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Summer Camp<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roadside Attractions\/Comedy-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sexual material, strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Castille London\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Castille London\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tom Howe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Karsten \u201cCrash\u201d Gopinath\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 31, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfred Woodard, Eugene Levy, Dennis Haysbert, Beverly D\u2019Angelo, Nicole Richie, Josh Peck, Betsy Sodaro, Tom Wright, Victoria Rowell, Maria Howell, Taylor Madeline Hand, Kensington Tallman, Audrianna Lico, Gabe Sklar, Zachary Connor, Lindsey Blanchard.<\/p>\n Rating<\/strong>: **<\/p>\n \u00a0Summer Camp<\/strong> is just another tired Golden Girls Gone Wild comedy starring Diane Keaton and a bunch of other 70+ actors. How many of these movies has Keaton made now? Quite a few. Off the top of my head, I can think of the two Book Club films, Poms and the woeful lost dog story Darling Companion. I still hear \u201cFREEWAY!\u201d in my nightmares.<\/p>\n \u00a0The only significant difference between Summer Camp<\/strong> and the other titles mentioned is the setting. In this case, it\u2019s a summer camp (hence the title). It\u2019s where introverted preteen Nora first met her two besties, extrovert Ginny and shy Mary, fifty years ago. Rejected by the other girls (aka \u201cThe Pretty Committee\u201d), they stuck together like glue. They\u2019ve been friends ever since.<\/p>\n \u00a0Half a century later, they still keep in touch even though they don\u2019t see much of each other. They have their own lives. Nora (Keaton) is a widowed workaholic with a tendency to cancel plans at the last minute. She hates deviating from her daily routine of work, work and more work. Ginny (Bates, Misery) is a successful self-help guru who wrote a best seller entitled \u201cGet Your S*** Together\u201d. She still likes to control everybody\u2019s narrative. Mary (Woodard, Grand Canyon) had big dreams at one time, but ended up settling. She works as a nurse at a hospital and is married to a controlling husband (Wright, Barbershop 1 & 2) who always expects her to be at his beck and call.<\/p>\n \u00a0Ginny and Mary show up at Nora\u2019s workplace and force her to join them for a 50-year reunion vacation at their old stomping grounds Camp Pinnacle. It\u2019s supposed to be a chance for the trio to reconnect over traditional summer camp activities like archery, pottery and horseback riding. After arriving and surviving the shock of having to turn over their phones, they encounter their old rival Jane (D\u2019Angelo, the Vacation movies) and her minions. They also see Stevie D (Levy, American Pie) and Tommy (Haysbert, Heat), Nora and Mary\u2019s respective crushes from back in the day. So begins a week of fun, bonding and confronting their dissatisfaction with their lives.<\/p>\n \u00a0Written and directed by Castille Landon (After Everything), Summer Camp<\/strong> is lame all the way through. It starts off smack-dab in middle of mediocrity and goes absolutely nowhere. It just idles for 95 minutes until it finally conks out. Nobody appears to be making any sort of an effort, especially not reality show star Nicole Richie who plays the camp director. She basically just shows up and reads her lines. That\u2019s it, literally. She almost<\/em> makes former partner-in-crime Paris Hilton look like an accomplished thespian. The only one who looks like they\u2019re even trying is Josh Peck (Drake & Josh) as a clumsy camp employee who can\u2019t do anything right. He makes some messes.<\/p>\n \u00a0That leads right into my next point. Nothing that happens in Summer Camp<\/strong> is funny or even mildly amusing. The better word would be forced if the movie wasn\u2019t so lazy and indifferent about its characters and situations. Take the rivalry between the main characters and the popular girls. In any other movie, it would be the main plotline. It would escalate with each group trying to outdo the other before finally settling matters once and for all with some kind of contest. That doesn\u2019t happen here. In fact, this thread isn\u2019t even developed. It\u2019s just introduced and forgotten.<\/p>\n \u00a0Getting back to the lack of funny in Summer Camp<\/strong>, all attempts at comedy land with a dull thud. The ladies sign up for what they think will be a relaxing lazy river experience. It turns out to be white water rafting. Peck is their guide which means one of the girls will eventually end up in the raging river. LOL… NOT! Another thing, food fights haven\u2019t been funny since Animal House. That goes double when said fight involves senior citizens. It\u2019s just sad and stupid.<\/p>\n \u00a0It\u2019s too bad Summer Camp<\/strong> went so wrong. It\u2019s not like Landon didn\u2019t have talent to back up her weak screenplay. The three leads have two Oscars, six Emmys and 4 Golden Globes between them. They\u2019re not bad here, but they\u2019re definitely better than the material deserves. Levy is okay as Keaton\u2019s romantic interest. The problem is their relationship, like so many other things in Summer Camp<\/strong>, is underdeveloped.<\/p>\n \u00a0There is one thing that stands out in this otherwise unremarkable movie. Betsy Sodaro (Ghosts) plays the camp enforcer Vick Cockburn. She\u2019s there to make sure the aged campers follow the rules. She\u2019ll do whatever she has to do to maintain order. I honestly don\u2019t know what to say about her. The character is funny in theory I suppose, but she comes off as creepy and obnoxious instead.<\/p>\n \u00a0Summer Camp<\/strong> is so mediocre and lazy; I can\u2019t even bring myself to hate it. It\u2019s too much energy to expend on a film that makes zero effort on its part. The only thing it accomplishes is it makes me want to revisit Ernest Goes to Camp and the first two Meatballs movies.<\/p>\n Summer Camp (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roadside Attractions\/Comedy-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sexual material, strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Castille London\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Castille London\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tom Howe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Karsten \u201cCrash\u201d Gopinath\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 31, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfred Woodard, Eugene Levy, Dennis Haysbert, Beverly D\u2019Angelo, Nicole Richie, Josh Peck, Betsy Sodaro, Tom Wright, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Summer-Camp-PIC.jpg?fit=648%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Summer-Camp-POSTER.jpg?resize=1000%2C1481&ssl=1\")
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