Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Tagline: One family. Eight wheels. No brakes.
Plot: An overworked Bob Munro (Robin Williams), his wife Jamie (Cheryl Hines), their 15-year-old daughter Cassie (Joanna “JoJo” Levesque) and 12-year-old son Carl (Josh Hutcherson) are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a family vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans without telling them. Instead of a week in a tropical paradise, they’re going on a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle.Dragging his wife and kids kicking and screaming into the RV, Bob’s togetherness plan (which is partly a ruse to keep him from losing his job) almost immediately hits a major speed bump. Everything that can go wrong, does. Bob’s lame attempts to navigate the unwieldy, oversized vehicle are met with silence and scorn from his resentful family. The RV life is a far cry from their comfortable life in Los Angeles, and every attempt Bob makes to get them into the spirit of the vacation threatens to tear them further apart. At an RV camp, the Munro family is befriended by the Gornicke family — an irritatingly endearing happy-go-lucky clan of full-time RVers. The more they try to elude the Gornickes, the more their paths seem destined to cross. But adversity has a way of uniting even the most dysfunctional family members and each setback the
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 On those rare occasions when RV stumbles across a comedic moment that is legitimately funny, it drains the humor out of it by milking it dry. RV falls into the category of movies a critic endures primarily to warn others off. Those who ignore the danger signs and plunk down their hard-earned dollars to sit through RV will quickly recognize that this is one road trip upon which they'll wish they hadn't embarked.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The gross-out humor and sass that drive "RV" may not be for everyone, but here's a broad comedy that makes it past dudish attitude. The smarter-than-average script fleshes out idiosyncratic characters and delivers a sharp but not mean-spirited send-up ofthe mythical American family... 7/10--Laura Blum (ComingSoon.net)
...woefully unfunny family comedy, a scattershot mess that marks a new low for Robin Williams—and that's saying something, considering some of the dreck he's starred in lately, like House of D. Watching this brilliant comedian play a hapless boob of a father in such a patently formulaic broad comedy is both frustrating and depressing....  --TIM KNIGHT (Reel.com)
It’s a bit much for a PG-rated family comedy, especially one with sweet messages aimed at families. Williams, running for the rest area toilet, may have shared Rodkey’s hidden motives for writing such an unpleasant script when he blurts, “If there’s a poop fairy, I can make a lot of money.”  --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
...Cheap laughs only go so far. The rest is up to good writing, and unfortunately, “RV” doesn’t have any.  --Jason Zingale (Bullz-eye.com)
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| ...''RV" has teeth -- more teeth than the last few Steve Martin films, anyway -- but it's terrified to bite down, knowing that the paying audience would feel it more than anyone. The movie hints that Dopey Dads may be silly but that the alternatives -- Psycho Dad, Despairing Dad, Suicidal Dad -- are too painful to consider. As for Well-Adjusted Dad, who wants to see that? --Ty Burr (Boston Globe)
This movie has done nothing to mute the idea that the names “Sonnenfeld” and “Robin Williams” are two very good reasons to avoid any movie associated therewith. This included. 1/10--Tony Medley (TonyMedley.com)
This Robin Williams (recreational) vehicle is not designed for the long haul.--Kirk Honeycutt (Hollywod Reporter)
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