Very well executed

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Fantastic!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is a similar concept to national lampoons vacation. It is still funny because I like Robin Williams

I really needed this. The day before I saw this movie I saw one movie that was terrible and one that was good but depressing. That's what happens when you're cheap and you just watch what's on, even if you use a DVR to see it later. And with this movie, a DVR or other recording device is essential. You want to see everything happen. Or maybe you don't. I don't recommend eating while you watch this.Robin Williams doesn't do his best work here, but if all you want is to see this master play a normal father with the ability for the slapstick and stand-up styles of comedy, you couldn't do much better. His presentation in Boulder is brief but amazing. There's a second presentation that is also quite good but not ideal for a business professional; it's more suited to, say, a corny movie that teaches a moral lesson. And he does the normal father scenes quite well.JoJo Levesque is ideal as a spoiled teenager who learns what is important in life and can even show a mature side. She starts out (what-EVER) as quite a contrast to the adorable Erika-Shaye Gair we saw a few minutes earlier. And she can SING! You have to stay around for the closing credits. Not everyone in this cast has singing talent, but she does.Cheryl Hines is quite likable and amazingly tolerant. And she looks good here. I think the difference is she doesn't smile much. She doesn't have much to smile about. But when she does, it's not that gigantic smile.Kristin Chenoweth makes the most of her role as the matriarch of the annoying Gornicke family that keeps showing up to make our heroes miserable. You have to like her, unless you're the Munros. She looks great and isn't ashamed to show off her ... chest. She has a magnificent singing voice and even shows her operatic talent in performing something corny.Jeff Daniels is likable and actually intelligent. For his role, I would have expected someone more like Organ Stew Guy. He was introduced at a time when poor Bob needed someone with brains to clean up the literal mess made by the bumbling Howie and Joe Joe. But for the annoying rednecks, I didn't think intelligence would be required. I was wrong, and he plays a great character.I've mentioned music several times. There's a lot of good music here. Most of it is instrumental country music, but I don't need words to enjoy it. When there are words, they are mostly the silly words that you would expect kids to hate. Hines doesn't mind being silly and embarrassing her kids, who have their own "music" (it doesn't qualify).Colorado has magnificent scenery. I can't say enough about it. North Carolina's mountains are beautiful, but I don't think we have anything to compare to this. And yet the credits mention Canada. So this is actually Canada? Wherever it is, it's enough to drive home the lesson this family has needed to learn. Who needs Hawaii? Utah's not bad either. Great rock formations. For some reason, no trees grow until you reach the border.And we do learn some important lessons here. We have the evil boss who doesn't seem to care about family and probably wouldn't appreciate nature either. And Laird, the young upstart who might replace Bob who has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Brilliant, but no people skills. So once it becomes clear people like this aren't the ones you should consider important in life, our heroes find out what really makes life worth living.Is it appropriate for the whole family? Of course. If your family likes potty humor. I can see some strict parents not wanting their kids anywhere near this. But it's a fun adventure if you can handle it.

RV: Runaway Vacation is an awful movie with a terribly written storyline and a mostly good cast that deserved so much better than this.From the very first scene of the movie I was thinking it was going to be fun,Robin Williams was simply playing with his child and clearly improvising his lines,and it made me feel like this was going to be very enjoyable,and then every single scene after that was a disaster.The humour is ridiculous and not once (excluding the very first scene) did I laugh,it was too childish for anyone over the age of seven,and there is literally nothing funny in it for adults to enjoy.It sickens me that the late great Robin Williams is in this movie,because not even his likable personality could save it,Cheryl Hines and Jeff Daniels are two other great actors that made a huge mistake when they signed on to do this movie.Lacking a very little amount of fun that you would obviously want in a family movie and generally unlikeable characters,I would recommend RV: Runaway Vacation to absolutely nobody. Bob Munro (Robin Williams) and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies,where they have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.Best Performance: Robin Williams Worst Performance: Kristen Chenoweth

Bob Munro (Robin Williams) is threatened by younger competition at work. His boss (Will Arnett) tells him to cancel his Hawaiian family vacation, and join a presentation to a possible takeover partner in Colorado. Bob decides to lie to his family (Cheryl Hines, JoJo Levesque, Josh Hutcherson) and rent an RV to drive to Colorado.They are not likable people. Cheryl Hines isn't kidding when she says, "Try to remember. We're not friendly." The husband is pathetic, the wife is high maintenance, the daughter is bitchy, and the son is stupid. This is not the Griswold family. I like the Griswolds, and most importantly, they love each other even when they fight. The odd thing is the other 'annoying' family (Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth) that they run into is actually super nice and lots of fun. I rather hang out with them than this bickering family. The saving grace is that they find their love for each other in the end.As a comedy, it's a failure. None of it was funny. Once in awhile, they hit upon a cute moment. The poop shower scene wasn't gross enough to be shocking, and not funny at all. I didn't have a good laugh in the entire movie.