The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (film)

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is an American live-action prehistoric family comedy film produced by Amblin Entertainment, based on Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom The Flintstones, which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1966. It was distributed by Universal Pictures (credited as Univershell) on April 15, 2000. It was written by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfront, and Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., produced by Bruce Cohen, and directed by Brian Levant. It is a prequel to the previous 1994 film, The Flintstones.

Fred and Barney are just starting to make a life for themselves when meeting the girls of their dreams, Wilma and Betty. But when Wilma's jealous, rich ex-boyfriend finds out he has a rival, he sets Fred up. With a little help from the alien the Great Gazoo, he may just prove his innocence and get Wilma back.

Characters
John Stephenson (voice)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Great Gazoo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Alan Cumming
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gazaam
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Taylor Negron
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gazing
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Taylor Negron
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mark Addy
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Barney Rubble
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stephen Baldwin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bronto crane instructor #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jack McGee
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bronto crane instructor #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| David Jean-Thomas
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bronto crane
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Richard Karron
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bronto worker
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Coughlin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Melvin Granite
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bride-to-be
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Simard
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Tennis girl
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Heather McClurg
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Kitty
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Chene Lawson
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Pearl Slaghoople
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Joan Collins
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wilma Slaghoople
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kristen Johnston
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chip Rockefeller
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Thomas Gibson
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Eugene
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Colonel Slaghoople
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Harvey Korman
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty O'Shale
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jane Krakowski
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Old man
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Buck Kartilian
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Joe Rockhead
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Irwin Keyes
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Dino
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mel Blanc
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mr. O'Shale (chiseled photo)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mrs. O'Shale (chiseled photo)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Photographer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Beverly Sanders
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Joan Crawfish
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Valet
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| John Cho
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Genieve
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| Cheryl Holdridge-Post
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Isaac Mizrocki
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Wilma's great-great grandmother
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Stony Bennett
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Roxie
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Alex Meneses
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Little Rocko
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Danny Woodburn
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Big Rocko
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tony Longo
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Octopus masseuse
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Rosie O'Donnell
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Barney's uncle
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mick Jagged
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Alan Cumming
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Keith Rockhard
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Taylor
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Casino security guard
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Wills Martin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cliff
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Julius
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Confessor #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Rachel Winfree
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Confessor #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Ted Rooney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Confessor #3
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Doughan
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Lieutenant Lapis
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Choregrapher
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jason Kravitz
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Arden
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Bachler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tracie Burton
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jacqueline Case
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Chang
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Teresa Champman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Darlene Dillinger
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kristen Dinsmore
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tracie Hendricks
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Helena Hultberg
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Katherine Miller
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jessica Page
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kim Timbers-Patteri
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Cristal Williams
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience woman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Anne Martel Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience man
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding minister
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Walter Gertz
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Confessor #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Ted Rooney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Confessor #3
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Doughan
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Lieutenant Lapis
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Choregrapher
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jason Kravitz
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Arden
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Bachler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tracie Burton
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jacqueline Case
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Chang
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Teresa Champman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Darlene Dillinger
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kristen Dinsmore
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tracie Hendricks
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Helena Hultberg
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Katherine Miller
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jessica Page
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kim Timbers-Patteri
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Cristal Williams
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience woman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Anne Martel Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience man
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding minister
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Walter Gertz
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Katherine Miller
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jessica Page
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kim Timbers-Patteri
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rockette
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Cristal Williams
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience woman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Anne Martel Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience man
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding minister
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Walter Gertz
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Anne Martel Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Audience man
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Mahoney
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding minister
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Walter Gertz
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding minister
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Walter Gertz
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding guest
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Joseph Barbera
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding guest
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wedding guest
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| William Hanna

Organizations

 * Slate and Company (mentioned)
 * Bank of America
 * Loyal Order of the Water Buffalos (mentioned)
 * The Bedrock News (mentioned)
 * Mick Jagged and the Stones
 * Rock Vegas Police Department
 * Rockettes

