National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure (2003) on Netflix
Fired from a Chicago atomic testing lab when a chimpanzee outperforms him, Eddie Johnson gets a Christmas vacation in the South Pacific from his boss. A boat tour ends in a shipwreck.
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After the dirt farm is foreclosed and the RV repossessed, Eddie Johnson, his wife Catherine and their son Third live with Audrey Griswold. Eddie measures his brain waves for radioactivity at the Chicago Atomic Testing Agency, and when a chimpanzee named Roy beats him at every cognitive test, the agency lets him go just before Christmas. After Eddie insults Roy and is bitten, his boss, Professor Doornitz, worried about a lawsuit, sends the family on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Maluka, an archipelago in the South Pacific. Eddie's uncle Nick, whose marriage has just ended, and Audrey, who does not want to spend Christmas alone, come along, with Muka Luka Miki as their guide. On a boat tour of nearby islands, Eddie hooks a shark while fishing, and the boat is wrecked on a coral reef.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure (2003)
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- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 is the only film in the Vacation franchise that does not star Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo, who played Clark and Ellen Griswold.
- Dana Barron, who played Audrey Griswold in the original Vacation film, is the only actor to return as one of the Griswold children in any film in the franchise.
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 is the only film in the Vacation franchise that does not star Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo as Clark and Ellen Griswold.
- Dana Barron, who had originated the role of Audrey Griswold two decades earlier in the 1983 original, returned to play the same character here, making this the only Vacation film to feature an actor reprising one of the Griswold children.
