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Camp Rock: Season 1
Metascore
65 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Misha Davenport
    88
    There's nothing objectionable about the messages of the piece: always be true to yourself and treat everyone with dignity and respect. But teens and adults may find it a little saccharine.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Adam Buckman
    88
    It's really a great movie, like a modern-day version of an old Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney picture in which the kids put on a show that improves the lives of all who see it.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    80
    What matters is how well it's done, and Disney does a lot of things right. It's multicultural. Parents are portrayed as people. The intrapersonal dramas are small enough so viewers will understand them.
  4. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    80
    Camp Rock is glossy, all right, and should provide a glow for Walt Disney Co.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    80
    It takes nothing away from this genuinely talented group of kids to express even greater admiration for the promotion and marketing.
  6. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    80
    This is a hit, and has been carefully crafted by Disney to become one. The formula may be as old as pop culture itself, but (again) who really cares?
  7. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    70
    This being Disney product, these issues are dealt with in primary colors, uplifting tones, and production levels that aim for exact competence-a workaday professionalism that's never too slick to alienate anyone.
  8. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    70
    The band has a refreshing scruffiness but except for Joe gets too little screen time to leaven the formula slickness.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    70
    It's all very sweet and tuneful, and took me back to my days as a Hayley Mills groupie.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    Like "High School Musical," it's a painfully simple but efficient fairy tale for a generation that never heard of Frankie and Annette, blending music with teen angst about fitting in--all built around a likable protagonist, multiethnic cast and hot pop trio.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    60
    If only the endeavor felt more worthy, and less prefabricated at some offshore factory where workers in mouse ears plug in the parts: the underconfident girl with a surprisingly pretty voice, the semi-bad boy with a sensitive side, the meticulously choreographed musical numbers, the heartfelt Disney lessons about self-love and self-expression.
  12. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Gillian Flynn
    50
    Camp Rock is so rigidly formulaic, so unremarkable, that by the time the cast sings its finale, ''We Rock,'' it's hard to agree.
  13. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    50
    Camp Rock isn't particularly good, but it's good at what it does. The product may be "inauthentic," if such a thing is even possible, but the way it will connect with a lot of little girls and more than a few little boys is real enough.
  14. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    50
    Simultaneously overdone and underproduced, the movie jerks its way from point to point without bothering to explain the characters' behavior or inject any life into its musical numbers.
  15. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    40
    The movie has some bright spots, but so much of it revolves around the resident diva of the title camp that it's hard to focus on the good stuff; you're too annoyed at having this lazily imagined character shoved down your throat for the zillionth time.
  16. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Jennifer Frey
    40
    Alas, although she's likable enough, Lovato just doesn't have the same sparkle as a Miley Cyrus--or an Ashley Tisdale, for that matter. And though her music is in the same dance-inspiring, easy-to-memorize mode as that of the "HSM" franchise, it's not as catchy.
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User Score
3.7 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 46 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 6 out of 11
  1. AtTheMovies
    0
    Horrible. The absolute worst of the teenage angst films that Disney channel has come up with. Shallow, bland, and very musically tone deaf, Camp Rock sucks very, very badly.… Full Review »
  2. adfbgsdbsgbssg
    0
    This movie is trash.
  3. MichaelA
    4
    I must say that Camp Rock is a disappointing movie, Disney Camp Rock thought that the success achieved in HSM2 but eventually got boring and predictable musical youth, the participation of the jonas brothers seem more publicity of proceedings, since in promos of the film is aunciaba they were major stars, in fact his performance was not all convincing, as joe jonas bad boy when he is an angel of God, xd, is not what the hell I was thinking about Disney Channel, on the Acting Demi Lovato and Alyson Stoner, I must say they were ... good but they are not a prodigy, the songs become tedious and predictable because they are teen pop to rock, i give it a rating of 4 for the tedious songs, unconvincing and disappointing acting, and the movie is only for the jonas fangirls , sorry for my English, I'm latin.… Full Review »
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