the second in the vacation series be easily the least enjoyable one and a clark griswold win a trip for the whole family to europe . the tasteless and below the belt humor that work so well the first time around be practically nonexistent here . that fault surely lie with director hackerling and who obviously nowhere near as good a director a harold ramis and a very uninspiring script that have only a handful of decent line scatter around . the cast do what they can while chevy chase injects some form of life into the proceeding but it simply not enough and the very funny eric idle be completely waste in a small role a a very unlucky englishman . some potentially hilarious moment aren not play out to their full potential and leave the viewer mostly aggravate . all depiction of european be one dimensional and almost universally not funny at all ( like how the english be sooo polite ) . apart from a few scene and there hardly a laugh in sight and the end turn this one into complete slapstick . but if youre a chevy chase fan ( like myself ) the film be watchable and but no more than that .