Is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation actually good?

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation sits in the 83.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.5% of them.

How does National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation lands in the 81.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation's score based on?

393 calibrated reviewers stand behind National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation's score.

1989

global pct

83.5

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Name: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1989

Scored from 393 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

83.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

393 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Clark Griswold is determined to give his extended family a perfect, old-fashioned Christmas at home in the suburbs. As relatives descend on the house and his long-awaited holiday bonus fails to arrive, a cascade of escalating disasters tests his cheerful resolve.

Released in 1989, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

393 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 411 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 393
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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