Summer Camp

"Summer Camp" is an unfathomably tedious "Meatballs" cash-in that manages to avoid characters, scenes, laughs and anything else you might expect to get in a comedy, or even a movie. Chuck Vincent was a porno filmmaker, and he should have stayed one. What you get in "Summer Camp" is like watching a porno without the real sex.

Unlike most boob comedies, this one does have a couple of sex scenes, played for broad laughs rather than eroticism. It is hard to imagine anyone who would laugh at people simulating sex - little attempt is made to convince you it is real - while shouting nonsense at each other. The age group that might think this is funny - 5 year olds, perhaps? - will be too busy asking their parents what those two people are doing.

I suppose you have to concede that this movie does have characters - I think maybe the fat party animal guy was in it, and the stuck up girl, and the guy who owns the camp and thinks it might go bust. You spend the whole movie with them, but none of them make any kind of impression. The only reason why I was able to detect the above is because they are stock characters in every movie like this, so you assume that that is who they are supposed to be - the movie doesn't tell you.

This is for Linnea Quigley completists only. Yeah, she takes her top off a few times.

Funny, in a corny sort of way. Saw it first in 1979. Still feel the same way about it. Wasn't meant to be an Oscar winner. After observing the movie several times over the last 20+ years, it still retains it's genuine low budget laughs.

I really liked this movie a lot. There was nothing bad about it. The characters weren't too stereotyped and the things people did weren't too outlandish. There were a few unbelievable things, but mostly, I thought it was all in good humor and worth watching again. It made me laugh. I'd recommend it to anyone who would like to be entertained just for the hell of it.

This is a typical movie of the late 1970s when camp movies are popular. It's one of those movies that's fun to watch on a day that you just want something that is cheap and has lots of laughs. Acting wasn't the best but it was a lot of fun and really work for this movie. Enjoy

I'm not sure in what context the other commentators had when writing their reviews, but by any reasonable standard this is a near unreleasably bad film. It probably got a minimum of theatrical play-dates and some cable airings over the years. With the exceptions that it was one of Chuck Vincent's first crossover films and that it denotes one of Scream Queen Linnea Quigley's first film roles, very little distinguishes SUMMER CAMP as a feature film.

Mean, tasteless and without humor, wit or story, SUMMER CAMP just glides along stringing scene with scene. The frequent nudity is probably what garnered the film a release at all. The film played as part of the Grindhouse series playing at L.A.'s New Beverly Cinema, and, even with a dedicated audience the laughs were few. According to IMDb, the film is not available on DVD (or even VHS) - and that is not a surprise.