It really wasn't as funny as it could of been or should have been.
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04/18/04
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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
A soul-sucking extended sabbatical from humor, sanity and entertainment value.
04/07/04
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 CriticA surprisingly family-friendly comedy.
04/07/04
Top CriticAs arduous to watch as your neighbor’s poorly focused vacation slides.
04/11/04
It's a sign of trouble when watching a movie prompts nostalgia for the movie it's ripping off, particularly when that movie wasn't any good.
04/08/04
Boring, mediocre movie.
04/07/04
Top CriticWriters Todd R. Jones and Earl Richey Jones come up with only predictable road-trip comedy involving speeding, littering, a leaky cement mixer, an empty gas tank and bad fast-food.
04/09/04
Johnson Family Vacation affords the viewer a single offering of suspense in wondering just how the mode of transportation (a very souped-up Lincoln) will be destroyed.
04/08/04
More disappointing than outright disappointment, it has the feeling of being just one rewrite, one take, one more second of comedic timing off.
04/11/04
Writers Todd R. Jones and Earl Richey Jones, who make their feature film debut after brief careers in television sitcoms, have no sense of how to sustain a gag or make it pay off.
04/07/04
This is a real mess, with out-of-focus shots and continuity lapses that suggest a production in chaos.
03/06/07
A routine cross-country comedy that feels exactly like a series of adventures recycled out of every other cross-country comedy.
04/07/04
Top CriticJohnson Family Vacation is simply a bad trip.
04/08/04
Family of Five in Search of a Script might be a better title, but this road picture gets better as it goes along, and the upbeat ending redeems it considerably.
04/15/04
It was probably a sign that I was in for a rough time when I first checked my watch and discovered the movie had only been running for eleven minutes.
04/08/04
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
A sure-fire premise that sputters like a wet match...
04/08/04
Cedric pops up in a second role, as lecherous Uncle Earl, and a little of this character goes a long way -- say, roughly the distance from Anaheim to Albany.
04/07/04
The film does have some funny moments, but they don't come consistently.
04/07/04
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January 04, 2006:
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December 20, 2005:
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