'Johnson Family Vacation' isn't your typical family-going-on-a-vacation type of movie.What it is on the other hand is an hour and a half comedy that didn't disappoint and actually had some laughs.It's really not a bad movie to watch.If you're looking for a clean and wholesome family movie, you'll probably be taking the wrong road if you show this movie to your kids.Expect everything from Cedric the Entertainer being partly nude to some brief sexual dialog and dancing.Teens and adults should be able to take the content and turn it into a fun movie that shouldn't be taken too seriously.So sit back and at least try to watch this movie and enjoy it for what it is.Just one question: Why on Earth would a hitchhiker name her pet alligator Twinkee?

A dysfunctional family goes on a vacation on the road, this resulting in a nightmare trip. The way you can make a movie like this is meshing all the clichéd jokes you've heard of in you entire lifetime, adding some building up jokes with no punch line and a storyline that is everything but original. Everything in this movie is terrible. First, you can't relate or identify with the characters. There's hardly any coherence with them. The ex-wife hates her ex-husband, and while he's trying to win her back, she pulls a juvenile prank on him (taking his bathing suit away and leaving him in the hot tub), and when she later sees his room and the pseudo-romantic atmosphere, she's touched. WHAT THE HELL. The little girl, a sad rip-off of Kady, from My Wife & Kids, was so annoying, I couldn't figure out why the father loved her so much. Lil Bow Wow is such a lousy actor, he couldn't play a teenager (which he is in reality). The whole acting sucked. It was extensively dramatic most of the parts, and when there was supposed to be funny stuff, they just don't do anything to emphasize the comedy (like there was any). None of the jokes were funny at all. The ones that can steal a chuckle are those you heard a thousand times before. The producers probably were in conflict with the writers and ended up filming jokes that weren't supposed to be in. The story was completely pointless, and nothing made sense. Why would somebody light a flare inside a hotel room? I was hoping that this would result in something like burning down the hotel, just like in Gone Fishin', but actually, nothing happens. If a weird girl carpools with you and makes a semi-satanic prayer to say grace, any God fearing Christian family would ditch her at the restaurant and drive away, but in the movie, they drag her along everywhere they go. If you see that the old Indian camp you used to go as a kid is turned into a casino, why would you give money to someone to see "real Indians", when there's obviously no Indians around at all? Why would you listen to eight tracks if you already have CD's with your favorite music? I knew it wasn't going to be a masterpiece after seeing the DVD label, but it still surprised me, after seeing Cedric the Entertainer could be so bad. the whole work was disgustingly not funny, and I have the feeling the writers stole a copy of the script for National Lampoon's Vacation and changed the characters from white to black. Not even Cedric's "witty" remarks made me crack up (except for "you need a condom to hear that music"). The whole film reminded of another one I loathed after watching glimpses of it on a bus trip to Mexico City: RV (sadly, the same exact movie, but with Robin Williams and without the little girl). I have a field day with bad movies, and this one is just another one for my list. However, I enjoy trashing them, NOT WATCHING THEM. This is supposed to be a family comedy. Trust me, you'll do your family a favor by not playing this in your home.

This movie is so lame, so cobbled together, so lazy that it is truly one of the worst comedies made in the past decade. Cedric might have to sell The Entertainer part of his name soon if he keeps making crap like this and The Honeymooners. I mean, give it up, you are not a LEAD. As part of an ensemble, you are terrific (as Cedric proved in Barbershop) but the first thing they do is take a live wire like Cedric and have his father character in this movie be rather straight laced and conservative. Great - yes, let's smooth over all the rough edges that make this comic interesting. Of course, the minute a gag needs him to be leering and lewd, he does. There is no character reality in ANY of the characters. Lame, obvious gags unfold like you are watching an old vaudeville routine or a Popeye cartoon. They're good, Steve Harvey's bad, so let's watch what happens. Also, there is a TERRIBLE subplot where a guy is basically stalking Cedric's wife - Vanessa Williams. And at the end when the guy shows up at the family reunion in a huge semi and basically runs over the reunion - he gets out with flowers and claiming his love for Cedric's wife. So what happens. Well, Cedric's Momma - you know those heavy set chuckling mommas that Hollywood movies have to have - well, she walks up and slugs the stalker in the face - he gets knocked out and that is their solution to the problem. Yes,let's forget that he will eventually wake up and probably be even more adamant to bother the woman but what the heck - violence solves everything - especially when it's one of those funny one punch, quick knockout punches. Hee hee. And of course, at the end everyone changes and learns a lesson not because it has been written that way for these characters to develop but only because it is the end of the movie and time for this stuff to happen anyway. So false, so not funny. Awful.

This movie, was so bad my fiancé was asking me to turn it off and put her out of her misery. I would have but i figured i suffered through the first half of it, why not treat it like a visit to the dentist, and enjoy the pain. That is exactly what watching this movie was Painful, not funny at all, from the Rubber alligator to the Retardedly Big Hamburgers, Bow wows lack of acting skills, hell he doesn't have any skill, except making young black teenage girls get dizzy. This movie makes the Snoop Dawg airline film look good, and i thought that was impossible. While it is commendable to make a film without cursing, at least make it funny. I mean steve martin can make a movie without cursing and its hilarious.