‘A Christmas Story Christmas’ Seems Extra Like A ‘Christmas Trip’ Sequel

However Ralphie’s self-imposed calls for to craft an ideal Christmas, inevitably resulting in slapstick chaos, is mainly what occurs with Clark Griswold in Christmas Trip. Ralphie’s life appears distinctly Clark-esque, not simply because he’s impossibly struggling to host a giant household Christmas, however now he has a younger sizzling spouse and a son and a daughter. And the trailer has a number of particular callbacks, to not A Christmas Story plot factors however ones borrowed from Christmas Trip, corresponding to a deadly sledding scene –

And a bit by which Ralphie can’t match his big Christmas tree in the lounge – which, once more, wasn’t a factor in A Christmas Story. Certain, his dad blew a fuse when he plugged within the lights, however he by no means had a comically outsized tree – that was, very memorably, a Clark Griswold downside. 

Hopefully, this isn’t paving the best way for a shock, Christmas-ruining cameo from Randy Quaid.

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