This is one vacation that went off the rails from the outset.
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01/01/00
Vegas Vacation (1997)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:4
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.7/10
Synopsis: This time out, the Griswolds test their oft-ill-fated vacation luck in America's newest family playground, fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada! Slapstick hilarity ensues.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Christie Brinkley
Reviews for Vegas Vacation
Top Critic...the Griswolds bring down the house.
08/02/09
It's a bad sign when National Lampoon wants its name out of the title.
07/21/09
The subplots involving D'Angelo and Newton and Ethan Embry -- the Griswolds' son, who can't stop winning -- have their charms.
07/21/09
A tepid fourth entry in the popular 1980s series that is decidedly showing its age.
03/26/09
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06/24/06
The fourth and weakest trip with the hapless Griswolds.
10/06/05
No review available.
09/27/05
A high colonic for the brain.
07/05/04
Stay home!
09/21/03
No review available.
08/22/03
To the legions who have returned as losers from the glitzy playgrounds of the Nevada desert can now be added the people responsible for Vegas Vacation.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
02/16/03
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.
01/22/02
Top CriticThere 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.
02/14/01
Top CriticMany gags from the previous movies are repeated
01/01/00
It's not really awful - it's just dull.
01/01/00
Full of jokes that fall flat.
01/01/00
The film's only life is provided by Randy Quaid, back as Ellen's redneck cousin.
01/01/00
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