Bob Munro (Robin Williams) is threatened by younger competition at work. His boss (Will Arnett) tells him to cancel his Hawaiian family vacation, and join a presentation to a possible takeover partner in Colorado. Bob decides to lie to his family (Cheryl Hines, JoJo Levesque, Josh Hutcherson) and rent an RV to drive to Colorado.

They are not likable people. Cheryl Hines isn't kidding when she says, "Try to remember. We're not friendly." The husband is pathetic, the wife is high maintenance, the daughter is bitchy, and the son is stupid. This is not the Griswold family. I like the Griswolds, and most importantly, they love each other even when they fight. The odd thing is the other 'annoying' family (Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth) that they run into is actually super nice and lots of fun. I rather hang out with them than this bickering family. The saving grace is that they find their love for each other in the end.

As a comedy, it's a failure. None of it was funny. Once in awhile, they hit upon a cute moment. The poop shower scene wasn't gross enough to be shocking, and not funny at all. I didn't have a good laugh in the entire movie.

The executive Bob Munro (Robin Williams) is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory (Will Arnett) hired the Stanford's geek Laird (Richard Cox) to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro (Cheryl Hines),his teenage daughter Cassie Munro (Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque) and his young son Carl Munro (Josh Hutcherson) to spend vacations in Hawaii, but Todd demands him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth to his family, rents a recreational vehicle and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailers parking area, the rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and leaning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds.

When I decided to watch "RV" on DVD, I had lower expectations, but I am still laughing while writing my review. This hilarious movie has many unforgotten sequences, but my two favorites are in the very beginning, when Cassie promises to love her father forever, and when Bob complains that the family watches television in four different apparatuses and needs Internet to communicate among them. This family entertainment has good messages relative to family bonding, pressure in the job and true friends. There are some gross, but also funny scenes, and in the end I really liked this comedy. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Férias no Trailer" ("Vacations in the Trailer")

RV is not hilariously hysterical, cerebral fun or even original. It borrows from National Lampoon's Vacation films to John Hughes films such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Robin Williams promises his family a holiday in Hawaii but his boss lands him with a last minute merger deal so he takes them on a cross country trip in a RV while secretly working in his business project as he does not want his wife to find out the real purpose of the trip. Along the way Williams gets into all sorts of scrapes, embarrasses his family and meets up repeatedly with Jeff Daniels who is also on a family road trip.

Its kind of strange to see Williams doing broad comedy after he reinvented himself as a serious actor, especially one who played psychopaths in several movies.

I guess he got a good paycheck because you always get the feeling that he is slumming it. The film is decent enough, sporadically amusing and some of the slapstick is well done. However it does remind of you of similar road trip films from the 1980s and the original comedic spark from Williams is lacking.