The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) * A movie review by Serdar Yegulalp Copyright 2000 by Serdar Yegulalp
Miscellaneous thoughts noted down during the running time of "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas":
1. According to the movie's press material, four writers received credit for this film. Why any of them were needed, or what they contributed, is a mystery to me. Collectively they don't even add up to one good one.
2. Jokes about dinosaurs passing gas are not funny. The only time I have seen anything remotely amusing about a giant creature passing gas was when its name was Gamera.
3. Names which are plays on words, which was most of the stock-in-trade with the Flintstones animated cartoon, are only funny up to a point. In this film we get "Mick Jagged and the..." -- are you holding your breath? -- "...Stones." Chortle, chortle. Even children, the primary audience for this film, are going to find this movie tiresome.
4. Ann-Margaret embarrassed herself badly enough as a singer in "Tommy". History repeats itself in this film.
5. Mark Addy (of "The Full Monty") isn't bad as Fred Flintstone, but he is faced with the hopeless task of being interesting in a movie that defies interest. Barney, played by Stephen Baldwin, looks as though he would be more at home playing his trigger-happy character from "The Usual Suspects".
6. Live-action movies made from cartoons are often painfully bad, for one very simple reason. What we see in animation we can forgive a great deal of; what we see in live-action is utterly unsparing. "Inspector Gadget" was an object lesson this movie has not learned a thing from.
7. A sure measure of desperation on the part of the filmmakers: a subplot about an alien who has no purpose in the film other than to eat up running time. I never imagined 90 minutes would be so difficult to burn.
8. A good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie. A bad movie never lets you forget this. "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" is a very bad movie.
9. Joan Collins should retire.
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