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Summercamp! (2007)

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Reviews Counted:22

Fresh:17

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.5/10

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: Featuring original music from the Flaming Lips, this entertaining documentary follows the antics and adventures of the campers and counselors at Swift Nature Camp in Wisconsin.

Director: Bradley Beesley, Sarah Price

Director: Bradley Beesley, Sarah Price
Producer: Deborah DeVries, Bradley Beesley, Sarah Price
Composer: Flaming Lips

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For those who enjoyed the camping experience as a youth, the movie, with its marshmallow roasts, canoe rides and talent shows, offers a bit of nostalgia. Others may find the whole thing a little pointless.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
09/14/07
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Summercamp! maintains a gentle, lackadaisical tone that eloquently captures the triumphs and traumas of this ageless ritual.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
09/14/07
Paul West
Paul West
Seattle Times

Brief bits of real charm, personality and camp-life detail squeeze through, suggesting why some thrive in an oasis of animal worship, outdoor revelry and zero-to-hero popularity that forgives a nerdy rep back home.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
08/31/07
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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Summercamp is so haphazard it might as well be someone's digitally enhanced home movie.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/30/07
Kevin Courrier
Kevin Courrier
Boxoffice Magazine

Unlike the intense cadets for Christ and creationism in the recent documentary Jesus Camp, the kids in the sweet Summercamp! have fun!

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
08/24/07
Bill Stamets
Bill Stamets
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sweet and alive with homesickness and high-fives, sing-a-longs and armpit farts.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
08/23/07
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

For all the conventional, nostalgic images in Summercamp!, there are more you may not have seen before.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/16/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

I guess as a film concept it's more engaging than MVD Visit! or Grocery Shopping! but not by much.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
08/15/07
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

It observes the specific until the specific turns universal, and the universal until you find yourself moved beyond words.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/10/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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Poignant and perceptive.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
08/02/07
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A film only a mother could love.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
07/27/07
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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The film is great fun, and the perfectly summer-sun baked soundtrack comes largely courtesy of Beesley's good pals, the Flaming Lips.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/20/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A sweeter, more unassuming movie isn't likely to come our way anytime soon.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/20/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Of all the films, fictional or non-, that set out to capture the terrors and wonders of childhood and adolescence, and the treacherous borderline between them, I've hardly seen any that affected me this deeply.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
07/19/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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With tenderness and joy, Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price capture the precious moments of preteen freedom -- not from parents and school, but from self-awareness and doubt.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
07/19/07
Jane Borden
Jane Borden
Time Out New York

Nostalgic as only a project steered by two former campers can be, Summercamp! is a riot of talent shows and campfires, canoeing and holistic clowning.

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07/18/07
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Although it's hard to be too churlish about such a good-hearted film, Summercamp! manages to make watching kids have fun surprisingly tedious.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/17/07
Julia Wallace
Julia Wallace
Village Voice
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For better or worse, this relaxed docu successfully captures the experience of summer camp,

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
07/16/07
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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At times it feels like a feature-length Flaming Lips video, which is not at all a bad thing, except I kept wondering if Wayne Coyne would pop out from behind a tree and start somersaulting or building sandcastles.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
04/08/07
Jette Kernion
Jette Kernion
Cinematical

Summercamp! is a peek at what summer camp is really like for these kids, but it's honesty and its heart are ultimately what take it beyond mere documentation and into intimate and well-done documentary storytelling.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
09/23/06
Kim Voynar
Kim Voynar
Cinematical
 
 
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