Camp is all about the cathartic joy of performing. Fearlessly wearing its heart on its sleeve, it's the anti-Fame, and I think it has legs.

| Apr 10, 2018

Camp may not be as slick as Fame, but it's twice as funny and loads more honest.

| Mar 13, 2018

Funny movie about theater camp for teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A poor man's Fame. If you can live with that, it makes for a somewhat entertaining experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2003

Fame may seem silly in retrospect, but Camp, with its dippy dialogue and characters revealing even less complexity than the ones from 42nd Street, arrives silly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2003

There's something irresistible about this teenybopping hoofer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2003

Real-world drama campers (and former drama campers) may just delight in this 'wacky' teenage soap opera, but the rest will be more likely to seek out the underside of a speeding truck to stop the madness once and for all.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 17, 2003

You'll have trouble keeping your toes from tapping.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Its earnest acting and brimming-over love for musicals are infectious, and most of its shopworn narrative devices play as tribute rather than trite.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 15, 2003

Restraint and exuberance, joy and tenderness, and a cameo by the patron saint of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Daunting enough to make your debut featuring one unknown and untried talent, but to fill an entire picture with them isn't just intimidating; it's borderline stupid.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2003

Occasional clumsiness is easily coated over by the movie's overarching goodwill.

| Aug 8, 2003

Spiked with some genuine show-stopping musical numbers, and the sheer pluck of its young cast is nothing if not admirable.

| Aug 8, 2003

Writer/director Graff doesn't give the kids much to work with, lumbering them with a script overloaded with gay clichs ... and lazy rip-offs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2003

Graff so determinedly romanticizes his characters that he alienates all but the most musical-mad of audiences.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2003

Another of those summer movies that want to pluck at our heartstrings. If it would just stop plucking for a second, it might be enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2003

There are moments when you're not sure whether you're supposed to scoff with Camp, or at it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 8, 2003

A comedy, and for all its cliches and clumsiness, close to a great one.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2003

The situations are mighty broad, but exuberance counts for something in the movie with perhaps the year's most double-edged title.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2003