I feel this is going to one of these reviews that as I write the percentage score in the top right corner of my screen is going to look big, way too big for the review I am about to deliver. But as I haven’t written it yet I will play this with a straight bat.
63% seems very generous for this pile of stink, I may have just been pleased to see Ellen & Clark return in the form of Chevy Chase, Beverley D’Angelo and Randy Quaid had returned for another movie. It must terrify them that their kids are completely unrecognisable to them. Let alone swapping in ages with the boy being older than the girl then the boy again. Rusty was rusty and then turned into Leonard from Big Bang and then to someone unrecognisable again. Those facts aside this film is made for laughs which it fails to make many people do. Likewise, for me also who I think enjoyed this movie not for the movie I was actually watching but in nostalgia of the other films I am not watching whilst this is on.
The plot if you can call it one revolves around the family going to Las Vegas for yet another vacation. The usual dysfunctional family end up at the point where they are ready to kill each other and decides to go their own way for a vacation. Audrey the daughter has got involved with Quaid’s daughter and they end up becoming stripers. Rusty the son has developed a knack of winning at gambling and ends up with four cars all from the benefit of a fake id from a Frank Sinatra impersonator. Ellen is off fraternising with Wayne Newton and Clerk has become addicted to gambling and unlike Rusty he’s rubbish at it and loses all the family’s money but is that a big surprise? No, was this film worth it? Honestly no probably not, the original ones are all grey and crusty around the edges but they are so much better than this 1997 effort. They should of buried the story there but I believe they even attempted to add yet another one after this one but I am not going to go there.
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