Buckle up your seatbelts; it’s time for another Griswold family adventure. 32 years after the original National Lampoon’s Vacation film was released, comes the reboot to the series. It’s been 18 years since we last saw the Griswolds, in Vegas Vacation, which ended the original series.

This time it’s the son Rusty, now a husband and father played by Ed Helms, who is an unsuccessful pilot. His wife Debbie (Christina Applegate), and their two sons, the hopeless romantic and sensitive James (Skyler Gisondo) and the younger brat of a brother Kevin (Steele Stebbins) all long for a holiday. Wanting to reconnect better with his family, and reminiscing about his own childhood holidays, dad Rusty decides to relive that journey from the original film and go to Walley World. As expected, no one else in the family shares his enthusiasm.

They set off on their road trip, in a bright blue Albanian Tartan Prancerwith, which replaces the Wagon Queen Family Truckster station wagon from the original movie. The old Truckster does however make a cameo appearance later in the film.

Just like in the 1983 film, there is plenty of misfortune and mayhem along the way to Walley World, including getting stalked on the highway by a truck, being caught out on the Four Corners and nearly dying in a water rafting outing.

VACATION is the feature directing debut of writing duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein who also wrote Horrible Bosses and are set to write the screenplay for the 2017 Spider-Man reboot.

While the film had its funny moments, it lacked the charm and genius of the original 1983 film written by John Hughes.

There were just too many gross out scenes, sexual and pedophilia jokes that left a bad taste in the mouth, and the film is not suitable for very young audiences.

Even the appearance of Chris Hemsworth as the handsome brother in law and Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, the original Griswolds now the grandparents, do little to boost this film.

VACATION is now screening in cinemas.