Completely ordinary movie about an exclusive camp called Camp Mohawk. The program director Tripper Harrison (Bill Murray) provides most of the "comedy" as we see predictable PG rated shenanigans of the kids. We also get two violent, unfunny and stupid games with rival camps. To make it worse they throw in yawningly predictable romances and Murray helping a young kid (Chris Makepeace) come out of his shell.
For some reason this was a huge hit and made Murray a star. I can't see why--I didn't even smile, let alone laugh, once. None of the bits are funny--just boring or raunchy (in a PG way). Murray's pronouncements over the camp's loudspeaker are eye-rollingly bad. In fact I never liked Murray. He's just not funny! This isn't a total washout. It was well-done and the acting (Murray aside) was pretty good. Kate Lynch especially was good. Also the good song played at the camp social--"Makin' It"--was later used as the theme song of a similar named TV series. For this I give it a 3 but it just wasn't funny at all. If you like Murray you probably will like this. If not, stay away. Give me "Little Darlings" over this any day.
For some reason this was a huge hit and made Murray a star. I can't see why--I didn't even smile, let alone laugh, once. None of the bits are funny--just boring or raunchy (in a PG way). Murray's pronouncements over the camp's loudspeaker are eye-rollingly bad. In fact I never liked Murray. He's just not funny! This isn't a total washout. It was well-done and the acting (Murray aside) was pretty good. Kate Lynch especially was good. Also the good song played at the camp social--"Makin' It"--was later used as the theme song of a similar named TV series. For this I give it a 3 but it just wasn't funny at all. If you like Murray you probably will like this. If not, stay away. Give me "Little Darlings" over this any day.