Quaid does his best, but there is a lot of not funniness to it. ![]() In this regard it's kinda similar to Vegas Vacation, the wit and sentiment of John Hughes is sorely missed. This 'un is just an excuse for a string of bad jokes with terrible comic timing. The first was about Clark Griswald wishing to give his family the best Xmas ever. Obviously disaster is never too far away. So off they go (uncle Nick and Audrey too) for their dream Christmas Vacation. Feeling down about how hopeless he is, Eddie is cheered up when the company offer his family and all expenses paid trip to Hawaii. Cousin Eddie (the ever lovable Randy Quaid) is housesitting for Audrey (the totally sexy Dana Barron) during the Xmas holidays but loses his job at the Nuclear research plant to a chimp. Just switch your brain off and enjoy an afternoon of stupidness. But that doesn't mean it's not worth a few laughs. 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.Ĭhristmas Vacation 2 is nowhere near as classic as the original. 50's Scream Queen Beverly Garland appears towards the end in the final film of her career. I will admit that it was fun seeing Barron again but her character is poorly written. Fred Willard doesn't add much but Sung Hi Lee steals the film with her incredible beauty, which makes this thing worth sitting through. 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. 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. 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. Not for a single frame does this low-budget film feel like it's a part of the series. 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. 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. We've also got Eric Idol coming back as his character from the second film in the series. We've got Dana Barron from the first VACATION film coming back as Audrey Griswold. I mean, we've got Cousin Eddie returning to the series. It's somewhat shocking because it seems writer Matty Simmons, a vet of this series, was really trying to delivers the goods to fans. Man, oh man, what a complete and utter disaster this thing here turned out to be. 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. They took the original piece of work and dragged it through the mud!!!! Why? So Sad! They milked these stories for all they were worth. They did the same thing to such greats as "Jaws", "Crocodile Dundee", "Superman" and so many others. The story was rediculous and not the least bit funny, but really sad. All these characters were morally depraved, and just disgusting all together. So it was her, cousin eddie, and his wife and the grandfather, played by Ed Asner. ![]() This one basically found the long lost Audrey and put her together with her trailer trash cousins, which if you had seen the first movie know would NEVER happen. The Christmas one.hmmmm, not crazy about, but not horrid. The second was not as good, but still pretty decent. The original vacation was hilarious and I still laugh when I see it. First off, what is Vacation without Chevy Chase? He WAS the movie. Why do movie producers insist on tarnishing the name of something that was truly great? They did not HAVE to use the "vacation" name to make a story out of this piece of crap, but that is the ONLY way anyone would have EVER watched I suppose.
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