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.
The Great Outdoors has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Great Outdoors was released in 1988 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 533 reviews, giving The Great Outdoors (1988) an average rating of 59%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 77%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 38%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Great Outdoors a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 59%, The Great Outdoors is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1988, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1988 with similar scores include films like The Lair of the White Worm and Night of the Demons.
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