Jason_V
Senior HTF Member
Title: Camp Hideout (2023)
Tagline: You can't hide when you're in plain sight.
Genre: Family, Comedy
Director: Sean Olson
Cast: Corbin Bleu, Ethan Drew, Amanda Leighton, Christopher Lloyd, Tyler Kowalski, Zion Wyatt, Jenna Raine Simmons, Josh Inocalla, Joshua Childs, Luca Alexander, Raphael Ruggero, Tucker Brown, Isabelle Almoyan, Justin Sterner, Addy Maxwell, Maya Maxwell, Genesis Juarez, Elle Wesley, JT Underwood
Release: 2023-09-15
Runtime: 100
Plot: Noah is a troubled teen who nearly gets caught stealing a top-secret gadget from some big city thugs. After barely escaping, he decides to hide out at a summer camp that's run by the eccentric Falco and counselors Jake and Selena. As Noah tries to blend in with the rest of the rowdy campers, his crooked partners show up to steal the classified item, now in his possession.I took a chance on Camp Hideout.
I struck out.
I can forgive bad acting and bad writing to a certain extent, but this knocked both out of the park. I'll lay the blame at the feet of the writers, who are so desperate to not offend anyone and stay true to their own beliefs that what they write has zero basis in reality. The plot is poorly structured, the characters serve the story (not the other way around) and the result is something too...cable TV-ish. Cartoonish, lacking in depth, a wannabe Home Alone.
That's about as far as I'm going to go since this movie was apparently made by a certain kind of filmmaker for a certain audience...and I'm not that audience. (PS: I was the only one in the theater for a 7:15 pm showing in the Southern US on Thursday night.)
I struck out.
I can forgive bad acting and bad writing to a certain extent, but this knocked both out of the park. I'll lay the blame at the feet of the writers, who are so desperate to not offend anyone and stay true to their own beliefs that what they write has zero basis in reality. The plot is poorly structured, the characters serve the story (not the other way around) and the result is something too...cable TV-ish. Cartoonish, lacking in depth, a wannabe Home Alone.
That's about as far as I'm going to go since this movie was apparently made by a certain kind of filmmaker for a certain audience...and I'm not that audience. (PS: I was the only one in the theater for a 7:15 pm showing in the Southern US on Thursday night.)
