A lonely highway of tedium and tired jokes.
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04/09/04
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Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:5
Rotten:84
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: The poorly crafted Johnson Family Vacation squanders its talented cast in a bland family road comedy that draws unfavorable comparisons to Chevy Chase's Vacation movies.
Theatrical Release:Apr 7, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $31,038,582
Synopsis: AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the onboard navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson (Cedric The Entertainer) and his family's cross-country... [More]
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Reviews for Johnson Family Vacation
Cedric the Entertainer stars in a long drive in search of a family comedy, which is found too late and amounts to too little.
04/07/04
Top CriticJohnson Family Vacation is simply a bad trip.
04/08/04
A lackluster variation on the National Lampoon vacation formula.
04/07/04
We can only generously call it a pale imitation of National Lampoon's Vacation
08/03/04
An African-American road trip that mostly squanders some very gifted performers.
04/07/04
Top CriticApart from Williams' presence, director Christopher Erskin's feature debut isn't worth the price of submission.
04/07/04
Top CriticIt may seem like the Johnson family has everything they need for a Vacation rip-off, but the one thing they forgot to pack were the punch-lines.
04/07/04
Johnson Family is, basically, National Lampoon's Vacation with darker skin and a better star. But the Lampoon movie had quite a bit of comedy happening around its star, and Johnson doesn't.
04/07/04
Moviegoers hankering for another installment in Chevy Chase's vacation series may get a quick fix from Johnson Family Vacation. Just don't expect the film to add anything to the time-worn vacation-from- hell genre.
04/07/04
Mechanical performances by Vanessa Williams and Bow Wow, as Nate's musically inclined son, impair Cedric's earnest comedic efforts in this spasmodic comedy.
05/04/09
Solange's costumes are fashionably skimpy and her cell phone seems attached to her face.
04/08/04
Johnson Family Vacation is warmed-over sitcom fare, different only in that it’s a black family rather than a white family going through the mill.
04/09/04
Goal: family reunion in Missouri. Itinerary: bad gags.
04/09/04
Packing all the tired trappings of the raunchy road-trip genre, this loutish comedy plays out as a loosely threaded collection of shrill jokes and cliched sight gags.
03/06/07
Top CriticLike Bow Wow's exasperated upstart, you too will be asking, 'Are we there yet?' not 20 minutes in.
04/06/04
...Cedric the Entertainer simply cannot act.
08/17/04
Appallingly unfunny...About as stimulating as an actual 300-mile drive across the desert wastelands of Arizona and New Mexico.
04/08/04
A paralyzingly unfunny and desperate comedy. It dulls the senses and aggravates the mind. There hasn't been a movie this painful to watch since "The Passion of the Christ."
04/07/04
Too many jokes fall flat and a number of promising set-ups ... wind up going nowhere.
08/08/04
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January 04, 2006:
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December 20, 2005:
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November 17, 2005:
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