Product Details

• Actors: Kate Bradley, Jake Thomas, Randy Quaid, Fred Willard, Rodger Bumpass
• Directors: Nick Marck
• Writers: Matty Simmons
• Producers: Elliot Friedgen, Matty Simmons
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000DZ3IE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,652 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Randy quaid again plays crude but lovable eddie in another comic skid on the vacation banana peel. In a way christmas has always been a test of survival for eddie & family & thats truer than ever when they receive an all-expense paid holiday tour of the south pacific & end up shipwrecked on a remote island. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Starring: Jake Thomas Ed Asner Run time: 83 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Nick Marck

Customer Reviews

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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A PUTRID HOLIDAY MESS, December 23, 2004

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (DVD)

Take everything that was so great about the First Christmas Vacation film, toss it out the window, get a lousy cast and a worst script and you've got the makings of Christmas Vacation 2. Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn reprise their roles as Cousin Eddie and Catherine Johnson in this horribly un-funny "holiday" film.

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.

Incredibly the movie has a decent supporting cast including Ed Asner, Fred Williard, Eric Idle, Stephen Furst, and Beverly Garland. Never has so little been done with so much.

Why did they make a sequel to Christmas Vacation??? No Chevy Chase, no Beverly DeAngelo? This played more like a bad sitcom than a legitimate movie. Granted, it was a made for tv film, but come on! This was just pathetic.

There were zero laughs in this movie. Seriously....zero laughs. Maybe a snicker or two but that's it. That is quite an achievement! This is nothing more than a slapped together mess meant to cash in on the name of its predecessor. National Lampoon should be cursed to watch this one over and over again.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WOW, December 5, 2004

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Erik W. Kortman "edub" (Southern CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (DVD)

I just finished watching this movie and i must say, this was the worst movie i have ever seen in my whole life. I only wish i could rate it 0 stars to give it the justice it deserves. i threw up a little bit during this movie due to the extreme horribleness this movie exudes.

HORRIBLE

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Vacuum of Space Sucks Less!!!, November 27, 2004

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M-Taliesin "M-Taliesin" (Aurora, Co USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (DVD)

My reviews are based on how well a film entertains my chums and me. All other factors; special effects, visual appeal, editing, stunts, and all the rest merely support the entertainment value. What really matters, once all is said and done, is whether the viewer was entertained.

This film sucks like an Electrolux. The vacuum of space does not suck so compellingly as this movie! It is brutally bad!

This film does not entertain. Nor does it come even close. It is a terrible film. It is absolutely awful. Humor, when any glimmer manifests at all, is strained and overdone. The smell of overcooked ham fills the air as actors cope with a horrifically boring script, idiotic dialog, overblown gags, witless peformances and a screenplay evidently written by chimpanzees. Perhaps it would have sparkled had it been written by chimps, because it certainly doesn't as it presently stands.

I purchased the film on the strength of the first Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase, which was hilarious. This film was not hilarious, not even funny, not even remotely so. It was lame. More than lame, it was lame to a quantum 10th magnitude.
This is a tragic performance for Randy Quaid, who has talent that is squandered on this tripe without mercy. I also expected much better from Ed Asner, who is simply wretched in this role.

In the past, I have written reviews critical of bad films. This one absolutely surpasses them all for the "worst film of all time" nominations! This movie is as useless as a glass-bottomed boat in a sewage pond. As an example, much of the lame humor revolves around a flatulent dog. Funny, perhaps to very small children or patients on Thorazine, but lacking appeal to anybody with an IQ above double digit!
Take it from somebody who wasted 15 bucks on this piece of video trash... DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS WORTHLESS PILE OF STEAMING COMPOST! Do not fritter your hard-earned money. Do not subject yourself, your loved ones nor your friends to this atrocious film. It simply isn't worth it. It isn't fair to them, nor fair to yourself.
I repent having fallen for it myself, as National Lampoon once was a funny group of folks. Now they seem mostly brain-dead or gone senile! I will happily part with it when I get that new disc shredder for the holidays!!!