At work recently, a conversation drifted to the topic of good scenes in bad movies. Immediately I thought of Vegas Vacation, the 1997 movie that killed the Vacation franchise for almost 20 years.
It’s far and away the weakest film in the series, but still has its moments (usually when Randy Quaid is onscreen as ne’er-do-well Cousin Eddie). In the film Chevy Chase and family go to Vegas for vacation and all the usual hijinx ensue.
In the movie, Chase loses a large amount of cash playing blackjack against croupier Wallace “Inconceivable!” Shawn. Those scenes are pretty good. But my favorite part in the movie (other than all the scenes with Marisol Nichols in short skirts) was when Chase and Quaid go to a very low-rent casino in a desperate attempt to break even on his earlier gambling losses.
Harrison Wintergreen 