In short, "The Great Outdoors" has the wit of "Summer Rental" and the sparkle of "Harry and the Hendersons."

| Jun 16, 2023

"The Great Outdoors" succeeds as a perfect summer's movie: not too deep, not too long, not too verbally witty or politically witty, not too embarrassing, not too sexy. Just a good time in air conditioning.

| Jun 16, 2023

It's impossible to watch Candy and not laugh, even when the shtick is as stock as bear chases and bat combat.

| Jun 16, 2023

Like an early-summer fly, it can be brushed off easily.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 16, 2023

A generally good time for the viewer who is willing to swallow a dose of slapstick hooey.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 16, 2023

The spots of slapstick are mixed up with domestic sitcom, the teenage son's fumbling romantic progress and familial sentiment to fuddling and tedious effect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2023

The Aykroyd-Candy pairing is charmed.

| Jun 16, 2023

Aykroyd and Candy, who can be hilarious, should have been choosier.

| Jun 16, 2023

It's a film in which the raccoons, whose conversation is subtitled (''Rocks on top of the garbage cans.'' ''That never works.'' ''We'll just knock the cans over.''), are funnier than the people.

| May 20, 2003

Imagine that it's raining cats and dogs and you're locked in a north woods cabin for weeks with the people you like least, and you'll pretty much have a feel for what it's like to sit through this movie.

| Jan 1, 2000