RV

I take my younger daughter to the movies every Friday night, along with another dad and his girl. The movies are chosen to be kid friendly. and so 'RV'was selected. This particular evening the other dad's girl friend was with us. The adults were resigned to a glum two hours of tedium, but - surprise! Surprise!! - it turned out to be kinda fun. No one will confuse it with Citizen Kane, but it was lively, funny, and not at all boring. It is obviously a pay check movie for everyone involved - but they are all solid professionals and deliver the goods. I was particularly interested that Kristin Chenoweth, the Broadway star, was in the cast. Sp we had a good time with this movie, which is really all you ever ask on Friday night. The entire case does an ensemble version of 'Route 66' over the closing credits, which is worth staying for.

This is perhaps the driest performance I have ever seen from Robin Williams.I might have smiled and almost chuckled a time or two,but this film never once made me laugh.Humor that involves raw sewage just isn't very entertaining to me.As a matter of fact(and I say this with no pun intended),it stinks.I have always thought that Robin Williams is at his best when he is improving,and it just seems here that he was not given enough room to do this.It seems like he is going a little too much by the script.It may not be his worst film ever,but it certainly ranks closer to the bottom of the list than it does to the top of it.I recommend all movie goers steer clear of RV and take another road.

An executive that feels that he can't tell his wife that the families trip to Hawaii has been canceled because his boss demands he work. And, because he's a middle aged man that has been with the company for years and another younger man is trying to get his position, he feels that he has to honor his bosses request and work, or find another job. Robin Williams pulls this role off with wonderful grace. He makes you really feel for the poor man that has worked so hard to provide his family with material wealth, but forgot along the way about the things that really count in life. Take a man that is unstable at best, but warm and witty, two kids caught up in their own worlds, and a wife that has her own world, stick them in a rolling motor home and shake and you get a funny mix. The theater was booming with the laughter as they tackle problems like, getting the racoons out of the oven, and how to empty the sewage without wearing it. Everyone in my family gives this movie two thumbs up!!

For those who have been waiting for a fun-filled family comedy for kids of all ages, RV is the answer to your prayers. Full of comedic moments that hark back to such great family comedies as The Great Outdoors or Vacation, Robin Williams returns to his slapstick best with his turn alongside Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines and tween icon "JoJo" Levesque. The cast, which also includes Golden Globe-nominee Jeff Daniels as the lovable RV roadwarrior Travis Gornicke, is perfect across the board. The characters are enjoyable and engaging, and the actors play off each other with a zeal often missed in these types of films. Credit director Barry Sonnenfeld, too, for his sense of comedic shooting and timing, and you have an ensemble that practically can't miss. The film excels at delivering continuous laughs through light humor that propels the story along in an ideal Vacation-esquire manner, with the family nagging at each other's throats and narrowly escaping the "dangers" of the road. The music track by James Newton Howard is atypical for the soundtrack sub-mogul, playing against his dramatic style to accent the film's quirky visuals and hilarious antics. In what appeared to be a bygone niche, Sonnenfeld, Robin Williams and Jeff Daniels revive the family comedy in RV. The film shines among the best in its genre, with new twists on traditional family comedy fodder that are sure to amuse and delight audiences from 1 to 92. 8 out of 10.

The executive Bob Munro (Robin Williams) is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory (Will Arnett) hired the Stanford's geek Laird (Richard Cox) to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro (Cheryl Hines), his teenage daughter Cassie Munro (Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque) and his young son Carl Munro (Josh Hutcherson) to spend vacations in Hawaii, but Todd demands him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth to his family, rents a recreational vehicle and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailers parking area, the rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and leaning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds. When I decided to watch "RV" on DVD, I had lower expectations, but I am still laughing while writing my review. This hilarious movie has many unforgotten sequences, but my two favorites are in the very beginning, when Cassie promises to love her father forever, and when Bob complains that the family watches television in four different apparatuses and needs Internet to communicate among them. This family entertainment has good messages relative to family bonding, pressure in the job and true friends. There are some gross, but also funny scenes, and in the end I really liked this comedy. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "Férias no Trailer" ("Vacations in the Trailer")

Robin Williams' latest Hollywood vehicle has its own kitchen, sleeping quarters, luggage compartments and toilet, where the studio should have flushed the script the minute it crawled through the door. This movie sucks. They TRY to be like that of National Lampoon's family vacation type movies, but falls far, far, far short of it. I can't believe this movie made it to the big screen. Commercials and trailers for this film look stupid and it brings "stupid" to the screen crisply. No question about that. The vacation romp "RV" sucks the "recreation" out of recreational vehicle, offering a few very (if any) laughs amid bad slapstick, shrieking performances and enough feces gags to make constipation sound like a viable lifestyle. All the actors and cast and crew should be ASHAMED of this film!!! It will be listed as one of the WORST films on this year.

I went to this movie, half-expecting it to be an even bigger flop than the Bill Murray movie I like to call "What About Bomb." Boy! Was I wrong! Robin Williams plays Bob Munro, a mid-level soft-drink executive having a mid-life crisis. He's hoping to re-connect with his wife and kids with a vacation to Hawaii. After all; it worked for the Brady Bunch. Right? But, Mike Brady didn't have a vindictive, profiteering, exploitative, germ-a-phobic yuppie boss threatening to fire him if he didn't go to Colorado for a business meeting! One aimed at a thinly-disguised hostile takeover of a smaller-yet-popular competitor. So, Bob kills two birds with one stone (although, I wouldn't use that expression around Bob's eco-activist daughter, Cassie, if I were you). And, off the whole family goes, to Mt. Watson in the Colorado Rockies. In a lime-green RV bearing the likeness of director Barry Sonnenfeld a la Hitchcock. Along the way, the Munros take plumbing advice from a pair of trailer park brothers who are "two pliers short of a tool chest." They endure a rainstorm while waiting for the RV to air out from a raccoon-repellent stinkbomb ("good up to six hours"). And, they also meet the Gornickes (long "e" sound on the third syllable), who are sort of like country/western versions of the Von Trapp Family. In fact, Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth are pretty good singers. To my immense surprise, I found myself laughing hysterically at all these parts of the film! The biggest laughs, however, came during the Diablo Pass segment. And, the mountain-biking segment. I swear to you folks, Robin Williams still has that old slapstick magic. He's like a one-man Three Stooges!!! And, that's the best I way I can think of to end this review. I urge you to go see it. You'll find yourself pleasantly surprised.

Let me just say that I love Robin Williams. I've gone to his stand up shows, seen almost all of his movies, but this movie just didn't do it (for me). It tried very hard to be funny, but ended up being cheesy and predictable. I think I laughed at one thing, and I can't even remember what it was. I was excited to see GOB and Buster from Arrested Development in it, but that just made me sad that they took off a TV show that actually knew how to deliver comedy. Anyways, if you have little kids, they'll probably love it. If on the other hand you are the select few who enjoy laughing at The Office (UK) and Arrested Development, you probably won't like it.