Clark's Childhood Home May Look Familiar

If Clark's childhood home in the old movies he found in the attic look familiar, it's because you've most likely seen them before! The house in the old tapes was the same house featured on Bewitched and also New Gidget. That house is part of what is known as the Warner Bros. backlot, also known as Blondie Street.

The rest of the Griswolds' neighborhood was filmed on a backlot as well. The house owned by the family's uptight neighbors, Todd and Margo, was also used by the character Roger Murtaugh and his family in Lethal Weapon.

Roger Ebert Didn't Enjoy The Film

Although the film has been considered a Christmas classic since its first release, not everyone fell in love with Christmas Vacation. Well-respected film reviewer Roger Ebert even gave the film a two-star review.

He described the film as "curious in how close it comes to delivering on its material: Sequence after sequence seems to contain all the necessary material, to be well on the way toward a payoff, and then it somehow doesn't work." It doesn't appear that Ebert's opinion had much influence on the public's opinion of the movie.