Scout Camp (2009)

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This movie took the idea of scout camp and completed change how scout camp happens. in this movie each troop send one patrol which I just did not understand when I saw this movie. There was no dinning hall so kids cooked in the campsites which at scout camp these days. Then there are the outhouses which for sure don't access at scout camps these days. The scouts for sure don't try to knock one over when a kids to use one. The only thing that was good in this movie was the spirit stick competition which does happen at scout camps. If you want to see a funny scout camp comedy this is a movie to see but there is no truly behind what these scouts go through during there week of scout camp.

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.

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.