National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) | How Woke Is It?

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National Lampoon's European Vacation1985

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What We Think

National Lampoon’s European Vacation is about as non-woke as it gets by modern standards, sticking to broad, goofy humor and family-centric chaos without any ideological undercurrent. It’s a time capsule from an era before Hollywood got obsessed with box-checking.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

National Lampoon's European Vacation is a classic 1980s comedy focused on family mishaps abroad. Characters are written for laughs rather than to fill identity quotas. There’s no forced representation or ideological meddling. The focus remains on the Griswold family’s slapstick misadventures, not on pushing modern identity narratives.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film centers strongly on the traditional family unit, with typical father-mother dynamics and pokes fun at social customs, rarely at the expense of timeless values. There's no subversion of gender roles or cultural revisionism. Its style of humor even feels a little too non-woke for modern tastes.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative perspectives really aren’t addressed in this movie, but no one is mocked for being traditional. The Griswolds embody a very average American family, without any ideological preaching or villainizing. If anything, the film simply enjoys poking fun at cultures and the Griswolds’ own cluelessness.

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