The Open Road is a film where you know how the overall plot is going to turn out -- or at least, you can make a pretty solid guess -- but the journey, not the destination, makes the film. In this case, the characters and their interactions are fun, but the situations that they get themselves into are not. It's not a bad film at all, but not one that you need to rush out and see either. It's decent, but lacking in entertainment or enjoyment, and contains average acting and an unfunny script.

A bland family drama with a road movie feel to it.

Dreck

An empty, boring, meaningless, storyless, nearly acting-less film.