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Summary: Awakening Passions at Camp Bleeding Dove
Review: "Happy Campers" examines a group of summer campers at Camp Bleeding Dove, somewhere near the Carolinas.The focus of the film is found in the relationships between seven camp counselors. Wichita (played by Brad Renfro) wants to get through the summer by being practical and honest with the campers and without entanglements from the other counselors. Wendy (Dominique Swain) wants a more romantic and ideal environment, which includes having an enduring relationship with Brad. The other counselors eye each other, with a couple looking extra hard at Brad. The kids have their traditional issues: homesickness, bee-stings, epileptic fits, crushes, ogling, lampooning the other sex, reading porn magazines, and the like. I suppose the "R" rating comes from a few mild sex scenes, displays of condoms, and a bit of quasi-lesbian foreplay. After satirizing camp life, the immanent return to the outside world triggers some political correctness. [Though having the one gay counselor tell the possibly gay-to-be kid to wait until he is 18 before trying anything is not necessarily consistent with what the other kids get to hear.] The counselors' acting is pretty good. The standouts are Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, and Justin Long (of "Jeepers Creepers"; here he is a geeky counselor with a hopeless crush on Wendy and is the buff leader of the kids' water condom-balloon attack on most of the other counselors). There is the usual hokiness (like an unexpected hurricane), smarmy emerging sexuality, and happy-enough ending. The DVD had no commentary track or behind-the-scenes materials. "Happy Campers" has a few interesting characters and segments in a familiar setting.
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Summary: Actually OK
Review: (...)1 Written and directed by the man who wrote "Heathers", "Happy Campers" retains a few elements of that movie, such as voice-overs, a reference to Drano, and blue-tinted woods. However, where "Heathers" was a clever landmark film, "Happy Campers" is a just-OK, entertaining movie. It has enough humor in the usual teen-oriented jokes (bodily fluids/functions, sex and breasts), and pretty good looking women, to make it an enjoyable film. It is not really appropriate for younger teens, hence the "R" rating. No Oscar nominations in sight, but it could be much worse.
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Summary: Amazing Movie
Review: (when reading the following please take into account that the numoris spelling and grammer mistakes are do to the fact that it was writtan at 4 a.m.) This movie was amaizing it was truly well made. the cast was amazing (especcialy the hippie... damn she's hot). the script was good the actors really brought alive though. and the director really went above and beyond the call of duty on this one. all in all a great buy/rental.
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Summary: Was expecting much more
Review: I enjoy watching teen movies because I'm ever so curious about how the director sees this particular age group and the misconceptions present in his view as much as in the teens' view of things.
This movie is unlike most teen "romantic comedies" I've seen, and not necessarily in a good way. First of all, the main characters are unlikeable and don't represent actual categories of people in real life:
We have the good looking rebel who's actually not so rebellious after all but then gets back to his old ways (stupid twist if you ask me), the nerd who can't get any (they picked the worst possible guy to play the nerd; he's actually pretty good looking and a funny guy...), the nerdy girl who hasn't grown up yet (ends up hooking up with the rebel but they break up), the gay guy (I have no idea what his role in this movie was), the aggressive victim of child abuse (...), the freaky nympho with a tint of lesbian (what the hell were you thinking Daniel Waters?) and finally the rebel's childhood best friend who falls in love with him and is rejected (the film focuses about 5 minutes of its total 88 on this character... I don't know why she's even here, she has no obvious role and her situation doesn't reflect at all in the real world).
Next up, I think the director is sexually obsessed or something. Ok, I know sex is an important part of a teenager's life but this movie is about lame 13 year old girls aching for sex and even lamer 19 year olds who have nothing else better to do. If I wanted to see hormonal imbalance, I would go watch Discovery Channel. There are more important things in life than sex, and this "masterpiece" definitely doesn't illustrate them. The characters' thoughts and actions are limited to the camp itself and the director focuses too much on useless stuff and tries to create stereotypes, but fails miserably. Most teen movies have a moral side to them, they teach the audience certain values, unlike "Happy Campers". This movie only taught me that it's so cool to be obsessed about sex, it's cool for 12 year old girls to think they're oh-so-hot women, that only the absolute best looking guys hook up (not true in the real world) and more [...]. Also the director makes completely ridiculous situations seem normal, such as the camp leader getting hit by lightning and then acting completely weird, the counsellors buying 47203 boxes of condoms (there's only so much sex you can have in 40 days...), the whole "Don't-touch-me Todd" thing, and so on and so forth.
This movie isn't worth the $2 I paid to rent it. Those who think this is better than the American Pie series should go out more. American Pie was a work of art, this is a piece of [...].
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Summary: FAVORITE MOVIE EVER
Review: I love it. Its about counselors going there and teaching the kids to be teenagers, its wonderfully weird and funny, and worth the money, even though i never bought it only recorded it, but neways it shows how love is insane, and how everything is!!! buy it, its great!!!
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Summary: another crappy camp experience
Review: It wasnt all that bad. It had its moments. Brad Renfro (Bully), Dominique Swain (Face/Off), Keram Malicki-Sanchez (tv's Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Emily Bergl (The Rage: Carrie 2), Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers), James King (Bulletproof Monk) and Jordan Bridges (Mona Lisa Smile, son of Jeff Bridges) star as camp counslers who have, well a lot of problems. Peter Stormare (Eight Millimeter) is the camp nazi and he doesnt want anything to go wrong in his camp. Emotions, relationships and other crazy shtick happens along the way. James King (former model) looks good dipping in that lake..hmm. Renfro and Swain are so wrong for each other, they should be a couple in real life. Bergl is hot to the bone. Bridges is a bastard. Long is a hoot as a nerdy/geek type of characer and Sanchez is nicely cast as a kid who is not afraid to show his homosexuality to the others. Stomare is just weird, plain weird and the kids are brats. So if you liked Heathers, because Daniel Waters wrote it, then this is the movie for you
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Summary: What is up with the price?
Review: OK so Happy Campers was a great movie...blah blah blah. But what is up with the 50 something bucks u have to pay for it? And if u look up Bring it On it's like 85. It's insane. Does anyone know what is going on?
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: One of the best comedy movies I've ever seen. I wish that my summer camp had been like this.
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Summary: Marshmellows and Anarchy
Review: The only responsible adult holding the reigns at Camp Bleeding Dove states that the key to beautiful co-ed interaction is wholesome activity void of hormones ("...constant supervision...generators start to rumble!"). But when he's unable to oversee what's going on, the counselors replace color war fun with [adultry.] You have the naive goody-goody, the [bad] expressionist and the discipline control freak among other generalizations... it's amusing, watching each oddball personality handle the campers while finding out who they are. It's a lot of fun, with enough truth and message in it to keep it smart. (...)
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Summary: A GEM
Review: This is a hilarious movie. Just becuase it never made it to the theaters doesn't mean it's bad. Word id that the studio was so afraid of the backlash from this adult themed teen movie they dumped it straitght to video. Yes CENSORSHIP is alive and well in the corporate controlled media empires of today. Say NO to corporate censorship and buy this movie. It's great.
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