Review of The Great Outdoors (1988) by Brandon W — 04 Jan 2017

Growing up, and still to this day, every summer my family and I would visit our cousin's cabin up at Shuswap Lake. This film reminds me about all the shenanigans that normally goes down on a trip up to the lake.

Boating, fishing, wild animals, all that great stuff. Sure most of these jokes involving those things have been done to death before, but you still enjoy watching these characters experience them. That's because John Candy and Dan Aykroyd are both extremely charismatic in their roles.

Yes the story has been done to death and you generally know where the film is going, and yes not all the jokes are laugh out loud hilarious, but you have a smile on your face from start to finish. For that reason alone, I would recommend it.

I would fit this into the "Old VHS tape at the lake" kind of films. That's where this film will have it's best viewing experience. A fun watch!