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Bedrock
 * Bronto Crane Academy
 * Slaghoople Manor
 * Bedrock Bowl-O-Rama
 * Toy-S-Aurus
 * Marshy Fields
 * Bank of America building
 * Bronto King
 * Upper Crust Mobile Estates
 * Melrock Place
 * Betty's residence
 * Carnival
 * Bedrock Gardens
 * Flintstone residence
 * New Jersey (indirectly mentioned)
 * Princestone (mentioned)
 * Nevada
 * Rock Vegas
 * Tardust
 * Precinct III
 * England (indirectly mentioned)
 * Salisbury (indirectly mentioned)
 * Stonehenge (mentioned)
 * Great Gazoo's planet (mentioned)
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Hamilstone juicer
 * Fruity Pebbles
 * Roca-Cola
 * The Bedrock News newspaper
 * American Gothic
 * Nighthawks
 * The Scream
 * Holy slab

Vehicles

 * Great Gazoo's spaceship
 * Flintmobile

Music
The music was composed by David Newman.

Songs

 * 1) "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
 * 2) "Viva Rock Vegas" - Ann-Margret
 * 3) "This Isn't Love" - Mark Addy
 * 4) "Rock This Town" - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
 * 5) "Seven Nights to Rock" - Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit
 * 6) "Half a Boy, Half a Man"  - Nick Lowe
 * 7) "Viva Las Vegas (Viva Rock Vegas)" - Alan Cumming
 * 8) "(Meet) The Flintstones"
 * 9) "Rise and Shine"

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: April 15, 2000

Behind the scenes

 * Incidentally, Fred and Wilma also had a Rock Vegas marriage in the animated TV movie I Yabba-Dabba Do!
 * Fred mentions going to work at Slate and Company setting up his future job.
 * Gazoo alludes to the Disney film Aladdin.
 * Bronto King is a parody of Burger King. Similarly in the last film, McDonald's was parodied with RocDonald's.
 * Jurassic Park the Ride is a parody of the film Jurassic Park, which Steven Spielberg directed, with Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment distributing and producing respectively; in the previous film there was an actual park/playground called Jurassic Park.
 * Post's cereal Fruity Pebbles makes an in-universe appearance.
 * Roca-Cola is a parody of Coca-Cola.
 * Chip and Roxie seem to be an allusion to the children of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, who were born in the unrelated animated TV movie Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby.
 * Mick Jagged and the Stones are a parody of Mick Jagger and his band, the Rolling Stones.
 * Chip has prehistoric paintings of American Gothic, Nighthawks, and The Scream.
 * One of the wanted posters in the Rock Vegas jail has a picture of Joseph Barbera.
 * Harvey Korman was the voice of the Great Gazoo in the sixth and final season of The Flintstones.
 * "Viva Rock Vegas" sung by Ann-Margret is both an allusion to the 1964 film she starred in Viva Las Vegas, and the time she guest-starred as Ann-Margrock in The Flintstones episode "Ann-Margrock Presents."
 * Irwin Keyes reprises his role of Joe Rockhead from the previous film, making him the only actor to play the same role in both movies. Harvey Korman and Rosie O'Donnell both appeared in the previous film, but as the dictabird and Betty, instead.

Errors

 * If Wilma is so rich, then why does she act like Fred's promotion and subsequent raise and bonus is a big change for her in the previous film?

Everlasting influence

 * In the Family Guy episode "Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream," The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is Peter's favorite period film.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * September 26, 2000: Universal Studios Home Entertainment releases The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas on VHS.
 * September 26, 2000: Universal Studios Home Entertainment releases The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas on DVD.
 * June 4, 2019: Universal Studios Home Entertainment releases The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas on Blu-ray Disc.
 * In the United Kingdom:
 * October 23, 2017: Fabulous Films releases The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas on Blu-ray Disc.