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Sonnenfeld, Williams & co. don't even try

By BROOKE HOLGERSON | April 25, 2006

0.5 Stars

Even diehard Robin Williams may balk at his new family comedy — as put-upon nice guy Bob Munro, he’s cringe-inducingly awful. Bob is supposed to be a typical dad, hard-working and devoted, but he comes off as smugly self-satisfied and sadly lacking in humor. He takes his fractured family (wife Cheryl Hines and two annoying “hip” kids) on a road trip in that damn RV, and they all grow, or something. Equally insulting is their polar opposite, a family whose members actually enjoy spending time together and therefore are portrayed as stupid white trash. Given a script that sounds as if it had been spit out of a computer program, there probably isn’t much director Barry Sonnenfeld and the actors could have done, but does that excuse them from trying? RV is worse than bad, it’s boring.

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