The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors

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Nostalgic about the good old days in the honeymoon cabin, the patriarch Chet and the Ripley family set off to the idyllic woods of Wisconsin for the summer vacation. However, their plans for a peaceful family bonding in the heart of the untamed nature will be thwarted, when the high-rolling brother-in-law Roman and the snotty Craig family decide to crash the party. Eventually, as the two families try to have a good time together, a seemingly endless series of misfortunes and ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Great Outdoors:

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

Full Plot Details

Nostalgic about the good old days in the honeymoon cabin, the patriarch Chet and the Ripley family set off to the idyllic woods of Wisconsin for the summer vacation. However, their plans for a peaceful family bonding in the heart of the untamed nature will be thwarted, when the high-rolling brother-in-law Roman and the snotty Craig family decide to crash the party. Eventually, as the two families try to have a good time together, a seemingly endless series of misfortunes and mini-disasters with thirsty leeches, cunning racoons and a mythical wild bear, threaten to ruin the vacation. What will it take to salvage the weekend?

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Antagony & Ecstasy - 7/10 by Tim BraytonCharming when it works, when it is based primarily in the interplay between characters or in the writer's unabashed nostalgia for a kind of cozy Americana.
Miami Herald - 5/10 by Hal BoedekerEntertaining family movie for rainy nights and Christmas holidays.
Chicago Tribune - 5/10 by Dave KehrEven for John Hughes, who writes movies in less time than most people write postcards, The Great Outdoors seems unusually slapdash.
IdentityTheory - 5/10 by Matthew SorrentoAt the onset it seems that Candy, as in Uncle, plays the lower class half. Yet, by [Outdoors'] end we learn that the in-law is actually broke, essentially Cousin Eddie in disguise.
Tampa Bay Times - 4/10 by Peter SmithThough the film never becomes actively unfunny, neither does it do much more than tread water. The raccoons have a better time than the audience will.
FromTheBalcony - 2/10 by Bill ClarkCandy & Aykroyd make for a hilarious duo in an otherwise routine comedy.
Washington Post - 1/10 by Hal HinsonIf the John Candy-Dan Aykroyd comedy The Great Outdoor had a few more laughs we might be tempted simply to write it off as mediocre and let it go at that. But this woodland farce is just coarse enough, and unfunny enough, to achieve true awfulness.
Los Angeles Times - 1/10 by Kevin ThomasThe Great Outdoors is about as much fun as ants at a picnic for anyone over the age of 10. It's a crass, blah comedy about summer vacation perils that teams Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, but gives them next to nothing to work with. If the prolific and profit-making John Hughes weren't the writer--as well as the co-executive producer--of this scattershot nonsense directed frenetically by Howard Deutch, it's hard to imagine the film getting made, let alone attracting Aykroyd and Candy.
User Review - 10/10 by Ron CLoved this movie as a kid. The Ol' 96'er is a classic scene imo.
User Review - 10/10 by Corey BJohn Candy and Dan Aykroyd at their very best, its sad that this movie is unknown to so many. It's a pure classic to me, loved it as a kid and watching it recently it's still a good movie to watch.

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