Summer Camp (1979)
2/10
BAD!
7 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
You know when you sit down to a movie like this that...well, there will be some limitations to budget, acting skill, sets and scenery, special effects, and story not to mention taste. Some of these small budgeted sexploitation movies are funny and rather enjoyable for what they are. This is NOT one of those films. I had trouble just thinking up some title for the review that is how plain boring and awful the movie is. A summer camp is in need of repairs in order to stay in business so it invites previous campers under the guise of summer fun to use them as cheap labor. Okay, the premise is decent enough. Yes, we can expect some pretty good-looking people to come to the camp. Certainly, some will disrobe. There should be some sophomoric humor as well, BUT the plot will at least be the focal point to all the action in some way. Not in this film. Here it is nothing more than a plot device to get these young people to the summer camp. We do not see the campers do one thing to rebuild the camp. In fact if not for the "prospector" storyline at the beginning and end of the film(and when you saw him in the beginning you knew exactly what Deus ex Machina was going to happen), you could easily forget what the film was about as nothing in it has to do with the story. What do we get? One scene after another of girls either disrobing or engaging in sexual play(again, I have no problem with this at all) or, and these scenes were really the hardest to sit through, a group of buffoonish guys judging the size of feces in a contest or charging admission to see girls in a shower, or one of the longest, most-prolonged panty raids in film with virtually no payoff in terms of sexual interest or humor. Look, the girls are fairly attractive. They do what you want them to do. The rest of the film is one major snooze. Done by porn director Chuck Vincent - who would go on to do Wimps and Hollywood Hot Tubs - this film is really nothing more than an exercise in naked tedium.
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