A childhood favorite. John Hughes blessed my childhood with a lot of good memories growing up.
Yeah, it's not really 3 stars but it's perfect for a lazy Saturday afternoon and it's Candy and Aykroyd at their prime.
What happens when Dan Aykroyd and John Candy share a vacation together? A funny movie! Written by the late great John Hughes - The Great Outdoors works beyond its cartoonish characters and silly raccoons - it has a man eating bear, fishing, boating, a real family get-together as in 1988, but in the end its simply the brotherhood of these two lager-than-life comedians that makes this vacation worth watching.