With Chevy Chase's comedy National Lampoon's Vacation scoring a $30million hit, it was perhaps predictable that a second serving was on the cards. But this graceless affair - a sort of American Carry On farce - is a sorry sequel, with none of the strong characters and incisive swipes at middle-brow, blue-collar America that marked out the first film. The best thing in it is the opening sequence, but director Amy Heckerling soon falls into the same trap as in one of her biggest hits to date, Look Who's Talking, by getting carried away with physical humour. Look out for fleeting cameos by British comedy stalwarts Eric Idle, Mel Smith, Robbie Coltrane and Maureen Lipman.

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