RV (2006)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 93
An unoriginal and only occasionally funny family road-trip movie, RV is a mediocre effort that not even the charisma of Robin Williams can save.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 27
An unoriginal and only occasionally funny family road-trip movie, RV is a mediocre effort that not even the charisma of Robin Williams can save.
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A white-collar workaholic deceptively persuades his family to forgo their much-anticipated Hawaiian vacation for a cross-country road trip in a fully loaded RV, during which they discover the true meaning of family bonding, in Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld's family-friendly road comedy starring Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, and Cheryl Hines. Bob Munro (Williams) is overworked and overstressed, and though his proposal to hit the road with his wife and two children at first sounds like a
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Cast
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Robin Williams
Bob Munro -
Jeff Daniels
Travis Gornicke -
Cheryl Hines
Jamie Munro -
Kristin Chenoweth
Mary Jo Gornicke -
Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque
Cassie Munro -
Josh Hutcherson
Carl Munro -
Will Arnett
Todd Mallory -
Hunter Parrish
Earl Gornicke -
Brendan Fletcher
Howie -
Rob La Belle
Larry Moiphine -
Brian Markinson
Garry Moiphine -
Chloe Sonnenfeld
Moon Gornicke -
Alexis Ferris
Billy Moiphine -
Tony Hale
Frank -
Brian Howe
Marty -
Richard Ian Cox
Laird -
Erika-Shaye Gair
Cassie aged 5 -
Veronika Sztopa
Gretchen -
Kirsten Williamson
Tammy -
Matthew Gray Gubler
Joe Joe -
Stephen E. Miller
Organ Stew Guy -
Malcom Scott
Kenny -
Deborah DeMille
Dump Lady -
Chad Krowchuk
Scruffy Teenager -
Ty Olsson
Diablo Pass Officer -
Bruce McFee
Independence Pass Offic... -
Rebecca Erwin Spencer
Waitress -
Giacomo Baessato
Hip Hop Wannabe -
Justin Chartier
Hip Hop Wannabe -
Andrew Botz
Hip Hop Wannabe -
Barry Sonnenfeld
Irv
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All Critics (128) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (95) | DVD (14)
Not unbearably terrible, just thoroughly mediocre.
Top CriticRobin Williams tricks us into believing he can control his inner maniac beyond the film's first 15 minutes; when he fails, any hopes of RV going off-formula are dashed.
Outsized huckster idiocy...
It probably sounded like a swell idea in the pitch meeting.
RV works up an ingratiating sweetness that partially compensates for its blunt predictability and meager laughs.
A workmanlike family comedy with enough pratfalls and poo jokes for tykes and enough sentimentality for parents.
Robin Williams hasn't been this funny in many moons.
A disappointment for both Robin Williams and Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld, this vacation-from-hell plotline quickly grows tedious
...never quite as bad as it probably should have been...
A genuinely terrific main cast makes it all work within the confines of its all-ages intent.
There are some sequences where you will love the characters and others where you can't stand them. Hmm, maybe RV is close to the real thing after all.
You keep hoping for Williams to erupt at least once, the way the septic tank does in the film's most disgusting scene, but it never really happens.
i really hated it
This is an ugly, desperate, witless little movie that, even if you happen to like it, will evaporate from your memory in the time it takes to flip the channel.
When it comes to this road-trip comedy, the question isn't 'Are we there yet?' It's: 'Is it over yet?'
Surprisingly palatable family comedy...
Williams' virtuoso hijinking and Daniels' Huggy Bearish bonhomie save this from complete ignominy, but we've seen it all before.
Of course, it all winds up with absurdly contrived lessons about family bonding, including a climactic soliloquy by Williams that's barely short of laughable.
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- RV - Runaway Vacation (UK)
Its pretty much a by the numbers light hearted comedy set in the wilderness as Robin Williams tries to give his family a fun packed vacation and spent more time with them. Despite being very very predictable and completely unoriginal the film is actually quite amusing and very watchable.
Yes you know what will happen with every setup and yes Williams is being his own 'Clarke Griswold' but damn it its fun. Williams is a likeable fun guy and the family casting isn't too bad either, Hutcherson as a body building obsessed wannabe 'homie' is actually quite funny but Jeff Daniels as the slightly religious, thick tashed rodeo type does grate, his character and family I guess are the 'cousin Eddie' n co of the plot.
Sonnenfeld is a good director of family films and he does a fine job here it has to be said even if the film is nothing new.