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Camp
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language),
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Editorial Review:
Charming and frequently hilarious, IFC Films' Camp is like Fame for the musical-theater set. It's set at Camp Ovation, a summer retreat for budding actors and singers who chant Stephen Sondheim's "Losing My Mind" on their bus rather than "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." Into this environment comes a--gasp!--straight male, Vlad (Daniel Letterle), who turns upside down the lives of wallflower Ellen (Joanna Chilcoat), cross-dressing Michael (Robin DeJesus), and instructor Bert Hanley (Don Dixon), a frustrated one-hit-wonder composer. Camp was written and directed by Todd Graff, himself a Broadway veteran, based on his experiences at New York's musical camp Stagedoor Manor (which was attended by Natalie Portman and Robert Downey Jr., among others). The characters are a bit thin and the plot somewhat predictable, but the musical numbers are a lot of fun--older tunes are mixed with originals by Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Michael Gore (Fame), and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical the Musical)--and fans of musicals will love the many inside jokes, especially those relating to Sondheim. --David Horiuchi
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Fun, Super-Talented Teens and Outstanding Songs
I understand why some reviewers of this winning movie find it a little angsty and melodramatic - because it is. But for those who remember adolescence, everything is angsty and melodramatic - it's a time of operatic emotions and overblown reactions. It's a time when you think that no one has ever loved as you have, when tripping over your feet in the lunchroom is an embarrassment that surpasses that being arrested for prostitution, and a single zit on your forehead makes you want to take to bed for ... Read More
Rating:  - silly and predictible
Silly, predictable, and over-the-top, this film tries too hard in all the wrong places. It should've focused on a better script and hired more talented actors (although the actors are pretty good singers, their acting abilities are questionable at best). It might pass for a made-for-TV film, but nothing more than that.
Rating:  - Harmless Fluff
There are very few good gay movies out there. Whole New Thing, Harry and Max, La Cage Aux Folles and As Luck Would Have It are some of the only ones worth watching.
Now we can add to the list "Camp", a cute, harmless little bit of fluff. It doesn't touch on any of the major "issues". No one gets AIDS. No one gets gay bashed (well, sort of. Someone does, in a way, at the very begining, but that's about it), and no one dies. Instead people end up in slightly awkward, real-life situations, ... Read More
Rating: - Wow
Simply amazing! People who criticize this movie simply don't get the point... if "camp" is what you're looking for, this movie is incredible.
Rating: - it was ok
there wasn't enough goodness for me to like it too much
it was an OK movie and i'm glad i rented it for 1.99 instead of buying it for 10 bucks
i liked michael :] he looked hot as a woman
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