Synopsis
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
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Cast
- Janeane GarofaloBeth
- David Hyde PierceHenry
- Michael ShowalterCoop / Alan Shemper
- Marguerite MoreauKatie
- Paul RuddAndy
- Zak OrthJ.J.
- Christopher MeloniGene
- A.D. MilesGary
- Molly ShannonGail
- Gideon JacobsAaron
Recommendations
- 90
Newsweek
This shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer. Make that this year. - 60
L.A. Weekly
Like, you know, genius. But, like, you know, why? - 60
The New York Times
In essence, it's a ragged collection of bits and sketches cobbled into about a dozen plots, most of which call upon the cast to do a lot of tongue and neck-spraining French kissing. - 50
New York Daily News
The frantic proceedings are more likely to have you wishing this summer would just come to an end. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Harmless enough, and its team of actors so frisky and enthusiastic that it manages to deliver a modicum of laughs despite itself. - 50
New York Post
Mostly it fails to score. Maybe that's why no one has attempted summer-camp comedy since the third "Meatballs" sequel a decade ago. - 38
USA Today
The writing here is rarely funny, and often trite and predictable. A couple of scenes are downright disturbing: - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
I want to escape, Oh, Muddah Faddah -- Life's too short for cinematic torture.
