RV (DVD)

Have you ever watched one of the early ‘National Lampoon’s Family Vacation’ films? I basically mean the first one, or their trip to Europe (the rest were pretty bad). They laid claim to the family-in-hell-together genre and hold it steadfast to this day. Well along came an executive who thought, “Why not make another one?” Turns out that all the cast are old and Chevy Chase has been official labelled as unfunny. This did not dampen our friend’s quest as he sought to create a National Lampoon’s vacation for the new millennium, ‘RV’. Bob Munro (Robin Williams) is a hard working father of two who feels increasing alienation from his family and hates his job. ...  Read the complete review

Everything that happens to this family, they deserve. The whole fact that they learnt a lesson is supposed to be a resolution at the end of the film. You have a man who is too wimpy to tell his boss he won't write a report when he's supposed to be going on holiday. Employment laws are on his side, he is allowed holiday. His boss can't threaten his job the way he does, so that conflict would never arise. He hires an RV and is given no instruction as to it's various functions and has not been asked if he has ever driven anything like it? That I find unlikely! Their trip to his business meeting is of course plagued with problems, all of which they fully deserve. ...  Read the complete review

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Writer: Geoff Rodkey Released in the UK: 9th June, 2006 MAIN CAST: Robin Williams as Bob Munro Cheryl Hines as Jamie Munro Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque as Cassie Munro Josh Hutcherson as Carl Munro Bob Munro desperately wants to impress his boss so he can get a much-needed promotion, however, his ambitions get in the way of his relationship with his wife and children. When Bob gets caught up in a project at work, a project he just can't say no to, the dream vacation he promised his wife and children takes a backseat to his work. Cancelling the family's dream vacation by the ...  Read the complete review

Do you judge people on appearances? If you do then maybe this is a movie that you should watch. Robin William stars as a quite typical American business man - too busy to spend much time with his family. His holiday is no exception when he cancels the families dream vacation becuase of a business trip. He doesn't want to admit that to them so he makes a story of wanting to go an RV trip across the US (strangely they will be headed to the same city as his business trip) On the way they meet another sterotype- the trailer-park people. And they judge them harshly - something I think we have all done at one time or another! I won't give it ...  Read the complete review

God what has happened to Robin Williams. I remember seeing him in films like Good Morning Vietnam and thinking, "Wow, this guy is still funny and yet he can act too. He's really good." Cut to the present and he is appearing in films like... Well RV for one. IN this movie, Robin Williams takes his family on a road trip, passing it off as a holiday when it is in actual fact the destination of a work presentation he has to make in order to secure a promotion (basically due to an earlier mishap in the movie his choices are promotion or being fired... hmmm not really sure that happens in real life but I guess I, too, would go with promotion). Hilarious mishaps ...  Read the complete review