Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003)
Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being bitten by a lab monkey. When the Tuttle family winds up trapped on a tropical island, however, Eddie manages to provide for everyone and prove himself a real man.
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A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
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)
In some way I suspect Warner Brothers made this movie so it would flop. Then they could make the fans go away that nag them about why they're not going to make another Vacation sequel with all the Griswalds and the National Lampoon guy Matty Simmons producing it. It had its funny moments. I liked the scene where Eddie tried to catch a big fish and reel it in. It was so large that it pulled the boat backwards toward their deserted island. Also, it got me laughing when Eddie's son and his uncle (Ed Asner) peek at their Hawaian host undressing both at the same time. If anything that rated one to zero it was the extra feature about the making of the film that focused on training the animals, Eddie's favorite types of beer and how many different ways the cast members could say "Merry Christmas." Audrey said "Merry Christmas, I wanna kill myself!" Yuck. Avoid the extra feature because it told what was fake in the movie besides what already looked cheap and fake.
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation is no Citizen Kane as some would have you to believe. I think most of these reviewers prefer the dry Chevy Chase humor, and that is what they mostly expected to get in this movie. Randy Quaid is one of the real reasons that i like the vacation series. They trash this movie because they can only stand so much of the Randy Quaid crude humor. If you don't like Randy Quaid much, you will not care for this movie. I am sure that people would do a 180 in this movie if it had Chevy Chase in it regardless. This movie way better than the Killer Tomatoes and Plan 9 From Outer Space. Some people are too afraid to say they like it because of all the criticism. Consequently,everyone trashes it. I will not. P.S.- this is not the red-headed stepchild or Yoko Ono of movies
Who gave these people money to make a movie? There was nothing funny about it. The fact that the farting dog was the funniest thing about this piece of sickness says it all. First of all, it has nothing to do with Christmas, it just took the name and counted on all those people who liked the Chevy Chase original. They took Randy 'I have no talent, I m just a fat and sweaty pig' Quaid (the only wrong thing about part 1) and made a 'movie' about him...There are only morons in his family, but not the 'aren't they cute' kinda moronic, but the 'don t touch me' kinda moronic. Watching this pile of dirt helps you hope that everyone who takes part in it DIES! They didn't even bother to get the effects in order...when they re on the boat, the only thing that moves is the fake background...when pigface Quaid is in the water you can tell by the lighting that it's in a studio. This movie was sexist (uncle Nick), racist (uncle Nick) and should never have been made..never...throwing the money into a volcano would have had so much more use.Well I hope I reached some of you...Nobody warned me and now I m scarred for life Merry F*cking Christmas