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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Jun 2016

The Great Outdoors is about as much fun as ants at a picnic for anyone over the age of 10…

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By Matthew Sorrento (173) for IdentityTheory (22) on 07 Nov 2011

At the onset it seems that Candy, as in Uncle, plays the lower class half…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 03 Nov 2011

Charming when it works, when it is based primarily in the interplay between characters or in the writer's unabashed nostalgia for a kind of…

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By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 May 2007

If 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…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 Jun 2006

Even for John Hughes, who writes movies in less time than most people write postcards, The Great Outdoors seems unusually slapdash…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 19 Jun 2005

Candy & Aykroyd make for a hilarious duo in an otherwise routine comedy…

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By Peter Smith (2) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 02 Oct 2003

Though 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…

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By Hal Boedeker (16) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 02 Dec 1988

Entertaining family movie for rainy nights and Christmas holidays…

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Film critics gave The Great Outdoors (1988) an average score of 38%, indicating generally negative reviews.

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