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Camp Rock
MOVIE: Disney, Friday 6/20 at 8:00p (120 minutes)
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.
| GENRE(S): |
Family,
Musical
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| CREATED BY: |
Alan Sacks
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
June 20, 2008 |
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
Chicago Sun-Times Misha 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.
88
New York Post Adam 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.
80
Newsday Verne 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?
80
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Camp Rock is glossy, all right, and should provide a glow for Walt Disney Co.
80
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
It takes nothing away from this genuinely talented group of kids to express even greater admiration for the promotion and marketing.
80
New York Daily News David 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.
70
TV Guide Matt Roush
It’s all very sweet and tuneful, and took me back to my days as a Hayley Mills groupie.
70
Slate Troy 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.
70
Time James Poniewozik
The band has a refreshing scruffiness but except for Joe gets too little screen time to leaven the formula slickness.
60
Variety Brian 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.
60
Boston Globe Joanna 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.
50
Los Angeles Times Robert 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.
50
Entertainment Weekly Gillian 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.
50
USA Today Robert 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.
40
The New York Times Neil 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.
40
Washington Post Jennifer 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.
 The average user rating for this tv show is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
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