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Release Date
• USA: Apr 9, 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 10, 2004
• R2: 31 Jan 2005
Budget USD 12,000,000
BoxOffice: $31.0M
Official Website:
Johnson Family Vacation Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some sexual references, crude humor and brief drug material.
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA
Studio A Bird and a Bear, Hallway Pictures
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Other Titles
• Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
• Family First
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Genre: Comedy, On The Road
Tagline: Wrong turn in Arizona. No brakes in Colorado. Arrested in Kansas. It's the ultimate family trip.
Plot: Despite being virtually ignored by his separated wife Dorothy (Vanessa Williams) and out of touch with his rapper-wanna-be son (Bow Wow), his Lolita-like teenage daughter (Solange Knowles) and his imaginary-dog-toting youngest child (Gabby Soleil), Nate is convinced that he and his relations can make off with the coveted Johnson Reunion Family of the Year award. But first they have to make it to Missouri. From the minute Nate hits the accelerator of his Lincoln Navigator, the Johnsons encounter one mishap after another, as they are sucked into the universe of Murphy’s Law where anything that can go wrong does . . . and the catastrophes just keep multiplying. Along the way, Nate is chased by an 18-wheeler out for revenge, savaged by unhygienic diners, put under a spell by a voodoo hitchhiker, taken into police custody for using a “biological weapon,” set adrift in a corn field and trapped in a hot tub nightmare. Still, nothing can detour Nate from getting his family to Missouri on time – except maybe finding
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As its title suggests, ''Johnson Family Vacation,'' which opens nationwide today, could be described as a family road-trip comedy in the weary tradition of the National Lampoon Vacation movies starring Chevy Chase. Unfortunately, this rendition, with theredoubtable Cedric the Entertainer in the put-upon patriarch role, feels more like a grueling road trip in search of a family comedy.--A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
Cedric the Entertainer making the moves on Vanessa Williams in a hot tub? Should be funny -- but like most of this slack comedy, it's not.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
Cedric the Entertainer can be a breakout comic force if given the least opportunity, but "Johnson Family Vacation" tames him in a routine cross-country comedy that feels exactly like a series of adventures recycled out of every other cross-country comedy. There's even a semi that tries to run them off the road.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Johnson Family Vacation captures the experience of a road trip very well: the long stretches of boredom, the frustration that nothing exciting is up ahead, the failure to get comfortable. I somehow don’t think that was the movie’s intention, seeing how it’s billed as a comedy.  --Pete Croatto (FilmCritic.com)
Johnson Family Vacation is as arduous to watch as your neighbor’s poorly focused vacation slides.  --Marjorie Baumgarten (Austin Chronicle)
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 | Steve Harvey
You Got Served, The Original Kings of Comedy, Love Don't Cost a Thing |
 | Jason Momoa
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, Tempted, Stargate: Atlantis |
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Like Mike, All About the Benjamins | |
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| Richard Gibbs
10 Things I Hate About You, Say Anything..., Queen of the Damned |
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...a vacuous comedy questionably too racy for young children but not mature enough for anyone over single digits.  --Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
Hardly original or gut-busting stuff, I know. But if anyone can breathe new life into this tired material, Cedric can. Single-handedly saving a movie may be a tall order for a short-legged clown, but Cedric the Entertainer is the best (and probably only)reason to take this "Vacation."--Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post)
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