The new reboot/sequel “Vacation” is all too true to the experience of taking a long family trip: there are a few special moments you’ll remember and talk about later, but for the most part, it’s a featureless, repetitive voyage that can’t be over soon enough.
Given its pedigree — writer-directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein previously perpetrated the screenplays of “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” and both “Horrible Bosses” — “Vacation” does occasionally spring to life, delivering the kind of ouch-inducing humor of personal humiliation and bad luck that we’ve come to know from the ongoing adventures of the Griswold family.