
After surviving the Wally World expedition in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), the Griswolds embark on a fascinating, worry-free, all-expenses-paid trip to cosmopolitan Europe, courtesy of the popular TV game show, Pig in a Poke. This time, the merry holidaymaker, Clark Griswold, his wife, Ellen, and their teenage children, Audrey and Rusty, find themselves in a race against the clock, trying to see as many sights as possible in London, Paris, Germany, and Rome. Once more,... (Full plot summary below)
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After surviving the Wally World expedition in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), the Griswolds embark on a fascinating, worry-free, all-expenses-paid trip to cosmopolitan Europe, courtesy of the popular TV game show, Pig in a Poke. This time, the merry holidaymaker, Clark Griswold, his wife, Ellen, and their teenage children, Audrey and Rusty, find themselves in a race against the clock, trying to see as many sights as possible in London, Paris, Germany, and Rome. Once more, disaster follows, as British driving idiosyncrasies, unforgivable fashion crimes in the City of Lights, a daunting language barrier in a Bavarian village, and a brush with the law in Rome stand in the way of happiness. Can the Griswolds survive the European Vacation?
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| Chicago TribuneLarry KartToo many scenes in European Vacation peter out about a gag or two short for the film to be as funny as it ought to be. But the basic amiability of the humor is as pleasant as it is surprising. |
| VarietyVariety StaffGraceless and only intermittently lit up by lunacy and satire. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinWhile it's very much a retread, it succeeds in following up the first film's humor with more in a similar vein. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordHeckerling directs this mess with no sense of pace and less sense of where to put the camera. There are pixilated, MTV-style sequences that simply slow up the story, car chases and car crashes, and, of course, aerobicizers boinging out of their leotards. The best thing in the movie is the catchy theme from the last Vacation, which, unfortunately, hasn't the slightest thing to do with Europe. |
| About.comFred TopelAnother great Vacation movie. Typical dumb tourist antics in Eurpoe, and it still works. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseI see London, I see France, I see Chevy do a dumb dance. [Blu-ray] |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioThe best thing in the movie is the catchy theme from the last "Vacation," which, unfortunately, hasn't the slightest thing to do with Europe. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonAwkward and unamusing and ridiculous in the bad way. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonThere was bite and outrageousness and a touch of the surreal to the excesses of National Lampoon's Vacation (in which Chevy Chase and Harold Ramis humanized Hughes' cartoonlike material). This was writing whose springboard might have been awful firsthand experience. European Vacation feels as though it were dreamed up to cover the rent on the beach house for the summer. |
| User ReviewJonathan HHow many millions of times have I watched this film? A lot. Oink oink my good man. |