Review of The Great Outdoors (1988) by Hal Hinson for Washington Post — 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 it go at that. But this woodland farce is just coarse enough, and unfunny enough, to achieve true awfulness.
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This review of The Great Outdoors (1988) was written by Hal Hinson and published by Washington Post on 25 May 2007.
The Great Outdoors has generally received mixed reviews.
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