Vegas Vacation
Year: 1997
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Jerry Weintraub Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Stephen Kessler
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Miriam Flynn
Crew: Stephen Kessler (Director), Elisa Bell (Screenplay), Susan Ekins (Executive Producer), Matty Simmons (Executive Producer), Jerry Weintraub (Producer), Joel McNeely (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 93 minutes
Release: Feb 13, 1997
IMDb: 6.03/10 by 658 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 25,000,000
Revenue: 36,400,360

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' 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.