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RV

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RV reviews
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5.4 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Adventure  |  Comedy  |  Family/Kids

Written by: Geoff Rodkey

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 28, 2006
DVD: August 15, 2006

Running Time: 98 minutes, Color

Origin: Germany / USA

Summary

RATING: PG for crude humor, innuendo and language

Starring Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, JoJo, Josh Hutcherson, Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth, Hunter Parrish, and Chloe Sonnenfeld

Overworked Bob Munro (Williams) and his family are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans and organizes a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle. Dragging his wife and kids kicking and screaming into the RV, Bob's togetherness plan almost immediately hits a speed bump, and everything that can go wrong, does. (Sony)

What The Critics Said

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75

New York Post Kyle Smith

RV stands for "Retread of 'Vacation,'" or possibly "Robin's Vehicle," but to me it's funnier than "National Lampoon's Vacation." I always found Chevy Chase's road trip more unpleasant than outrageous, but RV has laughs spilling out of its overhead bins.

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67

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

What makes RV work are some genuinely funny bits (one of which is not an overlong sequence in which Bob has trouble emptying the R.V.'s toilet) that should ring especially true to any parent forced to cajole a recalcitrant child into having a good time.

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63

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The funny thing about RV - no, it's not the jokes, which mostly bomb - is that the characters are actually pretty likable. It's an odd achievement for a road-trip comedy that wants desperately to be loved for its potty jokes, not its humanity.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Robin Williams is such a great comic virtuoso that it can almost hurt to see him straining to pump life into a conventional, uninspired, sometimes-goofy big-studio comedy such as RV.

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58

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

With the exception of one long improv riff on a campground basketball court, Williams nicely underplays his role. Unfortunately, Sonnenfeld also underplays his. We should expect more of him.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

There is nothing I much disliked but little to really recommend. At least the movie was not nonstop slapstick, and there were a few moments of relative gravity, in which Robin Williams demonstrated once again that he's more effective on the screen when he's serious than when he's trying to be funny.

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50

Village Voice Jordan Harper

The result is a workmanlike family comedy with enough pratfalls and poo jokes for tykes and enough sentimentality for parents.

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50

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Winda Benedetti

A family-friendly comedy with some gut-shaking chuckles and a heartwarming message. Sadly, it's also a fine example of what happens when talented people settle for utter mediocrity.

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50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Once you get past the lengthy, graphic geyser-of-liquid-excrement gag, it's not as irredeemably vulgar as it might have been.

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50

Variety Justin Chang

RV works up an ingratiating sweetness that partially compensates for its blunt predictability and meager laughs.

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42

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

As Williams ricochets between playing submissive soft-drink executive tethered to the whims of a hysterical boss and pathetic dad at the wheel, trying to cajole his family into vacation satisfaction, we can be excused for getting carsick.

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40

Empire Angie Errigo

Williams' virtuoso hijinking and Daniels' Huggy Bearish bonhomie save this from complete ignominy, but we’ve seen it all before.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The biggest disappointment is the rigorously rote nature of the characters and story line in Geoff Rodkey's script

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40

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This miserable comedy is enlivened occasionally by Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth as a cheerfully tacky couple who keep crossing paths with the dysfunctional clan.

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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

RV has teeth -- more teeth than the last few Steve Martin films, anyway -- but it's terrified to bite down, knowing that the paying audience would feel it more than anyone.

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30

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Nowadays no family movie is complete without a values-oriented agenda and a bountiful supply of fecal matter, and RV supplies both.

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30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Why did director Barry Sonnenfeld take on this project? Just to sully a fine comedic resume that includes "The Addams Family" and "Get Shorty"? And one last one: Which one of these levers do you push to send the RV careering off the mountain for good?

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30

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

The bedraggled movie limps along to its phony hogwash of an ending, adding the ignominy of sentimentality to its previous sin of being so derivative.

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30

LA Weekly John Patterson

In RV, the downwardly spiraling career trajectories of Robin Williams and director Barry Sonnenfeld intertwine like the ropes of a tangled parachute, and all the helpless viewer can do is look on aghast as the whole abortive fiasco plummets toward Earth.

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30

Slate Grady Hendrix

RV is another disturbing entry in the dark cycle of movies that began for Robin Williams with "One Hour Photo" and "Insomnia" and has continued with "The Night Listener." I look forward with queasy dread to what he'll do in "Mrs. Doubtfire 2."

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

RV is a horrible movie about horrible people, and just because they call it a comedy doesn't mean we have to play along.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Yes, Virginia, there is a poop fairy, which is why studio heads persist in tucking the likes of RV under their pillows, confident they'll awaken Monday morning to find all that brown turned straight to green.

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25

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Apart from a funny turn by "Arrested Development's" Will Arnett as Williams' evil boss, nobody appears to be having a good time. And the feeling is infectious.

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25

ReelViews James Berardinelli

On those rare occasions when RV stumbles across a comedic moment that is legitimately funny, it drains the humor out of it by milking it dry.

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25

USA Today Claudia Puig

Unfunny, sappy and massively predictable.

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25

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

I would have told you that its title refers to recreational vehicle. Having seen it, I now know the initials stand for reeking vulgarity.

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20

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

The recreational vehicle has a long and storied tradition in American cinema, from "Damnation Alley" to "Lost in America" to "Stripes." Sadly, RV shares little of its namesake' nationwide appeal.

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0

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Isn't it time to put Robin Williams out to pasture? There's precious little mirth to be had via RV after the comically nasty opening set-up.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Joseph O. gave it a9:
Thank-you for another film that teaches us something worthwhile while making us laugh. I laughed a lot and used my brain very little. Sometimes you just need to laugh and loosen up a bit. But RV's laughs mask its true value as a modern life style critic. Perhaps the negative reviews are more about feeling uncomfortably challenged by a call to reality.

Techai T gave it an8:
Not brilliant but very funny; much better than the National Lampoon attempts at this genre. Robin Williams definitely makes it worth the rental.

Nick A. gave it a3:
A lame comedy full of poo jokes.

Marlene gave it a10:
I really liked it. I was impressed that there was no nudity or cursing. It showed real talent.

Chris W. gave it a9:
I found myself laughing harder at this movie than I thought that I would. They probably could have made the whole movie with just having that RV hit everything and anything when they are driving and I would have given this movie a 10! This is a good PG movie that your whole family can enjoy. Think of this movie on the same lines as "Cheaper By The Dozen."

Kyle M. gave it a0:
I hate giving movies a "0". But my soul is perfectly at rest when giving one to RV. My fiance laughed a grand total of 0 times, and I laughed five times as much as she did. Honestly, did the writers truly think that having the RV roll down a hill or across a parking lot FIVE times was going to have the audience rolling?

Chad S. gave it a4:
When Bob(Robin Williams) is emptying his septic tank, the country "hicks" who assist him sound as if they straggled over from "O Brother Where Art Thou". That goes the same for the Gornickes as well. A better time could've been had with Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth as the leads. They're poop-free. The same can't be said for "R.V." An even worse offense than the geyser of crap, literally, and metaphorically(Robin Williams' homeboy schtick, the collective realization that the Munros love each other, and the tired slapstick), is the lack of respect for people who have regional accents and a rural sensibility.

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