The Great Outdoors

1988

Action / Adventure / Comedy

40
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 39 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 56908 56.9K

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Plot summary

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

Director

Howard Deutch Photo
Howard Deutch

Top cast

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John Bloom as Jimbo
Lewis Arquette Photo
Lewis Arquette as Herm
John Candy Photo
John Candy as Chet Ripley
Annette Bening Photo
Annette Bening as Kate Craig
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671.92 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 12
1.38 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 37

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Phills2 4 / 10

If you took a Vacation film and filled

If you took a Vacation film and filled in the blanks with different character names and places, you'd have a movie like this. It has all of the same ingredients but the emotional feeling behind them is lost. John Candy could play the Griswold part, Dan Ankryd the Cousine Eddie part, a different girl plays Rusty's girlfriend he meets in Europe, and so forth. I don't even recognize who plays the part of John Candy's screen wife for this outdoor adventure, but she really looks terrible. The chance romantic meeting of their son, Buck, looks forced into the story.
Reviewed by kevin2019 5 / 10

The Great Outdoors" is only a moderately entertaining

"The Great Outdoors" is only a moderately entertaining film, although it does feature the unforgettably spectacular sight of John Candy water skiing. The grizzly bear action also works well and there is always an enthusiastic energy about this film which every member of the cast effortlessly maintains, but in terms of John Hughes's output this entry is not one of his more memorable outings and some of it does feel like miscellaneous bottom drawer material that has so far gone unused until now. He has done a reasonable job of using such material - if this indeed happens to be the case - as the basis for a mildly amusing film which is as watchable as it is because of Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. They are the ones who keep you watching even though you know everyone involved in front and behind the cameras has done so much better work elsewhere.
Reviewed by Kamurai 4 / 10

Decent watch at best, probably won't watch again

Decent watch at best, probably won't watch again, but can recommend for those on a late-eighties nostalgia kick. Sometimes it is good to get in "The Way Back Machine" and see some of the movies that made people famous, and I liked Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. The duplicitous plot and character choices just didn't sit great with me. Having recently seen "Brother Nature", it is interesting to see a movie that could have inspired it. I think it would have been a lot better with John Candy as an overwhelmingly positive buzzkill and Aykroyd playing a family man. But Candy is sort of the family man of the late 1980s, and Aykroyd is the quintessential New York scumbag, and they do it well. I'd ultimately say it is worth the watch, but there are probably a dozen "back to nature" movies I could recommend in front of this one.
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