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  • 2012
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Summary Determined to honor his father’s scouting legacy and mount one last comeback for his dwindling troop, Assistant Scoutmaster Randy Stevens pays a visit to his business-minded brother Kirk, who is throwing a television-themed slumber party for his newly adopted 10-year-old son at his McMansion. Randy pressures the boys to secretly ditch th...

Directed By: Todd Rohal

Written By: Todd Rohal

  • 2012
  • R
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 19 m

Nature Calls

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Determined to honor his father’s scouting legacy and mount one last comeback for his dwindling troop, Assistant Scoutmaster Randy Stevens pays a visit to his business-minded brother Kirk, who is throwing a television-themed slumber party for his newly adopted 10-year-old son at his McMansion. Randy pressures the boys to secretly ditch th...

Directed By: Todd Rohal

Written By: Todd Rohal

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Metascore
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Negative
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50
Nov 8, 2012
It almost seems like harder work somehow to get this many comedians together and then turn out a movie that is only so fitfully funny.
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50
Nov 7, 2012
There's nothing wrong with the idea of trying to make a Bad News Bears for the '10s, and Rohal has the comic talent in front of the camera to do the job. In addition to Oswalt and Knoxville, he has Maura Tierney as Knoxville's wife.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
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Nov 7, 2012
The unmitigated disaster of the camping trip just stays disastrous, the story never really finding its way from adversity to heroic redemption.
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40
Nov 6, 2012
No amount of eccentric Americana (or slyly marginal inventiveness) can salvage this strangely lifeless - and largely laughless - gonzo comedy, which is doomed by a flimsy script, one-dimensional characterizations and distractingly inept child acting.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
25
Nov 8, 2012
A low-watt, low-wit comedy.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
20
Nov 8, 2012
If the Boy Scouts offered a merit badge for inept filmmaking, Todd Rohal would certainly earn it with Nature Calls, an unwatchably bad movie about a camping trip gone haywire.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
12
Nov 8, 2012
Writer-director Todd Rohal fills muddled scenes with manic amounts of jokes that all manage to land with a thud.
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Production Company Troop 41 Productions, Muskat Filmed Properties
Release Date Nov 9, 2012
Duration 1 h 19 m
Rating R
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Tagline Manhood. It's the only badge that matters.
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Awards

Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination

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