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Cookeyface [ 8.0 ]
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Robin Williams carried the whole film no questions asked. But it was fun to see all the mayhem this film showed with the family had to go through. Robin Williams was on the verge of losing his job unless he made a presentation for his company. Keeping it from his family, instead of going to Hawaii for a family vacation, they rented an RV so he can "work" while traveling. Quirky and fun.
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Dancing_P [ 2.5 ]
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I can't imagine anyone actually feeling any passion for such a shit movie. Most truly terrible movies have some kind of mad passion behind it; even though it's shit, you can concieve of someone believing in it. Say what you will about Uwe Boll, the dude has passion for what he's doing. I have trouble believing that anyone really put their heart and soul in this mass-produced piece of crap. The fact that so many people who have worked on some of the funniest movies/shows of the last twenty years could make something so soulless worries me. I guess I'm overreacting some; after all, this isn't the first time funny people make a bad movie - but it seems it's the first time I realize how truly depressing this thought is. Robin Williams (not one of the aforementioned funny people, not for the last twenty years anyway) plays a marketing exec who decides to forfeit his family vacation in Hawaii and take an RV cross-country. Unbeknownst to his wife (Cheryl Hines) and kids (JoJo and Josh Hutcherson), he's actually heading towards a crucially important meeting that could spell a promotion from his asshole boss (Will Arnett; why?!). Yes, it's pretty much National Lampoon's Vacation all over again; this time we get a literal geyser of shit (they walked right into that one), some random tired Williams ''character'' bits, way too much running away from stuff and a dubious moral at the end. None of it feels remotely real, from the wildly unlikeable characters to the shiny candy-store palette of the cinematography; this movie should be sent up in space to confuse and discourage invaders. By the time Jeff Daniels and Kristen Chenoweth show up as painfully nice and kitschy country bumpkins, you'll give up all hope. I did.
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Jeff_Wilder [ 2.5 ]
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A disaster pure and simple. What makes it even worse is that it isn't a noble failure either. No it's an assembly line designed piece of product that was commercially oriented and has no soul at all. What can one say about a supposed comedy that has Robin Williams in it and Jeff Daniels playing the head of a clan of wandering redneck campers and still can't muster up more than MAYBE one or two laughs.
The best way to sum it up is this: RV is the cinematic equivalent of a person at a party who tells a long and unfunny joke. He finishes the joke and realizes nobody's laughing. So what does he do? He goes back and explains, all the while completely oblivious to the fact that the reason nobody was laughing because the joke wasn't funny. That's RV in a nutshell. You know that a screenwriter's out of ideas when he breaks out the safety belt that won't buckle cliche.
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DokBrowne [ 5.0 ]
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Crucify me if necessary, but this wasn't as bad as it should have been by all accounts: annoying Robin Williams in annoying family comedy mold going on an annoying road trip with an annoying family and reveling in annoying scatalogical humor: yaaaaay...
But it made me chuckle at times. It was genial, the script wasn't (always) terrible, and the excruciating moments of unbearable stupidity were few (although unfortunately still existent). I wonder if my generosity was inspired by the circumstances of me seeing this while out of town, out of state even, on a family assignment in Colorado where I had nothing to do 90% of the time for a whole week. Under such conditions, even a movie as formidable as "RV" seems to be would start looking good to a obsessive moviegoer like me, especially if the two-screen movie theater in town featured nothing else but this and "Mission Impossible 3" (which I was sure to see first, at least). Either way, I guess it's always an impressionistic perspective that we bring to movie watching, no matter how objective we try to be, so for better or worse, I ended up almost liking this fucking movie. Hopefully I'd have thought that anywhere at any time, but ya never know. Jeff Daniels was pretty good, that much is certain.
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| Weighted Rating | : 5.6 |
| No. Ratings | : 6 | |
| No. Reviews | : 6 | |
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