My review was written in December 1986 after watching the film on Lightning video cassette.
Reviewed for the record, "Odd Balls" is a weak imitation of the Bill Murray hit from Canada, "Meatballs". Shot in 1983 and released regionally the following year, trite pic has comedian Foster Brooks going for it and little else.
Brooks plays the owner of decrepit boys' camp Bottomout, across the lake from a posh girls camp, whose owner is a corrupt land developer trying to get control of Brooks' camp. The baddie even sends his son to try and seduce Brooks' pretty daughter as part of his plan.
Lame script by Ed Naha has a heavy emphasis (within restrictions of a PG-rating) on the young boys angling to see the girl campers nude, while including idiotic spoofs of other film genres, such as an unfunny routine involving subtitles as inadequate translating ot purposely bad synchronization on a dubbed karate wiz. Even incorporated is a dated spoof of "E. T.", which was also present in the TriStar pickup "Meatballs II".
Brooks does a nice job while the youngsters make little impression.. Dumb sound effects are used to try to generate laughs much in the manner of a tv laughtrack.
