name as her ...
How the hell can a child with her figure had a future in athletics and end it by the age of 10??? What was it; sugar snacks eating olympics?
She was destroyed by her own tits.
The daughter got the role because her dad was a commercial director. Way to ruin movies. Hate Hollywood's nepotism.
Yeah, the kids were real turds in this one. They killed the movie.
sharebraces do that but a lot of the people they had play the other roles [especially in England] were as slovenly if not moreso. good god, I know they couldn't get the actual royal family to play those roles but COME ON! Diana looked like hell! that lady who Clark climbs into bed with by accident... ugh!
the only ones who looked more or less normal in England happen to be well known actors: Eric Idol [aka Leapy Lee] and Ballard Berkley [Major Gowen] Robbie Coltrane [the guy who goes into the bathroom while Ellen has her eyes covered]is known for Harry Potter.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.