My review was written in October 1987 after watching the movie on Lightning video cassette.
With "Party Camp", producer Mark Borde returns to the territory he explored in 1979 with "Summer Camp", a Chuck Vincent-directed comedy which briefly shared the same title but not the b.o. Results with Ivan Reitman's smash "Meatballs". New pic, under director Gary Graver, is yet another "Meatballs" clone with t&a added.
Episodic format is set at Camp Chipmunk where Andrew Ross is a horny counselor whose dream girl is camp lifeguard Kerry Brennan. Mostly stillborn gags revolve around sexy counselor Jewel Shepard (who overacts throughout), dominatrix-nurse April Wayne and computer nerd Corky Pigeon. Excuse for a plot cornily pits Ross' squad of nerdy campers called squirrels versus a bunch of campes of the jock variety called falcons. Surprise: the nerds get their revenge.
Tech credits are fine and the cast goes through the paces with vigor. Pic opened on a regional basis this past summer via Vestron's Lightning Pictures subsidiary.
With "Party Camp", producer Mark Borde returns to the territory he explored in 1979 with "Summer Camp", a Chuck Vincent-directed comedy which briefly shared the same title but not the b.o. Results with Ivan Reitman's smash "Meatballs". New pic, under director Gary Graver, is yet another "Meatballs" clone with t&a added.
Episodic format is set at Camp Chipmunk where Andrew Ross is a horny counselor whose dream girl is camp lifeguard Kerry Brennan. Mostly stillborn gags revolve around sexy counselor Jewel Shepard (who overacts throughout), dominatrix-nurse April Wayne and computer nerd Corky Pigeon. Excuse for a plot cornily pits Ross' squad of nerdy campers called squirrels versus a bunch of campes of the jock variety called falcons. Surprise: the nerds get their revenge.
Tech credits are fine and the cast goes through the paces with vigor. Pic opened on a regional basis this past summer via Vestron's Lightning Pictures subsidiary.