Camp movie review

Directed by

Todd Graff
Ratings / Reviews

aelst's review

This is a story about camp Ovation, where kids spend their summer singing, dancing and acting. The main kid characters have trouble belonging in society, because they are either gay, ugly, or attention seekers. So in this camp, they are happy as they can be themselves.

There are some funny moments here and there, it felt like a kids movie for adults, as the jokes seem a bit wrong..

If I enjoyed musicals, then I might've got something out of this. 1 out of 5 stars.

ratbag's review

Camp is like a Double Whopper with Cheese -- cheesy, low on nutrition, and probably will be better appreciated by adolescents. First off, I have to admit I am biased against movies with singing and dancing ... and also I'm also not a big fan of the teenage / college genre, however I will try not to let that blind me to the other merits the film might have.

Unlike Meatballs and countless other movies about summer camps, the kids at Camp Ovation do not spend their time at the camp ogling at breasts, playing pranks, sneaking into the girls' camps and traumatising the weediest kid. Instead, they spend the whole day rehearsing for plays, singing and dancing. All the kids at the camp are either gay, overweight, "plain-looking" or have personality problems. The only one who can be considered "normal" is a poster pin-up boy-band material kid, who the other kids view as being "perfect" -- although he is shown to have some kind of personality problem later on.

Camp is mildly entertaining (my favorite bit in the film is when Fritzi, a clingy, scary little girl turns against her Britney-lookalike protege) -- none of the songs stuck (luckily!), and brings nothing new to the teen genre, however, kids of performing arts background would better appreciate this film.