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Title: RV (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Robin Williams | ... | Bob Munro | |
| Cheryl Hines | ... | Jamie Munro | |
| JoJo | ... | Cassie Munro (as Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque) | |
| Josh Hutcherson | ... | Carl Munro | |
| Jeff Daniels | ... | Travis Gornicke | |
| Kristin Chenoweth | ... | Mary Jo Gornicke | |
| Hunter Parrish | ... | Earl Gornicke | |
| Chloe Sonnenfeld | ... | Moon Gornicke | |
| Alex Ferris | ... | Billy Gornicke | |
| Will Arnett | ... | Todd Mallory | |
| Tony Hale | ... | Frank | |
| Brian Howe | ... | Marty | |
| Richard Ian Cox | ... | Laird (as Richard Cox) | |
| Erika-Shaye Gair | ... | Cassie (age 5) (as Erika-Shayne Gair) | |
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Veronika Sztopa | ... | Gretchen |
The executive Bob Munro is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory hired the Stanford's geek Laird to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro, his teenage daughter Cassie Munro and his young son Carl Munro 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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The movie's advertising poster somehow made me think this film was going to be like the Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz classic, The Long, Long Trailer, a movie I had long loved. As it turns out, this film really wasn't like that one, but I enjoyed it anyway. While it was loaded with sometimes predictable slapstick comedy and was kind of heavy on potty situation jokes (but definitely not entirely, there was adult humor, too), there were some lines in there that were really great, particularly the ones uttered by Joanna Levesque (whose delivery was such that I found myself laughing again over some of her lines when I thought about them later), who played the daughter, and who was beautiful, by the way. Cheryl Hines as the wife had some great lines, too, and I enjoyed her quirky beauty and great personality. Josh Hutcherson, whom I first saw and enjoyed in Zathura, playing the son in this movie, is revealing himself to be quite a good actor, and I see that he has been cast in the upcoming film based on the award-winning children's novel, Bridge to Terabithia, which is likely to be a plum role for him.
Robin Williams in his films can sometimes be irritating, but he can also be extremely funny, particularly in the way he uses his voice, and in this film, I didn't think he was ever irritating, and I particularly liked his "hip hop" or "homeboy" routine in this film.
I mostly enjoyed this movie for the pleasure of being with the people in it, including all members of the Gornicke family, whose generosity of spirit I appreciated, and I thought they had a real cool bus. The truth is that a road trip in an RV like this can be lots of fun for a family, and exploring what America has to offer is a great thing to do. In this film, the stunning "Colorado" scenery (really Canada) was quite appealing and made me want to go to the Rockies this summer.
The movie had a great soundtrack and I also noticed some clever sound effects that made the comedy situations even funnier.
All in all, this movie has a great heart and is a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it a lot, as did the audience in the theater when I saw it.