CAMP CUCAMONGA
Starring: Candace Cameron, Jaleel White, Danica McKellar, Jennifer Aniston, Breckin Meyer, Josh Saviano, John Ratzenberger
Original Airdate: 1990
Type: Kids/Pseudo-Drama
There can never be too many movies about summer camp. That's what I used to think, anyway. Sure, I can only name four at the moment, but Camp Cucamonga is like... Poison Ivy revisited. It is! You've got feuding bunkmates, boy campers who are only interested in getting with girl campers, a camper who runs away (on the biggest competition day of the summer, no less), a female counselor-type who rejects a womanizing male counselor until said male changes his ways, a camp director with a beautiful wife... but I swear, the similarities end there.
While Poison Ivy did employ the age-old "hey, let's get some of our primetime tee vee stars to make a movie together" concept, it didn't go nearly as nuts as Camp Cucamonga did. Cucamonga has Urkel, for one. Not to mention D.J. Tanner, Paul and Winnie from The Wonder Years, and Cliff from Cheers. It also features a couple of people who didn't have shows at the time but would soon.
Camp Cucamonga centers on a summer camp and its horny bunch of teenage campers. Amber (Candace Cameron) is dating fellow camper Frankie (Chad Allen), Dennis (Jaleel White) has his sights set on Jennifer (Tasha Scott), Max (Josh Saviano) is just a bumbling geek, and Lindsey (Danica McKellar) has the world's biggest attitude problem. Eventually they all come together and form a friendship, but not before they get lost in the woods and one of them runs away from camp.
Meanwhile, the camp director (John Ratzenberger) is worried about a camp inspection that could make or break Camp Cucamonga. He winds up mistaking the fix-it guy for the inspector and treats the fix-it guy like a king and the inspector like crap. He falls into the lake a few times. The children steal his steaks. Oh, camp... what would we do without you?
Yeah, so he ticks off the real inspector, who threatens to shut down the camp. When the campers hear this, they decide to save the camp by making a PR video. So imagine, if you will, Steve Urkel, Winnie Cooper, D.J. Tanner, and others... performing in a rap video all about how great this camp is. While wearing neon-colored clothing.
Because, you know, this is 1990.
Most surreal experience ever.
1/1/2006
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