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Name: The Great Outdoors
Released: 1988-6-17
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening, Chris Young, Stephanie Faracy

The Great Outdoors

PG
1h 30m
1988

40%

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When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restful in this raucous comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. It's a vacationer's worst nightmare, as wheeler-dealer Aykroyd, his sexually repressed wife and eerie twin daughters "join" the easygoing Candy and his straight-laced clan for a season of "fun" in the sun. Unfortunately, the only thing these two in-laws have in common is their intense dislike for each other. Soon, it's brother-in-law against brother-in-law in an uproarious and hilarious fight to the finish to see which one really knows how to enjoy The Great Outdoors.

Director:

Howard Deutch

Producer:

Arne Schmidt, John Hughes

Writer:

John Hughes

Cast:

Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening, Chris Young, Stephanie Faracy, Lucy Deakins, Robert Prosky

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

40%

Critics Consensus: Even with a pair of talented comedians trying their best, vacation-from-hell comedy The Great Outdoors is merely mediocre.

Reviews

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Tom Long

Dan Aykroyd has been in some absolutely terrible movies. John Candy has been in some absolutely terrible movies. Now they're in the same absolutely terrible movie.

In short, "The Great Outdoors" has the wit of "Summer Rental" and the sparkle of "Harry and the Hendersons."

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Martha K. Baker

"The Great Outdoors" succeeds as a perfect summer's movie: not too deep, not too long, not too verbally witty or politically witty, not too embarrassing, not too sexy. Just a good time in air conditioning.

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Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Linda Cook

This possibly is the first time in cinematic history that raccoon-ese has been translated in subtitles.

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Austin American-Statesman

Patrick Taggart

The sight of a bear running through the woods with bare buttocks probably has some superiors in the history of comedy. But not this week.

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