Truly Dreadful Film

The Worst Film Ever

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Blistering performances.

A holiday to the South Pacific turns awry, when Cousin Eddie's family and a tour guide are shipwrecked on an island. Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure is a terrible film and i think even a 5-year old knows that. It's kinda bland, 80% of the jokes fall flat and some of the green screen sequences are so visable like it's the 80's once again. Some jokes do land at times and the acting isn't that bad since all the actors pass as idiots quiet well. Overall if you liked the previous installments you will hate this one for sure. (3.5/10)

I am suprised at all the negative reviews and people claiming it it was the worst movie they ever saw - they have not seen "Santa Claus vs the Martians" or "The Waterboy". It is bad but amusing; it follows a formula unfortunately the execution is lacking. Randy Quaid overacts while the others have one dimensional roles. Quaid was great in the LBJ movie so I cut him some slack. Ed Asner must have been hard up to take on this role.The sexual harrassment the Lee character receives does not belong in a movie - it was not funny. Having the parts included may give an insight into how Hollywood thinks this kind of thing is acceptable; It may be indicative of why there are greater problems in the industry.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 (2003) 1/2 (out of 4) Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) gets bitten by a monkey so to avoid a lawsuit the company sends him and his family on a vacation to a tropical island. Man, oh man, what a complete and utter disaster this thing here turned out to be. It's somewhat shocking because it seems writer Matty Simmons, a vet of this series, was really trying to delivers the goods to fans. I mean, we've got Cousin Eddie returning to the series. We've got Dana Barron from the first VACATION film coming back as Audrey Griswold. We've also got Eric Idol coming back as his character from the second film in the series. Throughout the movie there are other jokes aiming back at the previous films in the series as well as other National Lampoon movies including a cameo from Stephen Furst of ANIMAL HOUSE fame. They went that far to come up with something for the fans but they should have spent more time on the screenplay because it's just horrid. Not for a single frame does this low-budget film feel like it's a part of the series. There just aren't any funny moments and most of the scenes are just so poorly written and handled that you can't help but feel embarrassed. Even worse is that the entire thing is an obvious attempt to just make money, which is a real shame as I'm sure the series had more to offer. The performances are pretty much what you'd expect but Quaid can't capture the fire from his previous entries in the series and he comes across rather bland. Fred Willard doesn't add much but Sung Hi Lee steals the film with her incredible beauty, which makes this thing worth sitting through. I will admit that it was fun seeing Barron again but her character is poorly written. 50's Scream Queen Beverly Garland appears towards the end in the final film of her career. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S Christmas VACATION 2 is a truly terrible movie on pretty much all levels so people really shouldn't expect anything like the original series.

So one day I was at Wal-Mart and I saw this movie in the recycled bin for five dollars. I thought, "Christmas Vacation 2? With Uncle Eddie? He was funny in the first one!" That's how they grab you. Take a funny character and slap a two on one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made, and hope suckers like me buy it. What's even worse? I subjected the wife and kids to this disaster.I'll be honest. I liked the way the film starts out. We are introduced to a kid named Third who's like the smart kid of the family and giving us exposition on his father. His father, of course, is Uncle Eddie and we are soon introduced to him to being an experiment of some sorts to see if he's smarter than a monkey. It is here where I realized that in order for Randy Quaid to be Uncle Eddie, someone has to direct him properly otherwise he's going to forget. I don't know where the Uncle Eddie was from the first one but I'm willing to bet if they got the writing staff and director Harold Ramis from the first one, we will get to see the real Uncle Eddie.Then Uncle Eddie gets fired and, wait a minute, why is he living in some big house like this? I thought he lived in a trailer? Why is he in Chicago, Illinois? I thought he lived in a different state? What's with the plumbing problem? Is this supposed to be funny or is it a plot point of the film? Seriously, there's this scene where Uncle Eddie tries to shower but the nozzle is broken and water shoots out and gushes all over the house. The kids thought this was funny but I failed to see the humor in this or how this fits into the story. Then two more characters show up. Audrey (Dana Barron reprising her role from the first Vacation movie) and Ed Asner playing some uncle. Uncle Eddie gets bit by that monkey and soon they are offered to take some island cruise because, you know, so they don't sue them. I thought a better plot device would be Uncle Eddie resorting to demeaning jobs like Department Store Santa Claus or something considering this is a Christmas movie. But no, the movie finds some lame way to get them to some island resort which does not feel the slightest like Christmas.It is here where I wondered where the film is going as one more character comes into play. It's some Hawaiian girl who Third and Ed Asner hits on the whole movie. I thought she would be some villain or something that serves a purpose to the plot... but she isn't. In fact, as the movie goes on, especially when we get to the whole tired "stranded on a deserted island" plot I began to wonder what purpose does any of these characters serve. Even Uncle Eddie fail to serve a purpose other than being a brainless idiot. Audrey had no purpose of being there other than whine about her break up. Why is Ed Asner in this? Will this deserted island plot go anywhere? Is there a plot? Is there a purpose to this movie? No, there isn't! Why am I getting bored? Yes, it gets really boring on this island. My wife fell asleep at his point. The kids stopped chuckling and I just wanted it to end but I couldn't. Why? I wanted to see if my prediction of the ending was right. Guess what? I was! I predicted the ending to a tee! It was stupid to boot. It won't change your thinking process throughout the course of the film with the, "Man this movie is stupid. It's boring. Lame." The ending will just seal the deal on those thoughts.The movie is an insult to the Christmas Vacation name. It's even worse than European Vacation (I didn't see Vegas Vacation) and I can see why there wasn't at least a cameo by Chevy Chase or Beverly D'Angelo. If you like bad Christmas movies, give this one a watch. If anything, you will want to watch Christmas Vacation with clarity and forget this one ever existed. This movie never happened. Uncle Eddie never got stranded on a deserted island for Christmas. Got that? Good.