Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they must ultimately contend with a bizarre community of campers.
Executive Bob Munro is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory hired Stanford geek Laird to work for their soda company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie, teenage daughter Cassie, and young son Carl a Hawai'i vacation, but Todd orders him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth from his family, rents a recreational vehicle, and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailer parking area, rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and learning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
With his back to the wall, otherwise-doting paterfamilias but overworked soft-drink company executive Bob Munro, reluctantly agrees to trade his much-anticipated family-bonding vacation in Hawai'i with a road trip to Colorado's Rocky Mountains. His family--wife Jamie and kids Cassie and Carl--don't realize that his agenda involves not only the Munros' comfortable lifestyle but also Bob's very future in the firm. As a result, Bob rents the biggest RV he can find, and hits the road along with his not-so-impressed family, only to realize that anything that can go wrong definitely will. Now, a pressing deadline threatens the family's unity. Can the Munros survive the holiday from hell, and in the process rediscover the importance of spending time together?—Nick Riganas
A middle-aged male and his family travel on a road trip in an RV. Along the way, they meet another family who is doing the same thing. As time passes, he feels like he has to compete with them. As it goes on, he has to think about his relationship with his family.—RECB3
Bob Munro (Robin Williams), a successful California beverage company executive, is struggling with a dysfunctional family, with his materialistic wife Jamie (Cheryl Hines), his spoiled, sharp-tongued teenage daughter Cassie (JoJo), and young son Carl (Josh Hutcherson) an adolescent weightlifter who likes Hip hop. Both kids are always on their electronic devices and nobody has time to talk to each other anymore.
At a company picnic, Bob is embarrassed in front of his self-absorbed boss Todd (Will Arnett) by Cassie's militant friend Gretchen (Veronika Sztopa), who hurls a tub of disgusting slime over Todd while holding him responsible for youth obesity in millions of kids for his proposal to put soda vending machines in school. Cassie had invited Gretchen to the picnic over objections from Bob. Todd is a lecherous kind of person and was already checking out Cassie, and he is also a very controlling boss and wants everyone at the picnic to pay homage to him.
Todd seeks to acquire the Alpine Soda company in Boulder, Colorado, and threatens to fire Bob if he does not promote the takeover, as revenge for Cassie's friend hurling a bottle of green schmaltz on Todd.
Looking forward to a big family vacation in Hawaii, Bob is punished by Todd by having to present a merger proposal in person to the grassroots Alpine Soda company in Boulder, Colorado instead.Todd's demand on Bob forces the Munros to cancel their Hawaii vacation. Bob cannot move the dates as the kids are booked for the rest of the summer.Concealing the real reason for going to Boulder, Bob rents an RV from the dodgy dealer Irv (Barry Sonnenfeld) and tells his family they are traveling to the Rockies. Bob plans to make a detour in Colorado to secretly attend the meeting in Boulder. Before the meeting, Bob has to create a new presentation for the proposal and send it to Todd.
On their trip, Bob and his family encounter many mishaps. Bob uses a navigation device for the trip which frequently gives the wrong navigation advise.Bob's inexperience in handling the large vehicle results in him colliding with various obstacles and damaging the parking brake (due to which they have to put large stones behind the rear wheels every time they park the RV). During a stopover in Nevada, to the amusement of other campers, Bob must fix an unsavory clog in the toilet tank (their sewer dump was overflowing and they have to empty it at an appropriate dumping site. After a lot of tinkering, they fix the hose to empty the sewer tank, but one large dump clogs the pipe and ends up bursting and spreading the feces all over the dumping site). The family also fumigates the RV with stink bombs to drive out three intrusive raccoon.
Along the way, the Munros meet another traveling family, the Gornickes, consisting of Travis (Jeff Daniels), Mary Jo (Kristin Chenoweth), and their sons and daughter, Earl (Hunter Parrish), Billy "Not Earl" (Alex Ferris), and Moon (Chloe Sonnenfeld). The Gornickes, a good-nature but exhausting family who live in their own RV.
Earl develops a romantic interest in Cassie and Carl starts to like Moon but thinking that the Gornickes are too strange for them, the adult Munros decide to ditch them; when the Gornickes reappear at another stop, the Munros believe they are stalking them.
Meanwhile, to disguise his business trip, Bob tries to e-mail a proposal outline from his laptop to Todd, working in restrooms; eventually, a hitchhiker steals Bob's laptop, leaving him with only a BlackBerry PDA, which he does manage to use to compose and send his proposal to his company through wireless. The Gornickes then recover the stolen laptop after picking up the same hitchhiker and pursue the Munros to return it.
Eventually the entire family begins to enjoy their vacation. As they approach Colorado, the Munros begin to reconnect as a family and enjoy the beauty of their surroundings. In order to attend the merger meeting, though, Bob distracts his family by feigning illness and sends them on a hike.
The meeting with Alpine Soda is a success, but Bob is invited to talk to the whole company again the next day. Rushing back to his family in the RV, Bob takes a treacherous 4-wheel drive trail, and gets the huge vehicle stuck atop a jutting boulder in the middle of the trail.
Bob eventually manages to dislodge the RV from the boulder by getting on the front of the RV and rocking it until it eventually wobbles and tips forward enough to slide down from atop the stone. Now riding on the front of the RV while it is traveling at a frenzied pace, Bob barely manages to return to his family in time, succeeding in fooling them, but while he is attempting a similar ruse the next day, the RV brakes fail again, and it rolls into a lake. Bob lets it slip about the real intentions of the Colorado vacation, and his family is upset that he would use them like that. Bob explains that he fears for his job and the Munros' standard of living.
Still needing to get to the meeting, a desperate Bob retrieves one of his family's bicycles from the lake and pedals off. Jamie, Carl, and Cassie are then picked up by the Gornickes, and soon realize how well they get along, when Bob appears again, climbing atop the moving bus. After apologizing to his family, Bob is just about to blow off the meeting when it turns out he's right outside the headquarters.
At the second meeting, Bob starts his speech, and it goes well, but then - Bob has an epiphany, and so he recommends against the merger, realizing that Todd's selfishness would destroy a great independent company. Carl gets angry at Todd and flips him over his shoulder, onto the ground.
Moon exclaims "My Hero!" Bob is then fired but he quits anyway, and soon retrieves the sodden-but-still-operable RV from the lake.At the end, Bob is offered a job by the owners of Alpine Soda, who want to go national independently. And at the same time the parking brake fails on the RV causing it to roll backwards flattening both the police car and the owners of Alpine soda's car.
