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Movie Reviews of RV (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Condo on Wheels Takes Too Many Familiar and Irritating Detours
Summary: 2 Stars
'RV' has plenty of big laughs and sight gags. And it's a good thing for 'RV' that Robin Williams is in the driver's seat. If not we'd have to put up with more than "Are we there, yet?" from his two bratty teenage kids, even if his wife, Jamie (Cheryl Hines), is a sweet, yet nagging presence.
Bob Munro (Williams) is a successful corporate figure, and, as in many similar movies, he must juggle his career and his responsibilities as a father. Like many families he has plenty of money, but none of the needed time to engage with his family. His boss is a real charmer: Todd tells his wife that "If my ex-wife were as good looking as you, I'd still be in a horrible marriage." Poetic justic, I guess, is rendered when an equally charming friend of teenage Cassie douses the corporate jerk-face and gives him a good lecture like she were the head of the health police.
Bob wants to keep his promise for a Hawaiian vacation, but Todd the Boss insists he make up for the debacle. So he sends Bob to Boulder for a sales pitch to make a local soda pop acquisition with a corporate merger. Bob's solution? Get an RV and combine family time with a business trip. We have all the jokes you'd might expect: Bob hasn't gotten his RV license--figuratively--and runs over and into anything. Then taste comes into question when nearly every conceivable joke could be made about waste management. It is at such a dumping site that the Munros meet the Gornickes. Culture clash meets the Monroes as the clueless city slickers meet the corny country couple with their own two kids. Stereotypes are made and broken. First they're made so we can laugh; then they're broken, so the producers don't get hate mail. On the road again, the Munros try everything to evade the Gornickes' family charm, which seems inconceivable. Teen daughter Cassie sums it up best when she says, "What do they like about us? We're not even that appealing!" True enough, Cass. All too many predictable mishaps derail Bob's chances of making a timely pitch to charm client and family. In a final desperate attempt to get back to the camp site after his sales pitch, he is stuck in a high altitude traffic jam. Bob has all the sense (and nonsense) to take the alternate route, Diablo Pass, to meet his family in a timely fashion. Only to be taken by jeep or a dirt bike, the conceivable "condo on wheels" has only one place to go on this terrain, and it ends up in a mountain lake.
There will be enough interest and appeal to satisfy some fans for this movie. Williams gets nearly all the big laughs. ("If I lose my job, I hope the kids love selling fruit on the highway.") Jeff Daniels country charms us with the veneer of a 'Dumb and Dumber' persona. The Gornicke singing, which is meant to make us laugh with the Mrs.'s country yodeling, is really one of the more endearing elements of the movie. Nay, the generous, well-behaved presence of the Texas family helps to soften the rougher edges of Munro kids needing some quality time. And the heart to heart talks between man and son and man and wife bolster some needed emotion in what is too often an overly long and irritating trek to the mountains. (2 1/2 *'s)
Movie Review: Depends on What You Want Out of It
Summary: 2 Stars
RV isn't a great movie. It will never win any awards for artistic merit, best acting or musical soundtrack. As far as family vacation movies go, Vacation with Chevy Chase was, by far, a better package. RV doesn't break any new ground in comedy or story-telling. It doesn't even really showcase Robin Williams like other movies have.
However, if you are in the mood for some light-hearted mindlessness, RV will provide 99 minutes of that. The better character in this movie, in my opinion, was Jeff Daniels' Travis Gornicke. The story goes that the actors had to be trained in how to drive RVs - with the exception of Daniels. Apparently, he has his own RV and spends a fair amount of time in it.
This movie has a cartoonish quality to it. The characters have a cartoonish quality to them, somewhat overplayed. So lower your expectations, and you may actually get a bit of a kick out of RV.
