National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: parents' guide

Mostly cartoonish slapstick: falls from ladders and the roof, a car wedged under a truck, a squirrel rampage, an explosion, a kidnapped boss and armed police. A cat chews a wire and is electrocuted, leaving a scorch mark.

One f-word and roughly eleven s-words, plus bitch, asshole, dick and frequent misuse of God's and Jesus' names. A little girl repeats a crude phrase, and someone flips a middle finger.

Clark flirts with a lingerie clerk and daydreams about her stripping at a pool, with a brief side view of a breast. Plenty of crude sexual jokes, a joke about a dog that humps, and a couple kissing in bed.

Adults drink beer, wine and eggnog and are shown drunk, cousin Eddie almost always has a beer, characters smoke cigarettes and cigars, and Clark's father jokes about leaning on Jack Daniel's to survive the holidays.

Mild. A squirrel bursting out of the tree, Clark in a hockey mask wielding a chainsaw, and armed police storming the house are played for laughs but could startle small children.