the great outdoors be yet another disaster vacation comedy along similar line to every other movie within it limited and predictable genre ( e. g. national lampoon vacation and national lampoon european vacation and carry on camping and and summer rental ) . it doesn not play like a movie with a coherent plot while more like a series of comic sketch and link together by the same character and the same general premise of two bicker family attempt to endure a woodland holiday together . chet ( candy ) take his city breed family up into the wilderness of the u. s canadian border region for a vacation in a log cabin . uninvited and his over bearing business bigwig brother in law roman ( akroyd ) show up . the mismatched pair and their bitchy wife and and their wacky kid proceed to have various misadventure involve speed boat and grizzly bear and horse riding excursion and raccoon and etc . candy and akroyd be able to do this kind of thing on autopilot and and that exactly the way they approach this film . neither actor exert himself and both seem happy to aim for the easy laugh . the kid in the movie be generally annoy and range from akroyd eerie twin daughter ( who look like they have just step out of the shin ) to candy eldest son who be desperate to find love in the wood . some of the sequence be amuse and such a the scene where candy foolishly attempt to fee the bear and end up with two gigantic grizzly sit upon the roof of his car and and the white haired hillbilly who stutter maniacally about be strike by lightning over fifty time . more often and though and the sequence be predictable and fairly laughless . the great outdoors might entertain you if youre new to this kind of film and but if you have see any of the others you will find very little that be fresh here .