Except it no longer has the National Lampoon moniker attached.

You can’t beat a good cheesy comedy from time to time. You know, the ones where you don’t have to do a lot of thinking, you just sit there in the movie theater or in front of the TV with a beer or a glass of wine enjoying what is channeling into your eye holes.

The Vacation films are perfect examples. They’re not big or clever, but they are light-hearted, and funny, and ultimately enjoyable. And they’re getting the reboot treatment as so many movie franchises are these days.

According to Variety, New Line has hired Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to write a new film for the Griswold family. The focus this time will be on Rusty, with Chevy Chase’s Clark making an appearance as the grandfather.

The studio sees the new film as closer in tone to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles than the previous Vacation films. But with Rusty heading back to Wally World with his family, there is obviously some throwback to the original films.

This isn’t actually new news, as it was already rumored last October. It’s even the same shifting around of characters, although it was being talked about as a sequel at the time rather than the series reboot it now seems to have become.

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