Johnson Family Vacation

Name: Johnson Family Vacation
Released: 2004-4-7
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer Cedric "The Entertainer", Bow Wow, Vanessa Williams, Shannon Elizabeth, Steve Harvey

PG-13
1h 37m
2004

age 15+

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Cedric the Entertainer stars as Nate Johnson who sets out with three unruly kids and one unsatisfied wife on a cross-country trek to the family's annual reunion in Missouri.

Director:

Christopher Erskin

Producer:

Paul Hall, Eric C. Rhone, Cedric the Entertainer Cedric "The Entertainer", Wendy Park

Writer:

Todd R. Jones, Earl Richey Jones

Cast:

Cedric the Entertainer Cedric "The Entertainer", Bow Wow, Vanessa Williams, Shannon Elizabeth, Steve Harvey, Kurupt, Masasa

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Critics 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.

Reviews

Common Sense Media

Beth Pratt

This charmless movie not for children.

Mechanical performances by Vanessa Williams and Bow Wow, as Nate's musically inclined son, impair Cedric's earnest comedic efforts in this spasmodic comedy.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Sacramento News & Review

Mark Halverson

Several laugh-out-loud moments are scattered throughout this otherwise dumb-and-gets-even-dumber African-American road trip.

June 21, 2017

Chicago Reader

J. R. Jones

This is a real mess, with out-of-focus shots and continuity lapses that suggest a production in chaos.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Associated Press

David Germain

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.

June 21, 2017

Common Sense Media

age 15+

Common Sense Says

This charmless movie not for children.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the sexual content in Johnson Family Vacation includes nonstop sex jokes, including an erection gag, as well as implied nudity and lots of talk about having sex. All the violence is played for laughs, including car crashes, a man being beat up and a baby alligator being nearly drowned. There is drinking and a drug reference -- a hitchhiker leaves a drug pipe in the car and the family goes to jail for it. The commercialism is blatant, from the Burberry car interior to the youngest daughter's love of Froot Loops and the son's Pepsi addiction.