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‘Summer Camp’ Review: Star-Studded Comedy Preaches Fun, but Forgets to Cut Loose Itself
In 'Summer Camp,' starring Kathy Bates, Diane Keaton and Alfre Woodard, this tiresome flick does not have even have the modest charms of 'Book Club.'
Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard and Diane Keaton play childhood friends Ginny, Mary and Nora, a trio so stuck in their jobs and day-to-day battles that they barely get to see each other anymore, decades after being BFFs and bunkmates at a camp every summer. For one thing, it’s pretty hard to care about these grown-ups’ camp reunion when the film (unlike “Now and Then”) doesn’t bother to engage with their childhood era in any real way, giving us only a short glimpse into what life used to be like for Ginny, Mary and Nora in their younger years. Among the three, only Mary’s story hits some deep notes and Woodard is memorable when “Summer Camp” gives her the space to explore her dilemmas as a woman who gave up on her career goals only to be stuck in a loveless marriage with a selfish man.
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