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Such was the unexpectedly heart-warming climax to a thoroughly manic chase after the biggest prize ever offered in the U.S. The award had swollen to epic size because no winner had been declared in seven successive plays of New York's Lotto 48 game. As the jackpot climbed first to $23 million, then $33.5 million and finally to its peak, serpentine lines of ticket buyers formed all over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people...
...same is true for funnyman John Candy. As the perverted older brother in Splash, he added life and silly comic wit to what was otherwise a fun, but not necessarily funny story. In Vacation, his brief appearance provided a welcome relief to Chevy Chase's not so funny slapstick...
Summer Rental seems like a film Chevy Chase would make. It comes complete with Jack Chester (Candy) as the anxiety ridden father, and his caricature family, all of whom are off to Florida for a month-long stay in a summer beach house. One enters the theater hoping that Candy can pull the stunt off better than Chase ever did, but leaves with the feeling that this movie would have been better with Candy cast as one of the sidekicks...
...since then, many of Chase's movies have been falling down with him. While the novelty and stupidity of the first Vocation made it mildly successful and slightly humourous, it was certainly not fit for a sequel. European Vocation, less new and considerably dumber than the original, makes it all only too obvious: the sight of Chevy Chase and his family falling down in various countries is not inherently funny...
...rest of this film is poor slapstick. Acting uncoordinated and uneducated for two hours may make you smile once or twice, but it just isn't funny. Chase's most successful film in recent months, rtetch teatured him as a clever journalist who played off of other people's stupidity rather than his own. Audiences want heroes these day, not dupes. That's why Eddie Murphy just bought his fifth Rolls. If Chase is to retain a respectable piece of the humor market, he should drop the meaningless, foolish and disjointed antics concentrating on outwitting others rather than prostrating himself...