As unpleasant and inert as its protagonist, "Amanda & Jack Go Glamping" is a romantic comedy that lacks both love and laughs - and likable characters.

Dickerson, who also scripted, figures out how to overlay Jack's mild midlife crisis arc with the camping comedy fairly smoothly, but the problem is that neither of these plot strands is particularly fresh or interesting.

It's an attempt to conjure the past. Which, in a sense, is precisely what Amanda and Jack are there to do

... provides some scattered quirky laughs, although it strains to be heartwarming and stumbles while attempting to satirize the social-media age.