I dont see the reason for reviews to trash on the film.

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Joan Collins in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

The Flintstones and Rubbles meet Chip Rockefeller

How long is The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas?

Mark Addy

Stephen Baldwin

Kristen Johnston

William Hanna

Joseph Barbera

Deborah Kaplan

In this live-action prequel to The Flintstones (1994), the Flintstones and the Rubbles go on a trip to Rock Vegas, where Wilma Slaghoople is pursued by playboy Chip Rockefeller.

Brian Levant

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

Spare us &quot;Yogi Bear: The Movie.&quot; Please.

&quot;The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas&quot; is actually slightly more bearable than the truly horrible 1994 movie, but that really isn&apos;t saying much. Where the previous one suffered from chronically bad casting for the Flintstones and the Rubbles (except for Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma), this benefits from Stephen Baldwin and Jane &quot;Best reason to watch &apos;Ally McBeal&apos; not called Lucy Liu&quot; Krakowski making a far less annoying Barney and Betty than Rick Moranis and Rosie O&apos;Donnell (the latter the only major cast member to return here, in voice mode only). The movie also has a few nice little touches like pictures of the cartoon Fred and Barney handed out to people, and the specially modified Universal logo with the Earth only showing one continent behind the word &quot;Univershell&quot; (&quot;Did anyone else see those giant letters out there?&quot;).

Alan Cumming as the Great Gazoo (and a Mick Jagger-type rock star) is also one of the movie&apos;s pros... and indicative of its cons. Writers Deborah Kaplan &amp; Harry Elfont (&quot;Can&apos;t Hardly Wait,&quot; &quot;Josie and the Pussycats&quot;) and the late Jim Cash &amp; Jack Epps, Jr (&quot;Top Gun,&quot; &quot;Anaconda&quot;) go for too many cheap gags, have a wilful disregard for the show&apos;s mythology - Gazoo didn&apos;t arrive until Fred and Barney were both married with children, for starters (and as another poster rightly says, he crashlanded as opposed to being sent) - and don&apos;t really have much of a plot going for them. The movie&apos;s all as silly as that episode where the boys befriended &quot;Ann-Margrock&quot; without knowing who she was. 

Speaking of which, Ann-Margret (who guested on the TV show) returns to Bedrock to sing &quot;Viva Rock Vegas&quot; in a montage and over the credits, but her take isn&apos;t a patch on the BC-52&apos;s version of the theme song in the first one, and indeed the overall feeling of going down a level is everywhere - not just in the plot of Wilma&apos;s mum wanting her daughter (a miscast Kristen Johnston) to marry an uppercrust type (Thomas Gibson from &quot;Dharma &amp; Greg&quot;), but from the cast to the visual effects (Rhythm &amp; Hues aren&apos;t quite up to Industrial Light &amp; Magic&apos;s level) to the music (song-wise, that is; David Newman at least tries), the movie fits in all too well alongside the other losers directed by Brian Levant, he of &quot;Problem Child&quot; and &quot;Jingle All The Way&quot; infamy. And I still think James Belushi, not John Goodman or Mark Addy, IS Fred Flintstone.

At least the first one had Halle Berry and some puns in the credits (though this does have Jane Krakowski - hubba hubba). And no Joan Collins...

Home Video Trailer from Universal Studios Home Entertainment

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"The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" is actually slightly more bearable than the truly horrible 1994 movie, but that really isn't saying much. Where the previous one suffered from chronically bad casting for the Flintstones and the Rubbles (except for Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma), this benefits from Stephen Baldwin and Jane "Best reason to watch 'Ally McBeal' not called Lucy Liu" Krakowski making a far less annoying Barney and Betty than Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell (the latter the only major cast member to return here, in voice mode only). The movie also has a few nice little touches like pictures of the cartoon Fred and Barney handed out to people, and the specially modified Universal logo with the Earth only showing one continent behind the word "Univershell" ("Did anyone else see those giant letters out there?").

Alan Cumming as the Great Gazoo (and a Mick Jagger-type rock star) is also one of the movie's pros... and indicative of its cons. Writers Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont ("Can't Hardly Wait," "Josie and the Pussycats") and the late Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr ("Top Gun," "Anaconda") go for too many cheap gags, have a wilful disregard for the show's mythology - Gazoo didn't arrive until Fred and Barney were both married with children, for starters (and as another poster rightly says, he crashlanded as opposed to being sent) - and don't really have much of a plot going for them. The movie's all as silly as that episode where the boys befriended "Ann-Margrock" without knowing who she was. 

Speaking of which, Ann-Margret (who guested on the TV show) returns to Bedrock to sing "Viva Rock Vegas" in a montage and over the credits, but her take isn't a patch on the BC-52's version of the theme song in the first one, and indeed the overall feeling of going down a level is everywhere - not just in the plot of Wilma's mum wanting her daughter (a miscast Kristen Johnston) to marry an uppercrust type (Thomas Gibson from "Dharma & Greg"), but from the cast to the visual effects (Rhythm & Hues aren't quite up to Industrial Light & Magic's level) to the music (song-wise, that is; David Newman at least tries), the movie fits in all too well alongside the other losers directed by Brian Levant, he of "Problem Child" and "Jingle All The Way" infamy. And I still think James Belushi, not John Goodman or Mark Addy, IS Fred Flintstone.

At least the first one had Halle Berry and some puns in the credits (though this does have Jane Krakowski - hubba hubba). And no Joan Collins...

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