The Great Outdoors

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The Great Outdoors

These 2 comedy mega stars work together brilliantly and also with their co stars. Lots of great highlights but my favourite is the Land of 1000 Dances, just a great movie moment :) They should have done a cross over where they meet the Griswold's getting fuel, would have been a magic moment.

Decent watch at best, probably won't watch again, but can recommend for those on a late-eighties nostalgia kick. Sometimes it is good to get in "The Way Back Machine" and see some of the movies that made people famous, and I liked Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. The duplicitous plot and character choices just didn't sit great with me. Having recently seen "Brother Nature", it is interesting to see a movie that could have inspired it. I think it would have been a lot better with John Candy as an overwhelmingly positive buzzkill and Aykroyd playing a family man. But Candy is sort of the family man of the late 1980s, and Aykroyd is the quintessential New York scumbag, and they do it well. I'd ultimately say it is worth the watch, but there are probably a dozen "back to nature" movies I could recommend in front of this one.

Dan does a good role, and John has a script. This film is great. A little sappy the love story, but the water ski scene makes up for it. I like this film, its worth the rental price. It was a great drive in movie when I went out with my parents. 7/10

It's getting so you can spot a John Hughes script from fifty miles off anymore. "The Great Outdoors" is his, he'd have trouble disowning this one. It has his earmarks all over it: 1) Slapstick chaos ("Home Alone") 2) Teen love ("Pretty in Pink") 3) Animals with human tendencies ("101 Dalmatians") 4) Thick-headed adults (just about all his movies) And, of course, there are laughs to be had here. Candy and Aykroyd as the feuding brothers are extremely funny and their chemistry works very well here. Faracy and Bening (!) do well as their long-suffering wives. Even Prosky serves up laughs as the campground proprietor. But you have to feel sorry for that poor bald bear in the end (get it?). Seven stars. Time-tested Hughes humor and a solid cast to set it off just right. Good use of raccoons, too.

The Great Outdoors isn't one of the great comedies of the 80s, but it's a memorable one. It features some John Hughes touchstones, yet it's missing the magic of most of his films. Additionally, the scenes feel more like a series of skits put together than one cohesive story. John Candy and John Aykroyd seem to be having a good time, though.

I watch this movie, and then i feel terrible that a great comedian is gone.. You can have your kinnison, farley, etc. But Candy, is probaly one of the over looked, and slumped into thecheap renters.. but you know why they used him as the lead in so many.. Because he is/was a kindly looking man, and was from what i have read of him.. And this is probaly the pinnacle of the greatness of Candy. And the whole bear scene steals the whole show. I just wish all the canadian actors/comedians didn't have to go south.. come on Canadian cinema drop the docu-drama and work with our funny bones.. We are wasting our real natural resource here.. Again best Candy flick of all, IMHO.

I was just looking up movies here on IMDb when I noticed that The Great Outdoors had received only a 5.9 mark I find this incredible as I thought that this movie was and is a cult comedy classic. With Dan Akroyd and the late great John Candy on top form .The comedy in this movie is fantastic the scene with the old dead guy in it is one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen in a movie and the gags come thick and fast it is never only a 5.9 more like a 7.0 in my opinion. It takes a lot to make me laugh when I go to the movies but this comedy hits the spot so don't let the low mark put you off checking out this movie as it is far better than its 5.9 suggests and you wont be disappointed .Well thats me finished i just had to write this as I was shocked at the low mark this great movie received.