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38Apart from Williams' presence, director Christopher Erskin's feature debut isn't worth the price of submission. It's not a road trip; it's a road trap.
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38If laughs are the currency of any comedy, then this one pays minimum wage and, worse, makes you work damn hard even for that pittance.
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Johnson Family Vacation is simply a bad trip.
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20As arduous to watch as your neighbor’s poorly focused vacation slides.
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30It's a sign of trouble when watching a movie prompts nostalgia for the movie it's ripping off, particularly when that movie wasn't any good. But walking out of Johnson Family Vacation, it's hard not to feel misty-eyed for the urine-soaked-sandwich gags, incest jokes, and other refined comic elements of "National Lampoon's Vacation."
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The movie contains exactly two chuckle-worthy moments.
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10The entire enterprise was directed by first-timer Christopher Erskin like a would-be Max Bialystock; one can only assume it's supposed to be this bad, because nobody sucks this hard on accident.
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38Boring, mediocre movie.
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38Lame.
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Nearly a scene-for-scene rip-off of "National Lampoon's Summer Vacation" -- where the only substantive change from the original is a reversed travel route.
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25You won't see a single joke here you haven't encountered before, all in funnier forms.
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25Tired and glib, it tries to milk humor from the sniping, sass and simple disrespect of its unpleasant traveling companions.
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30The direction on Johnson Family Vacation is numbingly slack; the synapses between the scenes don't spark effortlessly, as they should, and the whole enterprise feels dragged-down and belabored.