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Camp
IFC Films


8.5

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic elements regarding teen sexual issues, and some language

Starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Letterle, Chris Spain, Don Dixon, Sasha Allen, Tiffany Taylor, Alana Allen, and Egle Petraityte

Based on an actual summer camp for young actors, singers and dancers, Camp is the dramatic, hilarious and show-stopping story of a group of extraordinary kids growing up and discovering who they really are. (IFC Films)

GENRE(S):	Musical
WRITTEN BY:	Todd Graff
DIRECTED BY:	Todd Graff
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 17, 2004 Video: February 17, 2004 Theatrical: July 25, 2003
RUNNING TIME:	114 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

Nominated, Grand Jury Prize, 2003 Sundance Film Festival

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New York Post Lou Lumenick

A summery confection crammed with fresh young talented faces that's hard not to love.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A comedy, and for all its cliches and clumsiness, close to a great one.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

At the film's uplifting conclusion, when a stilled voice finally makes itself heard, you can unmistakably feel your heart lift, as if it had grown tiny wings. Camp reminds you that once you believed it would always soar, just like that.

Film Threat Rich Cline

This is the kind of film you can watch over and over again on several levels, especially as you mine the script for knowing jokes about the theatre (it's packed with them).

Newsweek David Ansen

A hilarious, rousing musical comedy set at a summer camp where NOBODY plays sports and EVERYBODY worships Stephen Sondheim.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The modestly perfect antidote to a synthetic, overblown movie summer: a blast of exuberant fun that stays rooted in humanity.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

It's impossible not to be exhilarated by the energy and determination that infuses every frame.

Variety David Rooney

A big-hearted, exuberant, compassionate film with a wicked sense of humor and terrific songs performed by some preternaturally talented kids.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Camp offers plenty of reasons to bristle at its cheery shamelessness, but it's too high-spirited and charming to resist.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

"Meatballs" handled the sleep-away sex stuff better; here it feels like filler between the killer musical numbers that make even special guest Stephen Sondheim smile on his way out the door.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Spiked with some genuine show-stopping musical numbers, and the sheer pluck of its young cast is nothing if not admirable.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A crude but irresistibly effervescent movie cut from the same sequined cloth as "Fame," Camp couldn't be better timed to ride the coattails of "Chicago" to cult popularity.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The sum is no greater than the ''Fame''-style saga of any one of them, and Graff, an actor and screenwriter making his directing debut, is less successful at developing each story than at conveying his general affection for the curtain-call species.

USA Today Mike Clark

The situations are mighty broad, but exuberance counts for something in the movie with perhaps the year's most double-edged title.

Premiere Kelly Borgeson

Camp may not be great cinema, but it's passionate and original enough to be special.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

The film's title is a double entendre, meant to be taken straight as a noun (as in summer camp) and bent as a verb (as in "to camp," an action self-consciously exaggerated or theatrical).

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

There's humor and expected back-story pathos.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

If you can get into the spirit of the proceedings, you're likely to find some fun.

TV Guide Ken Fox

The pressure often shows: For all its charm, the dramatic moments are awkward and the final act feels rushed and under rehearsed.

Village Voice Ed Park

Camp is self-conscious when the teens aren't singing, but the quote marks fall away as soon as they lift their voices.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Has a good deal of the appeal, and the drawbacks, of a high school play. It can be pokey and overly earnest and its dramatics are not always polished, but, on the other hand, would you want them to be?

San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius

Another of those summer movies that want to pluck at our heartstrings. If it would just stop plucking for a second, it might be enjoyable.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Does have heart and enthusiasm. But it might have worked better if it had been glitzed up and energized the way "Fame" was. It's not a script that can survive this kind of minimal, earnest, self-congratulatory treatment.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Occasional clumsiness is easily coated over by the movie's overarching goodwill.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

So strained in its "charm" and "pluck" that you grow weary by minute 15, hoping that the teens whose lives it depicts will stop being so darn peppy or sweetly confused or irritatingly dramatic.

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

Art as a passport to healing may be what audiences are craving these days, but the poultice provided by this movie couldn't cover a paper cut.

Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman

The film's examination of confused sexuality, psychic scars and unsupportive parents never moves a step beyond cliche.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

A fresh, young energetic cast is this wobbly musical comedy's main claim to "Fame."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

Starts slowly, takes a turn for the better for a couple of reels and then, not having much to say or anywhere to go, flatlines into something akin to "American Idol."

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

There's no doubt the cast is driven and talented; some day, it might be interesting to watch a film about what such kids are really like.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

The movie is so rigged to elicit the audience's empathy that it becomes difficult to watch; it's stifling.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Camp has also been compared to Alan Parker’s "Fame," which operates with a similar love of behind-the-scenes melodrama and youthful idealism, but different in that it doesn’t induce brain-swelling revulsion in the viewer.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Charlie D. gave it a0:
This "film" was the worst film I've ever seen, with a cliche story line and a terrible scrpt, it's 2 hours of my life I'm not going to get back.

Aaron F. gave it a6:
Good fun, especially the musical numbers, but the acting and writing are often times very awkward. it's very evident when the film attempts to develop its one-dimensional characters that this is a first feature from writer/director Todd Graff.

24601booyah gave it a6:
I loved the premise of this movie, but the final production was less than satisfactory. The musical theatre numbers were fantastic, "Ladies Who Lunch" was especially notable. However, there was something missing. Sorry to be so vague, but I came away from the movie wanting something more (and not in a good way). To be fair, the actors did a splendid job, but the movie itself just left me unsatisfied.

[Anonymous] gave it a6:
I loved the premise of this movie... but the final production was less than satisfactory. The musical theatre numbers were fantastic... "Ladies Who Lunch" was especially notable. However, there was something missing. Sorry to be so vague, but I came away from the movie wanting something more (and not in a good way). To be fair, the actors did a splendid job, but the movie itself just left me unsatisfied.

Star B. gave it a10:
I LOVED this movie!

anonymous gave it a 10:
I loved this movie for what it says You really kinda just have to look past the movie's medial acting-ironic as they're at musical theater camp. But it just has such a strong message about being yourself and being loved for it. Did anyone else shake when Jenna sang at the end of the movie?

Meagan T. gave it a 10:
I loved this movie. It shows that you can be yourself, thats a great message for todays youth. Plus it shows that no ones life is perfect.

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Camp
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