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The Great Outdoors (1988)

By Nate Feldman The Great Outdoors is a 1988 comedy starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd about two families that go camping at a lodge in the wilderness and go through a series of misadventures.   Chet and his wife two sons plan to go to a lodge that they spent their honeymoon at.  Chet wants to bond with his sons in the woods the way he says his father bonded with him.   Little does Chet know, but Roman and his wife and two daughters have decided to follow them unannounced.  This unnerves Chet as he is annoyed by Roman's constant bragging about his financial success with his investments.   The movie from there is basically a series of semi-disasters.  Chet goes on a wild water skiing ride with Roman at the helm when it was really supposed to be his son doing it.  He also has a family of bears get on top of his car while talking with his son.  While at a restaurant, Chet is challenged into eating a huge piece of steak that no one els...