Retro Cinema: Vegas Vacation

Published: August 30, 2007, 9:06 am

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Filed under: Comedy, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, Family Films, Home Entertainment, Remakes and Sequels, Summer Movies, Retro Cinema You guys are growing up so fast, I hardly recognize you anymore! -- Clark W. Griswold (Chevy Chase) Before the Griswolds head out on yet another vacation, Clark speaks these words to his children, a sly (for this movie, anyway) jab at the fact that the Griswold kids have been played by four different sets of actors in four different films. He might as well have been speaking for the series itself. Watching this movie again for the first time since its theatrical release, I hardly recognize Vegas Vacation as a Vacation film. If European Vacation was a disappointment, Vegas Vacation is a crying shame -- a sad, laughless cash-in devoid of wit, charm, and signs that anyone is doing anything more than grabbing a paycheck. It's the kind of bad that casts a negative light on the good Vacation films that came before. In short, it

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