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A bunch of fruits, nuts and flakes.
Pranksters cause trouble at a summer camp for rich kids.
Gorp
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Michael Lembeck Dennis Quaid Philip Casnoff Fran Drescher David Huddleston Rosanna Arquette Dale Robinette John Reilly Vincent Bufano Jim Greenleaf Peter Marc Jacobson Julius Harris Robert Trebor Lou Wagner Mark Deming DeWayne Jessie Douglas Dirkson Curt Ayers Richard Beauchamp Steve Bonino Deborah Richter Lisa Shure Rudy Diaz Janet Sarno Glenn Super Judith Drake Robert Elston Four Scott Shirley Gunther Show All…
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Im Sommercamp ist die Hölle los, Campamento de verano, Горп, 疯狂夏令营
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01 May 1980
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“I think all this fresh air is gonna give me a rash. I don’t trust air I can’t see.”
Typical obnoxious sophomoric (tame) sex comedy of the era (1980), having a go at Meatballs. Follows the wacky hi jinx of a group of summer camp waiters (!),
“You’re both trouble makers!”
“Thank you, sir.”Notables in this are young Dennis Quaid, Rosanna Arquette, and a fine looking Fran Drescher.
Came out the same year as Porky’s, it didn’t have a chance. Tons of lame gags but a few did land and made me laugh. All the scenes involving the devoted camp rabbi were good, doubly so considering there is zero indication that this was a denominational camp. He’s just doing his…
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AIP presents summer camp mischief, a dozen silly/gross/madcap storylines piling over each other in a fashion similar to movies previously made by John Landis and Ivan Reitman. Hollywood comedy spent the entire '80s trying to piggyback off those hits, but the formula's not quite as cynical with "Gorp" because it was still early on. Stupid, yes, unlikely to yield many chuckles, irritating, particularly mean-spirited toward fat people, but rowdy and festive at least.
Dennis Quaid seems to be playing Randy Quaid, grinning big and over-enunciating with a brain-damaged malevolence. I was sure one of the kids was Eddie Deezen (turned out to just be a lookalike), until this actor's non-revolting screen presence tipped me off. Introducing Rosanna Arquette! She's barely…
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Got in idk 30 or 40 min of this stupidness.
Was giving me a headache from all the males shouting and yelling and acting like 5 year olds.Stars a very young Dennis Quaid and Fran Drescher.
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Good old fashioned gross-out roofie rape crazed summer camp ROMP!
In the immortal words of Ian: “We’ve seen Gorp.”
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Gorp wants so bad to be Porkys, or Meatballs, or Animal House, but it’s just a shitshow. People over acting, doing random stuff that isn’t even so random it’s funny, it’s just sad to watch. The movie equivalent of tepid backwash.
I can’t tell you what happens here, because nothing happens here: a bunch of kitchen staff at a Jewish summer camp act like buffoons and try to get laid. You might be saying “Sounds like a summer camp comedy!”, but no; it’s just a listless heap, desperately grasping for laughs wherever it can find them, lurching from scene to scene with no purpose. Jokes that aren’t funny are just repeated over and over and over again; my eyes glazed over so many…
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I’ve now watched this, or at least big chunks of this, once a month for the past four months. Why is beyond even me, except for the facts that it sat atop my player for months, and that I love the specific setting (Upstate New York/Jersey Jewish camp) allows it to straddle the line between personal “how I spent my summer vacation” journal entry and crass MEATBALLS rip off (this is still a Samuel Arkoff joint, after all). Either way, I’ve never been a believer in “guilty pleasures”, but this would be a recent one if I had any.
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This is a great forgotten film featuring Rosanna Arquette, Dennis Quaid, and (a quite hot!) Fran Drescher. The specificity of its focus (the kitchen staff at a Jewish summer camp in New York) is balanced by (or perhaps lost in the face of) its extremely hyper nature. Everyone is a total spaz and completely obsessed with sex (take, for instance, the guy who shakes violently while he masturbates for pretty much the entirety of the movie). Everyone is so hyper, in fact, that there is very little appreciable difference in their behavior when they're all on speed at the climax of the film.
I think this film also holds the record for introducing the highest number of "wacky" minor characters in its first 30 minutes.
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The film that ended American International. Also known as SCREAMING: THE MOTION PICTURE.
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Je pense que j'haïs le cinéma des fois...
Ça, ou je m'haïs...
Ouin c'est peut-être plus ça dans le fond.J'haïs pas Rosanna Arquette par exemple. L'étoile, c'est uniquement pour elle.