Meatballs
Comedy • PG • 1979 • 1 hr 32 min
Starring
Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Russ Banham, Kristine DeBell, Matt Craven
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I miss summer camp comedies. This is one of the better ones. Murray being as Murray as Murray gets.
Most of this is pretty cliche for the genre but Bill Murray makes everything better.
The original camp movie. Many imitators, but the charm of this sort of built the genre for me. It’s not glorious, but it is good.
Meatballs is the kind of movie that could be rightly vilified for the same things that made it celebrated on it’s I initial release.
A coming-of-age teen summer camp movie that dives into sex. Why are the girls braless? I can see their nipps.
Maybe it’s connections to my own summer camp but this movie is a fucking banger
Classic comedy from when comedy was funny
Bill Murray at his best; a great summer camp flick with shenanigans, a rival camp, and sing-along campfire songs
Just kinda uneventful. Feels thrown together, like they were making up the scenes on the day. I dunno, maybe for Bill Murray completionists.
My first introduction to Bill Murray as a kid. Loved this movie, wasn’t exactly looking forward to summer camp. Still a funny movie today
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Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Camp Sasquatch will be bought out and closed unless owner Coach Giddy wins the boxing competition scheduled for the end of the summer. Tough city punk Flash, who's performing his community service time at the camp, is the coach's best hope. Flash reluctantly offers to help and so must use his raw sparring talents to get a motley group of adolescent misfits into fighting shape, while also trying to win the heart of pretty Cheryl.
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.
Ricky is the hottest water-ski instructor around and has just been rehired by his former employer/camp to whip up attendance. Unfortunately, the camp is in serious financial trouble. The owner of a rival, more popular camp wants to buy them out. Therefore they will have to engage in a mean, winner-takes-all competition that will settle the score once and for all.
