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What is the 2nd best summer camp movie of the 90s?
Posted on 7/21/20 at 9:38 am
Posted on 7/21/20 at 9:38 am
Heavyweights is obviously the undisputed winner, based on its high quotability and meme potential, as well as the all-time performance of Ben Stiller. So with it out of the running, allow me to present the contenders for runner-up:
1993 - Addams Family Values
Positives: The counselors, smarmy Christina Ricci, the big finale with the Thanksgiving play
Negatives: It's isn't specifically a Summer Camp movie that's really just a B-plot
1994 - Camp Nowhere
Positives: M. Emmet Walsh, Burgess Meredith, Peter Scolari in supporting roles, reuniting Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson outside of BTTF, kid roles played by Jessica Alba (first screen credit), Allison Mack (joined a sex cult), Andrew Keegan (founded a cult - indeterminate amount of sex involved). and Jonathan "Not to be confused with Joshua" Jackson.
Negatives: Low quotability and meme potential, the kids all seem about 2 years too young for a proper summer camp movie, near zero enjoyment for adults in the audience
1998 - The Parent Trap
Positives: The prank war, more summer camp scenes than the Haley Mills original, the skinny dipping scene served as the sexual awakening for young boys of a certain age
Negatives: Like Addams Family Values it isn't really a summer camp movie, with Lohan it's harder to enjoy the Before when you know how badly the After turns out.
Banned from Competition
Earnest Goes to Camp was the most rewatchable camp movie for me as a kid, but it was made in 1987 and is thus ineligible for consideration.
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) meets the age cut-off, but gay conversion camp isn't really summer camp IMO. Good movie though.
1993 - Addams Family Values
Positives: The counselors, smarmy Christina Ricci, the big finale with the Thanksgiving play
Negatives: It's isn't specifically a Summer Camp movie that's really just a B-plot
1994 - Camp Nowhere
Positives: M. Emmet Walsh, Burgess Meredith, Peter Scolari in supporting roles, reuniting Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson outside of BTTF, kid roles played by Jessica Alba (first screen credit), Allison Mack (joined a sex cult), Andrew Keegan (founded a cult - indeterminate amount of sex involved). and Jonathan "Not to be confused with Joshua" Jackson.
Negatives: Low quotability and meme potential, the kids all seem about 2 years too young for a proper summer camp movie, near zero enjoyment for adults in the audience
1998 - The Parent Trap
Positives: The prank war, more summer camp scenes than the Haley Mills original, the skinny dipping scene served as the sexual awakening for young boys of a certain age
Negatives: Like Addams Family Values it isn't really a summer camp movie, with Lohan it's harder to enjoy the Before when you know how badly the After turns out.
Banned from Competition
Earnest Goes to Camp was the most rewatchable camp movie for me as a kid, but it was made in 1987 and is thus ineligible for consideration.
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) meets the age cut-off, but gay conversion camp isn't really summer camp IMO. Good movie though.
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 9:42 am
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Posted on 7/21/20 at 10:52 am to Muthsera
The only answer is Wet Hot American Summer
eta: shite, just realized its from 2001. But it still gets my vote.
eta: shite, just realized its from 2001. But it still gets my vote.
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 10:54 am
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:08 am to Muthsera
I think the answer is the parent trap. That’s a good movie even outside of its genre. I enjoy it every time I watch it.
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 11:10 am
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:10 am to jlovel7
Talk about a great movie that would never get made today.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:12 am to Large Farva
WHAS is a parody of 70s camp movies like Meatballs. It may in part be a reaction to the summer camp fad of the 90s, which turned the teenage experience of camp into a tweenage one.
70s camp movies were obsessed with sex; 90s camp movies are incredibly chaste by comparison. 70s camp movies were filled with drugs and wild-and-out hooliganism; 90s camp movies were aged-down so that the campers' vices were candy and their hijinx wouldn't seem out of place at a backyard bbq.
Speaking of 70s camp movies, would a Little Darlings remake pass muster in 2020?
70s camp movies were obsessed with sex; 90s camp movies are incredibly chaste by comparison. 70s camp movies were filled with drugs and wild-and-out hooliganism; 90s camp movies were aged-down so that the campers' vices were candy and their hijinx wouldn't seem out of place at a backyard bbq.
Speaking of 70s camp movies, would a Little Darlings remake pass muster in 2020?
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 11:15 am
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:18 am to Muthsera
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70s camp movies were obsessed with sex
Did anyone go to a co-ed camp in the 70's? Our Knights of Columbus camp staggered the boys and girls weeks so that we were nowhere near the opposite sex.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:24 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Did anyone go to a co-ed camp in the 70's? Our Knights of Columbus camp staggered the boys and girls weeks so that we were nowhere near the opposite sex.
