Five films about the same family, and Rusty and Audrey are played by a different pair of actors in every single one.
Release order, all five. The running joke is that the children change actors every time, so watching them in order is the only way it lands.
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The original, and the template. John Hughes wrote it from his own short story about a family drive to a theme park that turns out to be shut.
Skip to here if you only want one more. It is the one people rewatch every year, it is the last one Hughes wrote, and it does not need the European film in between.
The handover. Ed Helms plays Rusty as an adult, dragging his own family on the same trip, with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo now the grandparents. It makes the recasting joke explicit.
Then what? European Vacation from 1985 and Vegas Vacation from 1997 fill the gaps and neither is essential. Christmas Vacation 2, from 2003, is a television film about Cousin Eddie with neither Chevy Chase nor Beverly D'Angelo in it. Hotel Hell Vacation is a fourteen minute advert from 2010, not a film. And the wider National Lampoon direct to video catalogue has nothing to do with this family at all.
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