Scout Camp (2009)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

My 8 year-old son loves this movie. He looks forward to going to Scout Camp when he's 12. He knows that most of the antics aren't real. It's just the right amount of funny (no way that's going to happen) and real stuff (like picking up Cheetos that fell in the dirt and still eat it) and the sincere respect of being a boy scout. As an adult, I was a little disappointed it wasn't funnier and more over-the-top, like "The R.M.", but I realize that boy scouts watching a movie about scout camp shouldn't get too many ridiculous ideas to try out. My daughters were not interested at all in this movie. But it's definitely fun for the cub scout boys to watch with a parent.

"Scout Camp" is a cross between "Follow Me Boys," and "The Sandlot." It has a small-movie feel, and intends to keep things very real and sincere. The characters of the film portray a complete variety of "Go get-em" scouts to the "I don't want to be here" scouts. They are identifiable, and true to life.The story was loosely constructed, so as not to get in the way of what scout camp is really like...boys learning scout skills while having fun. This movie is definitely not some formulaic, over-produced over-the-top, wacky comedy. It was real and enjoyable.The flag ceremony scene, when the Boy Scouts conduct a respectful, reverent flag ceremony, with the complete Pledge of Allegiance, is an appropriate representation of the Boy Scout Organization. The rifle range scene, with the Rifle Range instructor who takes his job just a bit too seriously, was played with a hilarious wink, letting you know that Scouting is still "a game with a purpose." I recommend this movie to anyone who's ever had anything to do with Scouting. You will enjoy it, as will your troop, patrol, and council.

As a veteran of the terrible Mormon flick Suddenly Unexpected, it was unexpected that any movie could match the atrocity contained within that film. Suddenly, along came Scout Camp. This movie not only holds the title of worst Mormon film in existence; it is also a candidate for worst movie ever made. It seems as though the casting director thought they could distract the audience from the horrendous script and visibly low budget with two leads who were in decent movies in the past (Kirby Heyborne of Saints and Soldiers; Shawn Carter of High School Musical). Of course, for most of the movie Kirby looks ridiculous and very distracting sporting two band-aids over his eyebrows, and Shawn Carter is not a name any one would recognize from the HSM series, so the attempt was in vain. The movie's highest accolade would be that it looks like something made at a Scout Camp by scouts in one week. But then again, that would be insulting to those, like myself, who earned the cinematography merit badge at a scout camp and came away with semi-decent movies. Certain scenes in Scout Camp have unnecessary camera angle changes that make me want to throw up. Did I say certain? I meant all of them. It gives the impression that they made most of the story up as they went along, probably each morning loading the young actors with tons of sugar hoping they'd do something funny in a hyper frenzy. Sorry Scout Camp, but your reputation, much like the Fire Dragons', is ruined.

A story about a scout troop that goes to a camp and encounters supposedly typical summer camp experiences.This movie doesn't work on several levels. There are many mistakes of a Scouting nature (not using two-deep leadership, hazing is shown, the adult leader is portrayed as stupid and ineffectual, camp staff is abusive to adults, the rifle range director stands in front of guns, many examples of not using the buddy system). The plot is very lame. I could not show this to my scout troop nor to adults. While they obviously had scout knowledgeable advice in making the film, the filmmakers only listened to what they wanted to hear.