I went to one in the 2000s. It was awesome.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:36 am to Muthsera
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smarmy Christina Ricci
My childhood crush, I freely admit.
That said, the 90s were not a great decade for summer camp movies:
Oof...
Compared to the 80s, which was... apparently mostly horror movies?
Well, damn...
Honestly, I'm starting to think my memory is faulty. I could have sworn there were a lot more than this.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:46 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Did anyone go to a co-ed camp in the 70's? Our Knights of Columbus camp staggered the boys and girls weeks so that we were nowhere near the opposite sex.
I did in the 90s. It was a Christian one.
As you can imagine, most of it was spent telling us that sex was evil and your penis was the devil.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:22 pm to Muthsera
It Takes Two is mentioned in that list of 90’s movies, that was always a fun Summer Camp storyline. Similar to Parent Trap except it was real twins and made by WB not Disney.
I don’t recall when the camping was taking place, but a movie about camping that could have taken place in the summer was Bushwhacked. Daniel Stern plays basically Marv, from Home Alone, but manipulating a group of Scouts and lying to act as their Scout leader to help him find something before another criminal does.
I would go with Camp Nowhere as number 2 though, it truly is the Summer Camp experience all kids wanted at that age.
I don’t recall when the camping was taking place, but a movie about camping that could have taken place in the summer was Bushwhacked. Daniel Stern plays basically Marv, from Home Alone, but manipulating a group of Scouts and lying to act as their Scout leader to help him find something before another criminal does.
I would go with Camp Nowhere as number 2 though, it truly is the Summer Camp experience all kids wanted at that age.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 6:26 pm to 50407Tiger
Camp Nowhere by a mile.
It's quentessential 90s. It's kind of the happy version of Heavyweights. It's also basically the exact template for the Justin Long, Jonah Hill, movie Accepted.
It's quentessential 90s. It's kind of the happy version of Heavyweights. It's also basically the exact template for the Justin Long, Jonah Hill, movie Accepted.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 9:01 pm to 50407Tiger
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Bushwhacked
This is the kind of reference I love from M/TV. I definitely watched this at least once as a kid, but could have lived the whole test of my life not remembering it.
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I would go with Camp Nowhere as number 2 though, it truly is the Summer Camp experience all kids wanted at that age.
This thread came forth from me rewatching Camp Nowhere. I hold by my current opinion that there isn't a lot for adults to enjoy (besides the obvious nostalgia) but that it remains a movie kids would love.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 9:11 pm to Muthsera
Indian Summer was enjoyable.
Kinda of like a way better Grown Ups.
Kinda of like a way better Grown Ups.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 9:26 pm to Muthsera
I sure could go for a plate of Eggs Erroneous right now.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:50 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Indian Summer was enjoyable.
Diane Lane and that soundtrack.
Posted on 7/22/20 at 12:03 am to Muthsera
quote:saw it in theaters as a kid, I remember laughing a lot
Earnest Goes to Camp
Posted on 7/22/20 at 7:38 am to skrayper
We t to one in the 90s. It was coed. We would sneak out and meet up with the girls at night. Mind you we were 13 to 14 at the time so no sexy but we would fool around.
But the counselors all were having sex and drinking. Mind you for drinking it was when they had a day off and not while supervising us.
Edit: sorry, a bit off topic. To answer the OP, I can’t think of the second best camp movie of the 90s. I would have said WHAS, but that was 2000s.
But the counselors all were having sex and drinking. Mind you for drinking it was when they had a day off and not while supervising us.
Edit: sorry, a bit off topic. To answer the OP, I can’t think of the second best camp movie of the 90s. I would have said WHAS, but that was 2000s.
This post was edited on 7/22/20 at 7:40 am
Posted on 7/22/20 at 7:58 am to ElephantGA
Does Major Payne count?
Posted on 7/22/20 at 8:18 am to Muthsera
Earnest goes to camp or But I’m a cheerleader
Posted on 7/22/20 at 5:12 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:In the late 60's the Methodist Church camp I went to, was co-ed. I met a girl, and spent part of an evening sitting on a log, kissing her. The next night, when the whole camp met for dinner, I realized her dad was the guy who ran the camp. Never saw her again. Wondered if someone from the camp saw us, told her dad, and then he grounded her, or if she was out there kissing someone else.
Did anyone go to a co-ed camp in the 70's?
ETA: The Parent Trap is my favorite from the 90's.
My camps were fifth and sixth grade.
This post was edited on 7/22/20 at 5:18 pm
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