Five movies show summer isn’t all fun and games

These flicks will make you want to stay at home instead of going on vacation

Jeff Kinney learned a valuable lesson while researching an upcoming Diary of a Wimpy Kid book that takes place during an exotic Mexican resort vacation.

The author grasped that people toiling in office cubicles really don’t want to see boasting vacation posts on Facebook.

“I’ve learned that everybody loves to hear about someone’s bad vacation, how they put all this money down and had a rotten time,” he says. “It makes you feel better about your own miserable life.”

Hollywood is here to help with a summer that’s been filled with disastrous expeditions, including Kinney’s American road-trip saga Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. Here are five of the worst recent on-screen vacations: