Camp Nowhere

Plot synopsis:
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem: his parents want to send him away to a summer computer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence of going to a boring summer camp. Together with them, he hatches a plan to create their own summer camp with no parents, no counselors, and no rules. Word gets out and other kids want to join the made up summer camp. Mud decides to blackmail former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping; he had bought an AMC Gremlin and failed to make most of the payments and is being pursued by soon-to-retire collector T.R. Polk, and agrees to help them in return for $1,000.
With Dennis' help, the kids trick all the parents into sending them to the camp, and then rent an old campground (that used to be a hippie commune back in the 1960s and 1970s.) with a cabin on a lake. Some parents believe it is a computer camp, while others believe it is a fat camp, military camp, or an acting camp. The kids use the money their parents had paid for camp to buy toys and food. After a little while, they get bored and wonder if they should just return home. Mud goes to Dennis for help, and with a bribe, he soon finds ways to keep things interesting and help them continue to have fun.
Eventually, the parents want to come visit their kids, despite being told that there are no parents' days. Mud makes a plan to trick them and, along with his friends, they keep the camp concealed. In a matter of hours, they fix it up and set up different scenarios representing the different camps (fat camp, computer camp, military camp, etc.) Their plan works and the parents don't suspect a thing. T.R. Polk then meets a state trooper who was also seeking Dennis, and they find their way into the camp and catch him. The police are called and Mud finds Dennis running away from the authorities. Mud is confronted by the police and protects Dennis from them, but soon after Dennis turns himself in. Mud confesses and explains that the whole thing was his idea, and uses the rest of the money to pay T.R. Polk, who'll retire with a perfect record. Dennis gets off the hook and the kids leave for home, having had the greatest summer of their lives.

Tags: romantic

Review:
It's a great movie to just sit back and relax to, while vicariously living out on screen the things you wish you could have done as a teen.
This movie is better than Meatballs, or other "summer camp" movies, as it doesn't feel the need  to resort to sexual content to be funny..
Classic Kids Movie.
as a child the movie embodied my hopes and dreams of a camp away from parents where I was in control.
The movie is simply most kids' dream which makes it  a childhood classic..
i grew up in my pre-pubescnet years watching this movie and loving andrew keegan, its one of the best kids escapism movies around and i'd recommend it for other kids too.
I mean who didn't want to be one of those kids at a camp with no adults and a stash of money.Good fun.
I saw it when it came out in 1994 and I still rent it on video.The movie is about a group of young kids who are fed up with the camps their parents are making them go to.
When walking home from school one day, Mud and the others come up with a plan to create a camp of their own.
So now they are all together in putting together a precise parents day without screwing up.I think that this movie is a masterpiece in family cinema.
Good movie for kids.
I'd say this movie was one of the better kid's flicks (not saying that Police Academy is one, but honestly, it's a big piece of crap).
I give it a kids/comedy rating of 7/10 (please note that this is not a generic movie rating.
This movie is no masterpiece, but I consider it fun and light entertainment.
It's a great movie to watch during the summer because it so perfectly portrays the carefree and light-hearted feeling of the season.
Many people have commented that it is the worst movie they've seen; I suggest they watch Grease 2.
This is another of those films made about and starring kids where adults are really rewriting history in a fantasy way.
Well, the story is enjoyable enough, the parents are simple (stupid) enough and the kids all get something they really wanted (without recognizing it beforehand) Not a great movie but an ok time.
I'd be surprised if the critical reviews of this film don't mostly come from kids (or soon to be ex kids) who think its dumb.
Great movie with good values.
A wonderful funny movie.
I wanted to be at the camp with the kids.
I watch it now and wish I could just get away and have a camp like that.
The kids made there own camp and had, Christopher Lloyd, be there camp representative for multiple camps.
Andrew Keagan is in it and when I was younger I thought he was the hottest guy alive so I loved to watch and re-watch the movie.
The kids all get in trouble in the end for deceiving their parents and Lloyd gets his debt which has the cops looking for him paid off in a sweet way..
With a unique cast, led by the ever eccentric Christopher Lloyd, a former drama teacher leads a team of kids to a summer camp free of work, parents or any authoritative counselors.
He is encouraged by four bright but disgruntled youngsters who dread the thought of spending summers being trained to live up up to their parents expectations: fat camp, acting camp, military school and computer camp.
But the shenanigans do not come into classic play until the kids' parents insist on visiting them at their "educational" camp.
This joins ' The Goonies' and 'Willow' and one of the many films that my own kids will grow up watching...but I think if you are watching this film...like me, you are far too much of a child yourself to be thinking about actually having children!.
I saw this movie the day it came out on video 5 years ago, i was 10 or 11.
Any kid could love this movie.
They seek help from the eccentric former drama teacher Dennis(Christopher Lloyd) and they pull off an alternative camp where they can be free all summer.
Starring: Christopher Lloyd of the Back to the Future movies, Jonathan Jackson of "General Hospital", Andrew Keegan of "10 Things I hate About you" and Wendy Makkena of "sister act".
Me and my friends love this movie.
Made me feel like a kid again what with all the summer camp motifs.
My friend Tommy says it reminds him of his camp he went to for about five years when he was a younger kid.
I've seen this movie so many times, I always get it everytime I go to the video shop.
But no matter how old you are Camp Nowhere is a great, funny and entertaining movie.
Jonathan Jackson and Christopher Lloyd play the parts fantastly.No matter how old I get, this movie will always be a favourite of mine.
Camp Nowhere is, if nothing else, a wonderful guide for actors on how to play many parts in one movie.
Christopher Lloyd does a wonderful job playing at least 8 different characters.
Jonathan Jackson, best known for his role on General Hospital, plays at least two other characters besides Mud Himmel.
Each time I expect a formula solution, the movie surprises me with a new and funny twist.
Comic timing is wonderful and young Nathan Cavaleri, who plays Steve, is the one on the guitar in "Summertime Blues" and "Working on It." Watch this movie!.
I just wanted to watch a stupid film, but later on I found out that it wasn't that bad.
I hope you have much fun watching this movie!.
A basic paradise, unsupervised (unless you count a cooky Christopher Lloyd), a bunch of kids, fed up with their forced lived, rebel and decide to make their own camp.
jonathon jackson and melody kay were soo good in the scenes when they had to like each other.
its so great to see where some stars got their starts like jessica alba and..well almost all of the kids in the movie have gone on to do other work too.
i think everyone everywhere would love this movie.
adults, because it reminds them of their youth and children, because it is just a time to get away and pretend that you are actually at camp nowhere.
Best Camp Movie of All Time.
Camp Nowhere was a really fun movie to watch.
It brings back good memories from camp, and it makes you miss being a kid.
The only part I didn't like about this film, it that it was predictable, but all kids movies are like that.
Great summer movie, and a good movie to watch more then once.
Great movie, Jessica Alba's first role.
Why couldn't they have cool stuff like that when I was their age?After Dark Angel was canceled by Fox, I checked this web site to see what else Jessica Alba had starred in.
A good one to watch with the family, but make sure that your kids don't get any ideas.
I would like to say that Camp Nowhere is the best movie that anyone has ever made.
"Camp Nowhere" is just one of those movies that you KNOW will be a feel good movie from the very start.
It follows the tale of 4 kids out to trick their parents and have the best summer at their own camp.
'Space Cowboy's basic premise, for instance, was not plausible but it provided an enjoyable evening of watching for my wife and I, seeing stars we enjoy having fun doing this movie.
It's a kid's movie about celebrating youth, summer and freedom.
The movie has really funny parts, and although kids probably couldn't pull this off in real life, that's not the point!
This is a cute, funny, lighthearted movie, that I've seen a million times but still can't get enough of.
Her acting is a "Adult Film Star" quality and she always sounds like a tone deaf valley girl.I have never enjoyed anything she is in because she ruins everything.
great kids movie.
Morris "Mud" Himmel doesn't want to go to summer computer camp.
The four disparate friends find former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker (Christopher Lloyd) hiding from debt collector T.R. Polk (M.
Then other kids want in on the scam.This is a great kid escapist movie.
I want that Breakfast Club scene where the kids sit down and go into their lives.
This is a fun movie for kids and younger teens..
Film Critic Camille Bajema below: I like this film because it has a lot of super funny scenes and characters!This film is about four friends, Mud, Zack, Trish, and Gaby, played by Jonathan Jackson, Andrew Keegan, Marnette Patterson, and Melody Kay. These kids' parents want to send each of them to awful summer camps.
They are all dreading it until Mud comes up with an idea to make up their own summer camp.
She doesn't want to go to Camp Slenderella!Out of all these wonderful characters, my favorite one is Zack.
I like Zack because although he has a frightening reputation, he's really funny and good at heart!My favorite scene in this film is when the parents come to visit their kids and the kids at Camp Nowhere and they have to pretend that the camp is whatever camp they're supposed to be at!
The acting in this film is pretty good, although at some points it could have been better.This movie is written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald and directed by Jonathan Price.The cinematography in this film is great!
It is very picturesque and I I can totally imagine myself there!I recommend this film to both boys and girls from age nine and up because it is a great film the family can watch together, although it is a bit long!I give this film five out of five stars because overall, I think it is very funny, clever and cute!.
Another Camp Movie, Different Year.
"Camp Nowhere" is somewhat of an update of "Meatballs (1979)," starring Christopher Lloyd of "Back to the Future (1985)" fame.
As camp movies go though, this film has its particulars, it is funny, but to a point.
It was not as well received as the 1995 camp film "Heavy Weights," which was a roaring success.Lloyd is a man who needs money and these kids need time to themselves, so they hire him to run their camp, he accepts.
Did I mention that each kid told his/her parents they went to a different camp?
Perhaps these kids are the same ones from that movie!
A little bit silly but surprisingly cool.Camp Nowhere was in many ways what I exactly expected; a little bit silly but funny and lighthearted family flick enough entertaining to keep us watching for 90 minutes.
Christopher Lloyd is funny and likable while the kids are also delivering some funny and sweet moments.Basically it's a story of a bunch of kids who are going to different summer camps and for some reason each of them is not very happy about that idea.
With a help of a former drama teacher they are deceiving their own parents each time in a rather funny and specific way and starting "Camp Nowhere" for all summer long with no adult supervising.
Of course the kids are just mostly goofing around and having fun (and to be fair that's what they are supposed to do in summer) but at the same time they are becoming friends and eventually learn some positive values.Sure some stuff is far-fetched and hardly believable but who cares this time, anyway?
It's a nice family entertainment which adults can survive without much pain and quite possible even enjoying with a thought that sometimes it might be much better to ask your offspring what he or she really likes and wants to do.
Christopher Lloyd's character could be really annoying but this time his performance is rather cool and enjoyable while all the kids are trying to do their best and obviously having a great fun at the same time.
The jokes are not that crude as they are used to be in many similar movies and the movie concept is not serious enough for real kids taking it as a good idea.
OK, there have been so many movies about cool kids trashing the adults' rules, that another one would hardly register.
No doubt, all kids have at some point wanted to do something like this.
And if there's only going to be one adult at the camp, I'd say that Christopher Lloyd probably would be the right person to have.So, don't expect to see this and have some sort of religious experience (although there's no guarantee that you won't have one); just expect to have fun (that's pretty much guaranteed).
Most of the Y-geners can delight watching their stars at the beginning of their acting careers:  Jonathan Jackson ("General Hospital"), Andrew Keegan (10 Things I Hate About You), Marnette Patterson ("Movie Stars"), Jessica Alba ("Dark Angel"), and Allison Mack ("Smallville").It's also good for the X-geners to see Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F.
Camp Nowhere is easily the most dismal film I have ever seen.
This is the worst movie I have ever watched without a shadow of doubt.
Mediocre Kid's Movie.
I suppose younger children might find this fun and laugh at the gags, but if you're over 15 like me, you will find this out to be a predictable, mediocre comedy.
"Camp Nowhere" dares to hide under the guise that it is a comedy starring Christopher Lloyd!
One of the funniest "summer-camp" movies of the 90s.
Yeah, it's just a silly movie for kids, but "Camp Nowhere" hits right in the mark: the story is engaging enough to keep us watching, the characters are adorable, it has Christopher Lloyd in it and the jokes and slapstick are fun enough to keep us entertained the whole thing.
Yes, this is not as smart as "Addams' Family Values", but for what it is, is a enjoyable ride.The highlight of this movie, as I've said, is Christopher Lloyd: he's a great and funny actor, and here he shows his comedic talents in all its glory, with his multiple performance.Good and funny summer movie, take it for what it is; a kids' film.7/10.
It did appeal to the child in me - yes, if there was a camp like this when I was young, I would have loved it.The only genuinely funny bit is the "Tennessee for tots" skit, but that comes near the end..
The film concerns a group of kids who, unbeknownst to their parents, create their own summer camp with the help of an eccentric former drama teacher.
In any event, the film is well directed by Jonathan Prince, who later created one of my favourite drama series, the criminally underrated "American Dreams".Without a shadow of a doubt, the perfectly cast Christopher Lloyd steals the show as the aforementioned drama teacher, an ex-hippie named Dennis Van Welker who once put on a musical production of "The Silence of the Lambs".
As the kids have to fool their very gullible parents into thinking that they are going to different camps (computer, weight loss, military and theatrical), Lloyd's considerable skills as a comic actor are called upon when he has to imitate the various camp leaders.
Lloyd gets most of the best lines and funniest scenes in the film.
It is not just played for laughs, however, as he has a very sweet romance with Dr. Celeste Dunbar, played very well by Wendy Makkena, which reminded me somewhat of Doc's relationship with Clara in "Back to the Future Part III".Jonathan Jackson is very good as Morris "Mud" Himmel, the boy who came up with the idea of Camp Nowhere in the first place.
Andrew Keegan and Marnette Patterson round out the younger cast as the troublemaker Zack Dell and the Valley Girl Trish Prescott, both of whom are revealed to be little more complicated than they first appear as the film progresses.
Patterson is the weakest of the main four kid cast members but she is still quite good.
She, Jackson and Keegan seemed to be in every live action kids' shows and film in the 1990s, incidentally.
He has less than a minute's screen time but he is still the best thing about the film other than Lloyd, which says a lot.
It also features nice small appearances from Peter Scolari, Peter Onorati, Jonathan Frakes and his wife (and Jackson's "General Hospital" co-star) Genie Francis.Overall, there is a very fun film which has some very clever moments which I did not appreciate when I was younger such as the extremely funny "Tennessee for Tots" production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and aforementioned "The Silence of the Lambs" joke.
Another little moment that I loved was one of the kids confusing "Star Trek IV" with "Rocky IV"!
This was an awesome kids movie, it was every kids dream come true, No parents, Plenty of money, and a camp counselor that has traveled through time.
So the premise is all these rich kids have to go to camp in the summer and their dreading it.
A plan is organized so all the parents Think there going away to their respective camps, but instead they take the money and rent out a lodge for the entire summer to cause mayhem.
The summer goes as planned, kids curb their boring specialties (playing the cello, using computers) and use their parents camp money on video games, electric guitar's, wide screen televisions, probably a thousand pizza's and of course a whole line of Nerf products!
. four kids can't find a good summer camp, so they make their own, with just a little bit of help from a certain someone..
Ever notice how you watch a movie?
And the kids on it, /around/ your age, seem pretty 'good looking'?