![]() 1, 1989) The Hollywood Reporter looks at what the cast has been up to since blinding neighbors with Christmas lights and sailing across Chicago freeways on grease-lined sleds. ![]() As the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary (it first opened Dec. 2 slot behind the second installment of the Back to the Future franchise, but held the box office lead for the Christmas weekend of 1989 to eventually gross $71.3 million (not adjusted for inflation), according to Box Office Mojo, and has become an annual TV staple during the holidays.Ĭhristmas Vacation’s cast is chock-full of seasoned comedy performers, including leads Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, but also featured early roles for younger actors who would eventually become stars in their own right.īased on filmmaker John Hughes’ National Lampoon short story Christmas ’59, Christmas Vacation tells the story of family patriarch Clark Griswold hatching grand plans to celebrate Christmas, but as the previous Vacation movies proved, Clark’s best laid schemes rarely pan out well. CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE'S ISLAND ADVENT.It has been 30 years since the Griswold family invited audiences to celebrate the holidays in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.SPACEMEN & GO-GO GIRLS AND THE TRUE MEANING OF CHR.And next to this unnecessary and disappointing sequel, belly button lint is looking mighty good. But you are asking way too much if belly-button-picking trailer park shtick is all you got for 90 minutes. Eddie was great because his belly-button-picking trailer park shtick was meant as a foil to the “normal” characters. The character of Cousin Eddie works better as a second banana to Chase’s goofy Clark and can’t support a leading role, much less a hastily and sluggishly slapped together feature. Lost in the crappy shuffle of this inept movie are huge talents Asner, Fred Willard, and Eric Idle who all look like they had their funny castrated. The visual gags (which the Eddie character is not known for pulling off) are uninspired, clumsy, and just incompetent. Nobody even tried to yank a chuckle out of this lousy, lazily-written script. I was warned to approach this movie with extremely low expectations, hoping that deep down inside the clever talent of Quaid could save this hound dog, but boy was I wrong. So naturally, the National Lampoon folks who haven’t made a watch-able film since 1989 resurrect Eddie and his butt-dumb clan for another go-around at X-mas. Quaid’s Eddie stole the show in his three appearances in the Chevy Chase Vacation franchise, but none so memorable as his wickedly stupid turn in Christmas Vacation. ![]() These are the things that make the original Christmas Vacation a holiday classic. And big lovable dumb smelly Cousin Eddie. There, he gets into a variety of pant-shittingly riotous yuck-ups: he catches a shark while fishing, he maroons himself and the family on a deserted island, he kills a boar with tweezers, he crash-lands a sea plane, and he manages to bore the living hell out of anyone watching this cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit. ![]() Eddie packs up the family including recent bitter divorcee Uncle Nick (Ed Asner) and flies down to the island of Mulaka. Fortunately, he gets bitten in the ass by a monkey co-worker and gets a settlement of a fabulous vacation to the South Pacific. Eddie (Randy Quaid) loses his job as a guinea pig at a nuclear lab which means it’s curtains for X-mas this year. Randy Quaid’s bulbous butt, a dense wife, a befuddled Lou Grant, a smoking hot Asian, a dorky kid, a gassy canine, a dull Aussie, Griswold cans, nudge-nudge-wink-wink, and a GODDAMN monkey.Ĭlark Griswold’s white trash cousin Eddie is back. Holiday Movie Category: National Lampoon’s Piece of Shit ![]()
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