The chaos campers
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German title | The chaos campers |
Original title | RV |
Country of production | United Kingdom , Germany , USA |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2006 |
length | 99 minutes |
Age rating | FSK o. A. |
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Director | Barry Sonnenfeld |
script | Geoff Rodkey |
production |
Lucy Fisher , Douglas Wick |
music | James Newton Howard |
camera | Fred Murphy |
cut | Kevin Tent |
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The Chaoscamper (original title RV ; sometimes Runaway Vacation ) is a comedy film with Robin Williams from 2006.
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Bob Munro is a well-paid manager at a large beverage company where he has to deal with the whims of his self-indulgent boss Todd. His family, his materialistic wife Jamie and his pubescent children, the sharp-tongued Cassie and the not very self-confident Carl, also make high demands on him. He had actually promised them a vacation to Hawaii that was imminent. Now Todd wants to take over the Alpine Soda Company, a small beverage manufacturer in Boulder , and threatens Bob with dismissal if he doesn't help push the takeover forward. Instead of vacationing on the island, Bob rents a motorhome to travel to the Rocky Mountains with his family . In truth, however, he wants to make a detour via Colorado to secretly attend the business meeting in Boulder.
The long drive in the motorhome is characterized by numerous mishaps and embarrassments. Inexperienced in handling the large vehicle, Bob collided with obstacles several times and damaged the parking brake , among other things . During a stopover, they have to smoke out their motorhome with stink bombs to drive away three intrusive raccoons . Later, to the laughter of other campers, Bob has to fix an unsavory blockage in the tank of the on-board toilet . Then the Munros get to know the Gornickes, a camper family who live permanently in the mobile home and with whom they meet several times during the trip. The always good-humored Gornickes with father Travis and mother Mary Jo turn out to be good-natured, but so exhausting for the Munros that they always look for the distance.
As the journey to Colorado continues, the Munros grow closer as a family and begin to enjoy the beauty of the journey. When they arrive near Boulder, Bob feigns an upset stomach and sends the others on a hike, in the meantime to go to the meeting with the owners of the Alpine Soda Company. The meeting is very promising for him and his boss, but on the way back he gets stuck in a traffic jam and takes a shortcut with the motorhome over a steep mountain road that is actually only allowed to be driven by vehicles with all-wheel drive. With considerable difficulty and with a badly battered vehicle, he returns to his unsuspecting family.
His boss calls him and demands that he reappear the next day to repeat his presentation in front of the entire staff at the Alpine Soda Company. But again the parking brake of the motorhome fails, so that it rolls into a mountain lake and goes under. Through a careless remark from Bob, the family guesses his secrecy and reproaches him. He justifies himself by saying that he is afraid for his job and the loss of her high standard of living, and he goes alone to the business meeting. The Gornickes appear and take Jamie, Cassie and Carl with them to find help for their motorhome. On the way, the two families reconcile and finally meet Bob, who also reconciles with his family and the Gornickes.
Since they happen to arrive at the meeting place, Bob involuntarily has to step in front of the staff of the Alpine Soda Company and tell them about the takeover by Todd's company. Following an inspiration, however, he advises them against it and encourages them in their independence, and is then fired by Todd. Finally, the Munros are on their way home with their motorhome, which has since been pulled out of the lake and is quite damaged, when they are stopped by the police on behalf of the owners of the Alpine Soda Company. They offer Bob the job of managing their independent expansion as a manager . Then the brakes of the motorhome fail again, and the police car and the car of the company owner are flattened.
In the credits , the Munros and the Gornickes sing the song Route 66 together .
Reviews
Michael Wilmington wrote in the Chicago Tribune that "it is painful for him" to see the "great" comedian Robin Williams in this "uninspired" comedy.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that he hadn't noticed anything particularly negative, but that there was little for which he could seriously recommend the comedy. Robin Williams seems more convincing in the serious moments than when he is trying to be funny.
“The fascinating thing about this film is that it uses almost every type of humor, but none really. For long stretches of old-fashioned family fun, it doesn't shy away from disgusting gags […] But the comedy is only really funny when the frustrated serenity of the Munros meets the jovial naivety of the Gornickes. A surprisingly virile Jeff Daniels shines as their rustic clan chief ( Dumb and Dumber ). In the USA, the strenuous balancing act between clout and family values was quite successful. Hopefully it won't turn into a new cinema trend right away. "
“Bland mixture of adventure comedy and road movie with concessions to the crude, drastic 'humor' of current entertainment films. Robin Williams can never fathom his role, which lies somewhere between tragedy and comedy, and takes refuge in hollow pathos. "
"You can tell from Geoff Rodkey's script anyway that he must have run out of ideas pretty soon. Whole punchlines and situations repeat themselves. [...] Even the swipes at Corporate America have no bite, because the film too inconsistently formulates the criticism of excessive profit thinking and a purely functional view of man. If it weren't for Jeff Daniels' strong appearance as an eternally good-humored model father of a family [...], hardly anything would stick in the memory. This form of retrograde amnesia has the advantage that the annoyance about a shamelessly mendacious happy ending is limited. "
Awards
In 2007, the film received the Golden Raspberry in the Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment category (meaning: “Worst excuse for family entertainment”). Kristin Chenoweth was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in the Worst Supporting Actress category, Josh Hutcherson for the Young Artist Award in the Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor category.
Web links
- The chaos campers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The chaos campers at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The chaos campers at Metacritic (English)
- The chaos campers in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Chaoscamper . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 493 K).
- ^ Critique by Michael Wilmington
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ^ Review on tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ The Chaos Campers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Criticism on critic.de
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449089/awards