Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003)

That was an excellent one.

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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.

This is another awful Christmas movie I've seen and boy is it dumb. I guess I'll admit I don't hate it as much as most people, but it's still annoying. This movie isn't a sequel. It's a spinoff featuring one of the minor characters from the original "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation". Whereas that film was funny and memorable, this is dull and forgettable. The plot is that Eddie goes on a vacation to Hawaii after being bitten on the butt by an ape.Yes, that's the plot. Oh, and there's lots of dog farts along the way. Haven't we learned that dog farts are bad things to put in movies? All the jokes are predictable, especially the scene where we know the house they built is going to topple over. Eddie was funny as a character who was in and out of the original movie, but to devote an entire film to the joke of him being a bug zapper is ridiculous. *1/2

I was out-of-town, visiting an old friend. After dinner, talking, he expressed some reservations about his daughter's boy friend. She's 15, beautiful, smart, athletic, and the young man is also from an excellent family, nice, also athletic (if not as smart). I told him he might just be feeling the normal fatherly concerns; however, a few minutes later the young man arrived, with his DVD of this flick, which he had apparently been anxious for some time to share with the others. These folks have a bona fide home theater set-up, with a screen something in excess of 4 feet, and the two young folks preceded to view it, while the young swain proceeded to extol its virtues almost frame-by-frame.I saw enough in a few moments (and with some fascination in its awfulness) to endorse all of the most critical comments I've seen in scanning some here.I told my friend I wouldn't go so far as to disqualify the young suitor solely on the basis of his liking this opus -- but it certainly seems to warrant his bearing close watch.Some flicks are so-bad-they're-good: the classic "Plan 9 from Outer Space;" and, in my opinion, the wonderfully awful Bruce Jenner/Village People work, "Can't Stop the Music."However, this one remains firmly simply in the awful category.Second/third/fourth "bananas" -- even the best of these (e.g. Tim Conway, Don Knotts, everybody with Seinfeld) have great difficulty in carrying a later starring series (or, as here, film). And these were great supporting characters in their original situations.The "Eddie" character, really at about the 5th- or 6th-banana level in the prior Griswald movies, and never added a whole lot to these, in my opinion. Randy Quaid is a capable actor who has delivered some good performances. His contribution to the prior "Vacation" pic's was average, at best. Both he and the other cast members, many of whom have done some good work in the past, accomplished nothing for their efforts here, except to derive a few years' house payments or some IRA contributions.This whole presentation --- story, performances (from lead to support) couldn't be worse.