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My ten word review:
Comedy that still holds up, even all these years later.
Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/QzlQnWap2-g
Vegas Vacation
- Comedy
2/13/1997
93
PG
This time the Griswolds are on a roll.
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
- Director:
- Writer:
- Revenue:
- $36,400,360
- Budget:
- $25,000,000
Videos
Cast
Chevy ChaseClark Griswold
Beverly D'AngeloEllen Griswold- Randy QuaidCousin Eddie
- Ethan EmbryRussell 'Rusty' Griswold
- Marisol NicholsAudrey Griswold
- Miriam FlynnCousin Catherine
- Shae D'LynCousin Vicki
- Wayne NewtonHimself
- Wallace ShawnMarty
- Siegfried FischbacherSiegfried
- Roy HornRoy
- Sid CaesarMr Ellis
- Corinna HarneyGirl at Blackjack Table
- Christie BrinkleyWoman in Ferrari
Juliette BrewerCousin Ruby Sue- Zachariah MoyesCousin Denny
Reviews
r96sk
'Vegas Vacation' is decent fare for this franchise, I think I just about enjoyed it. It does go through peaks and troughs, there are some uninteresting moments but by and large what I was viewing was passable entertainment. The Vegas setting and shenanigans keep it watchable, the dam scenes are good too.
Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo are back yet again, as is Randy Quaid. I still don't really rate the latter's character all that much, pretty annoying in fact (and not in the intended sense); Chase's Clark is supposed to be <i>the</i> idiot here, so always feels odd to have an even bigger idiot.
The more sentimental conclusion doesn't totally land, at least in terms of how it's portrayed. It felt watching that it was attempting to be...