Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, Randy Quaid, Kathryn Hahn
The lights are brighter, the chaos is bigger, and the Griswolds are back with the most explosive Christmas disaster in holiday history. Christmas Vacation 2: Griswolds Under Fire brings America’s most accident-prone family crashing into the modern era for a brand-new Yuletide catastrophe where nothing goes right—and everything goes hysterically wrong.
Chevy Chase returns as the indomitable Clark Griswold, older, certainly no wiser, and still stubbornly convinced he can create “the perfect Christmas” to leave a legacy for his grandchildren. All he needs is one more extension cord, a questionable ladder, and a dream that defies the laws of physics. Beverly D’Angelo shines once again as Ellen, the patient matriarch clinging to her wine glass and her sanity as she tries to prevent Clark from literally burning the neighborhood to the ground.
Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki reprise their roles as Audrey and Rusty, now successful adults who think they are prepared for a calm family gathering. They are wrong. Clark invites everyone over for one final “Grand Griswold Gala” before declaring the house a historical landmark, dragging his children back into a vortex of nostalgic madness. Just when they think they can manage their father, Randy Quaid blasts back into the story as Cousin Eddie. He arrives in a dilapidated RV that shouldn’t be street-legal, bringing with him a pet raccoon, a generator that violates every safety code in the state, and a homemade flamethrower he affectionate calls “the festive fixer” for melting ice.
Adding new comedy firepower to the mix is Kathryn Hahn as Karen Stickler, the uptight, power-hungry neighborhood HOA president. She is determined to stop the Griswolds’ decorations from violating her strict aesthetic guidelines—a bureaucratic battle she is destined to lose in spectacular fashion.
The catastrophe escalates when Clark attempts to modernize his holiday spirit by installing “Santa-OS,” a state-of-the-art AI lighting system designed to sync the house with the “heartbeat of Christmas.” Instead, the system malfunctions, goes full Skynet, and traps the entire neighborhood in a blackout while the Griswold home explodes into a blinding 10-million-lumen light show visible from the International Space Station.
Cue the absolute madness: drone-delivered reindeer collisions, a squirrel uprising in the attic, a turkey that spontaneously combusts, exploding eggnog barrels, and a snowblower tornado that threatens the structural integrity of the garage. As Eddie’s RV skids uncontrollably across the frozen street and a rogue mechanical Santa goes on a rampage through the cul-de-sac, the family must band together. In a final, heartwarming showdown involving fireworks and panic, Clark and his family must turn total disaster into a miracle—proving that while Christmas is never perfect, the Griswolds always make it unforgettable.