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Camp (2003)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:19
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Campy comedy that squeaks by on its charms.
Theatrical Release:Jul 25, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $1,566,968
Synopsis: Todd Graff's crowd-pleasing directorial debut pays tribute to summer camps, musical theatre, and Stephen Sondheim. The heartwarming comedy follows a group of youngsters who gather together for... [More]
Starring: Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin De Jesus, Steven Cutts
Director: Todd Graff
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08/07/04
Top CriticA poor man's Fame. If you can live with that, it makes for a somewhat entertaining experience.
08/22/03
Top CriticFame may seem silly in retrospect, but Camp, with its dippy dialogue and characters revealing even less complexity than the ones from 42nd Street, arrives silly.
08/21/03
Top CriticYou'll have trouble keeping your toes from tapping.
08/15/03
Top CriticThe kids have energy to burn, and you can't help but marvel at the polish they bring to a variety of numbers from a variety of musicals.
08/15/03
Top CriticIts earnest acting and brimming-over love for musicals are infectious, and most of its shopworn narrative devices play as tribute rather than trite.
08/15/03
Top CriticRestraint and exuberance, joy and tenderness, and a cameo by the patron saint of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim.
08/15/03
Top CriticOccasional clumsiness is easily coated over by the movie's overarching goodwill.
08/08/03
Top CriticSpiked with some genuine show-stopping musical numbers, and the sheer pluck of its young cast is nothing if not admirable.
08/08/03
Top CriticWriter/director Graff doesn't give the kids much to work with, lumbering them with a script overloaded with gay clichés ... and lazy rip-offs.
08/08/03
Top CriticAnother of those summer movies that want to pluck at our heartstrings. If it would just stop plucking for a second, it might be enjoyable.
08/08/03
Top CriticThere are moments when you're not sure whether you're supposed to scoff with Camp, or at it.
08/08/03
Top CriticA comedy, and for all its cliches and clumsiness, close to a great one.
08/08/03
Top CriticThe situations are mighty broad, but exuberance counts for something in the movie with perhaps the year's most double-edged title.
08/07/03
Top CriticThe entire movie struck me as shallow, forced and phony in some of the same ways that Fame was a phony picture of the New York High School for Performing Arts.
08/07/03
Top CriticInstead of a homogenized, mass-produced polish, boasts funky, handmade brio that may sometimes be cliched but is always heartfelt.
08/07/03
Top CriticThe movie itself is poorly put together, right from an awkward credit sequence, and few of the characters convince.
07/31/03
Top CriticGraff has drawn uniformly excellent performances from his cast of unknowns. And they can sing and dance up a storm.
07/25/03
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