Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

Writer-director Andrew Bergman is capable of funny, funny stuff, but this movie runs out of jokes long before it runs out of comic ideas. The result is a series of comedy concepts that never get past the one-liner stage and are distinctly unsatisfying. Still, there is plenty to be amused by in this story of a reluctant bridegroom (Nicolas Cage) who finally agrees to marriage, only to lose his fiancée (Sarah Jessica Parker) in a crooked poker game to a professional gambler (James Caan). The rest of the movie deals with his frantic attempt to get his fiancée back, while coping with a Vegas in the throes of an Elvis-impersonator convention. That's the funniest thing about the whole movie (most notably the team of parachuting Elvises at the end), but even that is drawn out in ways that are more clever than laughter inducing. --Marshall Fine Amazon.com

Pretty funny when it came out, not so much now

A young Nicolas Cage and an even younger Sarah Jessica Parker play for laughs in this romantic caper that seemed pretty funny about 18 years ago when it debuted. Time has eroded some of the yucks, though, but it's still worth a watch as a borrow or rental. Lightweight, and James Caan continues his reptilian schtick that he's played ever since Sonny Corleone. January 6, 2009

Okay

this movie didnt have a real cover, it was in a cardboard insert, but what can you expect for it being so cheap! lol... overall the movie was great! July 10, 2008

Sadly, not really all that funny...

`Honeymoon in Vegas' is pretty much the comedic equivalent to `An Indecent Proposal', which is sad because `An Indecent Proposal' is a much better drama than `Honeymoon in Vegas' is a comedy. I'm really not a fan of Nicholas Cage, not in the least. I enjoyed him twice that I can recall (in `Adaptation' and `Matchstick Men') but aside from those two fluke performances I'm always left cold by his horrid line reading. In fact I'm willing to say that his spastic performance in this comedy could very well be his worst ever. He happens to be one of those actor's who thinks if he screams his lines they'll grab a hint of hilarity, but they don't and he comes off ridiculous, especially when paired next to Sarah Jessica Parker and James Caan who work with what little they're given with much greater success than Cage.

In the film Cage plays Jack Singer, a man afraid to commit. He travels to Vegas with his girlfriend Betsy, played by Parker, to finally tie the knot but before he can he finds himself in a high stakes poker game with a mobster named Tommy Korman. Tommy, who has his eye on Betsy, ends up taking Jack for $65,000, money that Jack doesn't have, but in turn offers him a resolution. If Jack will lend Tommy his fiancé for the weekend then his debt will be erased. Betsy reluctantly agrees only to find out that her weekend will not be spent in Vegas but in Hawaii with Tommy and his family (son and daughter-in-law and his new granddaughter). It's in this tropical paradise that Tommy begins to woo Betsy for himself while Jack frantically tries to find her and win her back.

Parts of this film are funny, in particular the `Flying Elvis's' at the end of the film are delightful, but almost every scene involving Cage is dreadful. Sarah Jessica Parker does a nice job of playing the fed up girlfriend who can't make up her mind who or what she believes, but it's Caan who steals the show in my opinion. He's always been a great actor, and not much has changed since his glory days. He's still on top of his game and acts circles around the rest of the cast.

Sadly, he still isn't enough to save this film from generic boredom. The jokes are mildly funny at that and the plot is so predictable it's annoying. The ending especially was so bland I was just waiting for them to do something, anything, to make it pop. Sadly, that pop never came. Instead we are just left with a lukewarm taste in our mouths and a mixed bag of feelings in regards to the experience we just endured. Is it worth watching? Eh, maybe. Is it worth watching a second time? I would answer `no', but this is me and you are you. I wouldn't recommend this film, but Cage may be your cup of tea and if he is then by all means, watch and make up your own mind. Just know that if you're expecting `Adaptation' levels of hilarity you will be sorely disappointed since that Cage is not present in this mess. August 13, 2007

"Do You Find Chief Orman Attractive?"

I thought this movie was really funny and Peter Boyle's scene is side hurting funny. Sarah Jessica's body is smokin' in this film too! July 8, 2007

A Wedding With Laughs

If you're looking for a film with a honeymoon gone wacky, this is it.

This 1992 movie stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator
who does'nt want to commit, but he does'nt want to lose his
fiancee (Sarah Jessica Parker, of "Sex and the City" fame),
so he decides to tie the knot in a fast Las Vegas wedding,
full of girls and Elvis imitations! But unfornatuely, he
loses his girl to James Caan! It's fun, adventurous and
dares to be funny. The script was written by director
Andrew Bergman (Striptease (1996), It Could Happen To You(1994))
who really knows how to direct something more than a hounddog!

You film buffs should know:

That's Parker playing Caan's late wife in a flashback scene.

That's executive producer Neil Machlis being called through
the speaker in one of the scenes.

Avaiable on both VHS and DVD. November 24, 2006

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