Summer Camp

For a movie with such a talented, capable cast, with several Oscar/Emmy winners, this is an embarrassment. I don't remember even smiling during the entire film, especially as I sat fuming about how much I'd spent to waste my time. The price of admission was all that kept me from walking out, unlike several others sitting in front of me who had more sense. It was like someone said "Who wants to make a few bucks? It won't require much effort." It's not even worth wasting your time if someone picks it up for streaming. This could easily have been a hilarious, poignant movie but falls absolutely flat. Not even sure why I gave it 2 stars.

There comes a time when story ideas seem to run out and then those involved need to save a project by employing some good actors and actresses.

This is one od those films that seem to belong to a second rate streaming service that you dont need to pay much money for.

The first few minutes where the young characters star is quite sweet. The rest of the fillm presents main characters are predictable and boring. The three leading female characters are boring and this is stories we have seen before. I am so tired of seeing Diane Keaton as a over achieving boss lady in turtleneck tops being all hysterical and pathetic at the same time. Jimmy and Vic are both irritating and just too over the top to be takes seriously as real people.

I feel like I've seen the film a few times before on the Hallmark channel with teenagers. This just doesn't cut it anymore. We expect better.

We should have, could have and would have. There comes a time when you should not.

Summer Camp (2024) is the latest dreadful film from Diane Keaton. This one is a total mess.

Yet another one of the old lady reunions, this time it's a reunion at a summer camp where, 60 years before, three gawky girls became friends. Wow. Over the next century they've grown apart. Wow. They all come back to camp and become friends again. Wow.

Keaton plays a PhD head of a research company ... but of course she's still the usual Keaton ditz. Kathy Bates plays a tough self-help guru with no private life, and Alfre Woodard plays a head nurse in a dead marriage. None of this really matters because at camp they flirt with the boys they knew 60 years before and have food fights and obsess about what they're going to wear. Written and directed by a 30-year-old female, these characters are totally stupid and unbelievable.

Bates and Woodard try but the material stinks. Keaton is especially irritating with all the same schtick from her Annie Hall days. There's also Eugene Levy and Dennis Haysbert and Beverly D'Angelo. By the book and boring.

Summer Camp features a promising cast. Unfortunately they are brought down by weird plastic surgery, a strange cairacture supptoring role, and a food fight between 60-somethings, which would never happen. The most real parts of the movie were in the very first scenes, when the main characters were girls.

The premise makes me wish I could return to my summer camp days: sleeping in a cabin, making frieds with other girls, doing arts and crafts, waterfront, and campfire.

This script did nothing for these star players. Costuming was totally unrealistic as well. I would have fallen asleep if I was watching this at home; fortunately I was in a theater with food and a beer.

Senior citizen comedies generally suck, and the exceptionally weak "Summer Camp" is no exception. Motivational speaker Kathy Bates pulls estranged pals Diane Keaton (sadly obligatory for this kinda fare) & Alfre Woodard to a 50yr reunion of their childhood summer camp (duh) with the likes of Eugene Levy, Dennis Haysbert, Beverly D'Angelo. Cue a bunch of 'hilarious' sequences (such as folk falling into food trays and/or out of rafts) as grievances are aired, lives are sorted, and everyone gets somewhat wiser (sigh). Experienced writer / director Castille Landon (who also has a supporting role) really pooped the bed on this one. So lame.