Vegas Vacation Reviews
Sin Magazine
Despite Chevy Chase's decent effort trying to revive the Griswold franchise, VEGAS VACATION is just a big disappointment. This one could have just premiered on TV, as it resembles that sort of mediocrity.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Common Sense Media
Lame National Lampoon with usual innuendo, drinking.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Filmcritic.com
...the Griswolds bring down the house.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
It's a bad sign when National Lampoon wants its name out of the title.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Top CriticThe subplots involving D'Angelo and Newton and Ethan Embry -- the Griswolds' son, who can't stop winning -- have their charms.
A tepid fourth entry in the popular 1980s series that is decidedly showing its age.
Fantastica Daily
The fourth and weakest trip with the hapless Griswolds.
| Original Score: 2/5
I'll lay you 3-to-1 odds that by the end of this flick even fans will be thinking that this wasn't a trip worth taking.
There is nothing more memorable about Vegas Vacation than the flatness of the writing in Elisa Bell's script and the uninspired direction of first-timer Stephen Kessler.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
It's simply so lacking in attempts at humor that Chase might have had a better chance at coming up with a winner playing a slot machine.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Why, if [Chevy] Chase is such a funny guy, does he make such unfunny movies?
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| Original Score: 1/4
The film's only life is provided by Randy Quaid, back as Ellen's redneck cousin.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
It's not really awful - it's just dull.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Aisle Seat
The central idea of the series -- even normal families aren't normal -- apparently isn't completely exhausted yet. I'm surprised at how much I liked this film.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The first half hour in particular is clogged with wheezing routines that appear to have no punchlines.
Chase unrolls his tired collection of mugs and stumbles, while some truly funny performers - particularly Sid Caesar and the usually reliable Wallace Shawn - are wasted in do-nothing roles.
Boxoffice Magazine
So far from funny it's actually painful to sit through.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