Movie Review: Robin Williams Owes Us a Refund: But He's Still Amusing
Summary: 1 Stars
The worst thing about this movie (and there are many bad things) is that with a good script rewrite, it could have been a classic comedy. It's not. The script is horrible. It's dreadful. It's a mistake--110+ pages of mistake. The initial concept of the film (a guy rents an RV and takes his family on a problem-filled vacation) is a great one--I love road films and who could do a better one than Robin Williams and Cheryl Hines? Both charming and funny actors with amazing appeal. But the backstory on this film, the lame idea that Robin Williams' character is hiding his secret motive to attend an important business conference is just so lame. Why was a complication like that even necessary? Isn't taking two teenagers across country in an RV ripe enough with funny possibilities? Chevy Chase's Vacation? Hello!!!
But instead of just making a funny road movie about an RV obsessed father taking his unwilling family on vacation, the writer(s) here decided that it needed an extra wrinkle: workaholic Williams plotting to get to some big meeting. Ugggggh. It's like a Disney script written by children instead of for them.
Also, the entire idea of being in an RV starts out with such great comic promise: the toilet is not working. And THAT sequence is actually funny. It's the last funny thing you'll see in this movie. From there on the movie is one long RV joke about long RVs and ridiculous scenes of driving over mountain roads and into lakes. Please. If you want to see a funny movie that takes this theme and provides killer comedy, just rent Lucy & Ricky's The Long, Long Trailer" Perfection. Robin Williams hanging onto the hood of the RV as it plunges--driverless--down a mountain road is utter nonsense. Suspend disbelief? You'd have to suspend all human experience to find this remotely amusing.
That said, I will say this: Jeff Daniels is terrific. Why this guy isn't the highest paid actor in Hollywood, I'll never know. He is the saving grace (if there is one) of this film. And it seems to me like a better writer wrote his lines. In fact, I'm sure of it. And Robin Williams, while he didn't even phone in this role (he sent a body double), is somehow oddly comforting to watch on the screen. How is this possible? Here is the worst script I've seen in decades and Williams remains someone you want to watch.
Personally, I think that Robin Williams owes us all a refund--not for not being charming, he is--but for agreeing to do this movie after he read the script. He should have turned it down or forced them to rewrite it. That's what star power is for, isn't it--getting good scripts? Sorry Robin, but you stole the money on this one and we deserve a refund--not for your acting, but for your willingness to make any movie if the money is right. How much money do you need, anyway?
Anyway, if you want a comforting stupid movie to keep you company on a summer's night, spend a buck on a used copy at your local video store (don't pay Amazon $2.99 to ship it to you). But trust me, you will watch this film and at the end you'll say: "Wow, this could have been the best road film of all time. Instead, it's probably the worst."
Then the next weekend, go rent: Midnight Run or Dutchand see what real road-film genius is all about. Or watch a Williams masterpiece: Moscow on the Hudson.
Still, I have to say, that Williams guy is one helluva charmer. And I hope his health is doing well. Come to think of it, for all the great moments he's given us, I guess he can keep the refund.
Movie Review: Very boring unfunny movie!
Summary: 1 Stars
I love robin william's movies especially his older ones their a classic and he's a great actor too but this movie was such garbage and if I could give it a 0 stars I would. It saddends me to see a great actor like robin williams playing as a sensitive character who's family just hates him and doesn't appreciate his hard work to support his own family. Jojo is the main character I hate she's an arrogant selfish whiny little brat especially when she says after she discovers the rv infront of their house, OMG IT'S YOUR HUSBAND! (yeah no respect). Yes I know it's just a movie for our entertainment and people are going to correct me but still it wasn't funny to me and I think this movie just promotes teenage brats of today, in other words they make 15 year old girls look bad as always.
Overall I hate this movie but robin williams is a great actor and I love pretty much all of his movies except this crap.
Movie Review: Poor quality of video
Summary: 1 Stars
This DVD was advertised as being "like new". However, evidently the DVD had several bad places on it. It freezes up frequently and at one point freezes for a long period of time. I will have to by another copy for my son.