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Camp
IFC Films
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Todd Graff
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Todd Graff
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 17, 2004
Video: February 17, 2004
Theatrical: July 25, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
114 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Nominated, Grand Jury Prize, 2003 Sundance Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A summery confection crammed with fresh young talented faces that's hard not to love.

88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A comedy, and for all its cliches and clumsiness, close to a great one.

88
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.

80
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).

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
A hilarious, rousing musical comedy set at a summer camp where NOBODY plays sports and EVERYBODY worships Stephen Sondheim.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The modestly perfect antidote to a synthetic, overblown movie summer: a blast of exuberant fun that stays rooted in humanity.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
It's impossible not to be exhilarated by the energy and determination that infuses every frame.

70
Variety
David Rooney
A big-hearted, exuberant, compassionate film with a wicked sense of humor and terrific songs performed by some preternaturally talented kids.

70
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.

70
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.

70
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.

70
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.

67
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.

63
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.

63
Premiere
Kelly Borgeson
Camp may not be great cinema, but it's passionate and original enough to be special.

63
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).

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
There's humor and expected back-story pathos.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you can get into the spirit of the proceedings, you're likely to find some fun.

60
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.

50
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.

50
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?

50
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.

50
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.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Occasional clumsiness is easily coated over by the movie's overarching goodwill.

50
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.

50
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.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
The film's examination of confused sexuality, psychic scars and unsupportive parents never moves a step beyond cliche.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
A fresh, young energetic cast is this wobbly musical comedy's main claim to "Fame."

42
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."

38
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.

30
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The movie is so rigged to elicit the audience's empathy that it becomes difficult to watch; it's stifling.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Camp has also been compared to Alan Parkers "Fame," which operates with a similar love of behind-the-scenes melodrama and youthful idealism, but different in that it doesnt induce brain-swelling revulsion in the viewer.


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