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The Great Outdoors (1988)

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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.

Cast

  • Dan Aykroyd
  • John Candy
  • Stephanie Faracy
  • Annette Bening
  • Robert Prosky
  • Chris Young
  • Ian Giatti
  • Hilary Gordon
  • Rebecca Gordon

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Metacritic

40

Entertaining family movie for rainy nights and Christmas holidays.

Metacritic review by William Thomas
William Thomas
Empire
10

The Great Outdoors is about as much fun as ants at a picnic for anyone over the age of 10. It's a crass, blah comedy about summer vacation perils that teams Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, but gives them next to nothing to work with. If the prolific and profit-making John Hughes weren't the writer--as well as the co-executive producer--of this scattershot nonsense directed frenetically by Howard Deutch, it's hard to imagine the film getting made, let alone attracting Aykroyd and Candy.

Metacritic review by Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
20

Though the film never becomes actively unfunny, neither does it do much more than tread water. The raccoons have a better time than the audience will.

Metacritic review by Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
The New York Times