Vegas Vacation

2/13/19971h 33m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ This time the Griswolds are on a roll. ~

Overview:

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:

Stephen Kessler

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$25,000,000.00

Revenue:

$36,400,360.00

Key words:

gambling
chaos
roulette
las vegas
family holiday

Cast

Chevy Chase

~ as ~

Clark Griswold

Beverly D'Angelo

~ as ~

Ellen Griswold

Randy Quaid

~ as ~

Cousin Eddie

Ethan Embry

~ as ~

Russell 'Rusty' Griswold

Marisol Nichols

~ as ~

Audrey Griswold

Miriam Flynn

~ as ~

Cousin Catherine

Shae D'Lyn

~ as ~

Cousin Vicki

Wayne Newton

~ as ~

Himself

Wallace Shawn

~ as ~

Marty

Siegfried Fischbacher

~ as ~

Siegfried

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Reviews (2)

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SierraKiloBravo
Written 4 year(s) ago
6
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
r96sk
Written 4 month(s) ago
7
'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 the 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 super sensitive about family and love for each other, but these aren't the sort of movies where that fits. The Griswolds are dysfunctional, not lovable or relatable.

Still, this is better than I thought it was going to be; especially with the disappearance of the National Lampoon name and the eight-year gap from the previous entry.