Christmas Vacation has been a family tradition for years here. I have two boys who were in their early teens when it came out and they loved it. They wouldn't watch It's A Wonderful Life. Too sappy they said. being young boys I understood For all around funny movie we have quite a bit of the dialog memorized to The Princess Bride and somebody would always start repeating it on long trips in the car. It sounded better to me than "Are we there yet?"