National Lampoon's Vacation Collection

Chevy Chase

Beverly D'Angelo

Randy Quaid

Ethan Embry

Marisol Nichols

Miriam Flynn

Shae D'Lyn

Wayne Newton

Wallace Shawn

Siegfried Fischbacher

Roy Horn

Sid Caesar

Corinna Harney

Christie Brinkley

Juliette Brewer

Zachariah Moyes

Shannah Laumeister Stern

C.C. Costigan

Wendy Kaufman

Jerry Weintraub

Larry Hankin

Hayley Mortison

Billie Perkins

Vanessa Bednar

Alana Austin

Jeffrey Donovan

Sharon Mendel

Frank Washko Jr.

Joe Lacoco

Ruth Gillis

JoAnn Bush

Elisa Bell

Joel McNeely

Stephen Kessler

Seth Flaum

William A. Fraker

Susan Ekins

Matty Simmons

Chris L. Spellman

Carole Brown-James

Thomas Valentine

Joyce Westmore

Allan Graf

David L. Snyder

Marvin G. Westmore

Peggy Semtob

Marian Green

Casey O'Neill

Lisa McCullough

Jeannie Epper

Gene LeBell

Bob Ducsay

Lynn Salvatori

R.J. Louis

Jack Ziga

Robin R. Oliver

Stephen Robinette

Brian Avery

Michael Adams

Steve Blalock

Perry Barndt

Phil Chong

Buff Brady

Jamie A. Keyser

Ken Blazer

Michelle Burkette

Paul Borne

Michael Owen

Debi Parker

Dorenda Moore

Dana Reed

John Robotham

John S. Platt

Dennis Scott

Kaye Wade

Anthony G. Schmidt

George P. Wilbur

Lee Whittaker

David E. Diano

Doug Pentek

Chris Haarhoff

Barry Lather

Comedy

Vegas Vacation

Jerry Weintraub Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

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

<em>'Vegas Vacation'</em> 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 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.

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