Last Vegas (2013)
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Critics Consensus: The cast of Last Vegas keep things amiably watchable, but the film is mostly a mellower Hangover retread for the older set.
Critics Consensus: The cast of Last Vegas keep things amiably watchable, but the film is mostly a mellower Hangover retread for the older set.
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The ensemble comedy follows four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single. LAST VEGAS is being produced by Laurence Mark (Julie & Julia, Dreamgirls) and Amy Baer. Nathan Kahane and Lawrence Grey are serving as executive producers. Good Universe's Matt Leonetti is co-producing.- Rating:
- PG-13 (for sexual content and language)
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Directed By:
- Jon Turteltaub
- In Theaters:
- Nov 1, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Jan 28, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $63.9M
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Cast
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Michael Douglas
as Billy -
Robert De Niro
as Paddy -
Morgan Freeman
as Archie -
Kevin Kline
as Sam -
Mary Steenburgen
as Diana -
Jerry Ferrara
as Dean
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Critic Reviews for Last Vegas
All Critics (133) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (71)
It's a celebration of something the movies never celebrate anymore: being old.
The film, directed by Jon Turteltaub, has an easy but mediocre charm.
The actors perform with multiple safety nets and the closest the film ever comes to taking a risk is having Freeman dance to a cover of Earth Wind & Fire's "September."
"This is the like "The Hangover Part 43."
It's bad enough when Hollywood casts women over the age of 30 as grandmothers-in-waiting. Now we have to endure an onslaught of famous veteran actors complaining about their hips.
A preholiday trifle that's mildly risqué and a lot sentimental.
Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline may all be pushing or past 70, but there's a surprisingly jaunty spring to their step in this breezy comedy.
"(It) could have been and probably should have been more accurately titled 'Jokes about Elderly Aches, Pains and Complaints: The Movie.'"
Mercifully, the actors are not degrading themselves here - they only stoop as low as mere slumming.
Five Oscar-winning actors working for a paycheck on a film that lacks a genuinely funny backbone.
It's far from perfect but there's a layer of sentimentality that makes Last Vegas easier to digest.
It's Old Men Gone Mild in this ultra-predictable, decently funny mashing of The Hangover and The Bucket List.
Jon Turteltaub's ''old men behaving badly'' romp does more than merely pander to expectation. Beyond the noise of the strip lies a buddy comedy with heart.
Belly-laugh material it isn't, but Last Vegas fits the prescription for a happily undemanding piece of entertainment.
No surprise to see Robert De Niro here. Write him a big enough cheque and he'll do the school play of your choice.
With stars of this calibre, the movie can't be all bad, and it ain't. It's just hollow
Not one of Fogelman's good scripts. Like The Guilt Trip, that relied on the casting of Seth Rogan & Barbra Streisand, this flimsy premise of four 60 something guys heading to Vegas for a last hurrah is counting on star power with little else to offer
The mild misadventures and late-life epiphanies don't so much suggest a Geritol 'Hangover' as an all-male special episode of 'The Golden Girls.'
Last Vegas is double AND nothing. It wins big with Freeman's cool and Kline's surgeon-like timing and flails miserably with everything associated with relationship between Douglas and DeNiro.
A funny, touching and surprisingly fleet-footed comedy about a quartet of 60-plus male friends who are determined to grow old (dis)gracefully.
It's one thing for Morgan Freeman to coach an ignorant young buck on respect for the ladies, another for the same flick to ogle them, patronise them and position them as plot balm to reconcile two male characters.
De Niro, Douglas, Freeman and Kline set about Last Vegas with the panache of a lifetime's experience.
[Michael] Douglas's ability to laugh at himself by proposing at a funeral is priceless ( ... ) the film succeeds mostly through the warmth of its camaraderie overpowering the adult tone of its humour.
More than just a geriatric cash-in on The Hangover, this likeable crowd-pleaser is surprisingly funny and enjoyable. It's great to see Morgan Freeman playing drunk, while Kevin Kline steals the show.
The one ray of sunshine: surely anything with the word "Last" in the title is incapable of spawning a sequel?
Far from being liberating, the film ends up swinging two fingers towards the retirement home.
Audience Reviews for Last Vegas
When i first heard that these four actors were going to be in a movie together, i thought it was going to be legendary and i got exactly what i wanted from this film. It's true and dazzling five star entertainment with some of the best actors around. One of the funniest, freshest and most enjoyable movies of 2013. It's an utterly wonderful, laugh-out-loud funny and heartfelt film featuring for the first time together Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and Michael Douglas. These four are a dream team, they have such outrageous and brilliant chemistry and character development together. These great actors still got it, and shows the older they get, the better they get. These four Oscar winners make this film one of the big events of the year. A buddy movie that will appeal to younger and older audiences. An excellent movie that has true heart and magic in it. I truly and utterly loved it from start to finish. Director, Jon Turtletaub has crafted his best piece of work in years since Phenomenon. A hilarious and tremendously entertaining great time at the movies. This is pure fun that no one could pass up.
MoreSuper Reviewer
You would think a film like this, that rips off of almost every Hollywood comedy for it's story, (mainly "The Hangover") that it would be very dry and forgettable, but it has many heartfelt moments that surprised me, and a group of old guys saying they are "too old for any of this stuff anymore" and "we need to appreciate life more" seems too much, but it's not. I really enjoyed watching "Last Vegas." It's not the greatest film in the world and I may be tired of seeing these actors over and over again, but they do the best with what they are given, and it is a pretty funny turnout. It's written well enough as far as comedies go, and the performances are great of course, making it a fun ride. "Last Vegas" would be a good recommendation if you are drinking with a bunch of people and want to throw a movie on.
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***
Whenever someone would ask me about this movie(even though I hadn't seen it) I would describe it as "Hangover with old people". That isn't exactly wrong, but it's not right at all. What should be a stupid geriatric comedy with lots of Viagra jokes is actually a very funny, touching comedy. The stars really make this movie better than what it should have been. The premise is simple. 4 old friends(as in been friends for 60 years) reunite in Vegas for a bachelor party/wedding weekend. The friends are played by Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline. These 4 are just awesome, even in their old age. They also have great chemistry. You can really believe that they have been friends all these years. The movie is sometimes silly and has the typical drama, but it works. It really does. Kind of like how I expected "Grudge Match" to be awful, this really goes above expectations. Good flick that I'm sure people of all ages(especially the older crowd) will enjoy. On a side note, I watched this using a new service called M-GO, and I gotta say it worked great! If you haven't tried it out(it's on roku's), give it a shot, gets the Everett seal of approval.
Super Reviewer
Amusingly superb Movie with a few of the greats, it would be a great coming of Age movie if they weren't already in there 60's!
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Last Vegas Quotes
- Maid of Honor:
- You don't want to have sex with me?
- Sam:
- Oh, oh, no, no, no, I do, I do. Oh, God, I want to have sex with you. A lot of it. It would be spectacular. It would be the most spectacular thing that's happened to me in 25 years. But. The thing is whenever something spectacular happens to me, first thing I want to do is tell my wife about it, and, after 40 years of marriage, if I can't tell her about something wonderful that happened to me, it sort of stops being wonderful.
- Archie:
- These Red Bull/vodkas are strange. I feel like I'm getting drunk and electrocuted at the same time!
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