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Camp Rock
EMAILPRINTMOVIE: Disney, Friday 6/20 at 8:00p (120 minutes)

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 41 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Family, Musical
Created By: Alan Sacks
First Air Date: June 20, 2008
Summary
Starring Demi Lovato, Alyson Stoner, Joe Jonas, Maria Canals Barrera, Meaghan Jette Martin, Jasmine Richards, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Nick Jonas, and Kevin Jonas
The Disney channel launches its newest tweener musical, this time set in a rock-music camp featuring the Jonas Brothers.
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What The Critics Said
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...
Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport
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.
Read Full Review >New York PostAdam Buckman
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.
Read Full Review >NewsdayVerne Gay
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?
Read Full Review >Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Camp Rock is glossy, all right, and should provide a glow for Walt Disney Co.
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
It takes nothing away from this genuinely talented group of kids to express even greater admiration for the promotion and marketing.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
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.
Read Full Review >TV GuideMatt Roush
It’s all very sweet and tuneful, and took me back to my days as a Hayley Mills groupie.
Read Full Review >SlateTroy Patterson
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.
Read Full Review >TimeJames Poniewozik
The band has a refreshing scruffiness but except for Joe gets too little screen time to leaven the formula slickness.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
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.
Read Full Review >Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Camp Rock is so rigidly formulaic, so unremarkable, that by the time the cast sings its finale, ''We Rock,'' it's hard to agree.
Read Full Review >USA TodayRobert Bianco
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.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger
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.
Read Full Review >Washington PostJennifer Frey
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 3.6 (out of 10) based on 41 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
adfb gsdbsgbssg gave it a0:
This movie is trash.
Michael A gave it a4:
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.
Rachel W gave it a2:
It's cute for tweens, but it fails epically in comparison to HSM. The most of the actors cannot act, the choreography is plain, and Demi Lovato moves around way too much during her solo at the Final Jam.
Timothy J. gave it a3:
This movie sucks!! The plot sucks. The movie is a big scam, lots of false adverting about the Jonas brothers and Joe Jonas's character in the movie is stupid'! There is too many unexplained stuff! It is a complete rip-off of Hilary Duff's 'Raise your Voice'
Angela P. gave it a10:
It was really cute. I liked it a lot.
Katie J. gave it a6:
The end was very obvious to me. But in one point in the movie I had already figured out a way for Tess to get Shane. Just sing Mitchie's song!!!
Kyal B. gave it a0:
This is really just awful.
