The Las Vegas of this movie has everything you expect from afar, the casinos, the resorts, the bougie lounge singer, etc. Vegas Vacation feels like it was written by someone who has never been to Las Vegas before, and that’s coming from someone (me) who has never been to Vegas before, outside of a three hour layover at the airport. Rusty (Ethan Embry), in particular, gets a lot to do as a teenager who can’t believe his luck when everything begins going his way. This is an ensemble cast, probably more than it used to be now that the kids are old enough to be played by adult performers. As the movie goes on, though, some of the other characters do get their time in the spotlight.
I found enough of it funny, and though what I’ve heard of Chase as a person isn’t the most romantic, he does have a certain charm as a comedian. There aren’t real stakes to this movie, but there don’t need to be. What I do know is that Chevy Chase gets a chance to be silly, he alienates his family in an attempt to maintain control of something increasingly chaotic, and in general a lot goes wrong until it’s made right in the end. The only movie of this series I have any strong recollection of is 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s the fourth installment in the “Vacation” series, and I have to assume many of the gags made reference to incidents I don’t remember. This is just like a greatest hits album, or maybe a cover band of a band I haven’t listened to in years. It’s a later installment in the Griswold story, yet another vacation in which we revisit Clark, Ellen, Cousin Eddie and, this time, the Griswold kids who were much older than last we saw them (8 years prior) and played by new actors. Vegas Vacation is fine, and that’s about it.
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