Camp Cool Kids

Ok it dose have a good message stand up for yourself but the over use of trying to fit in with trends and fads of our generation and the acting isn't that bad it's a bad or terrible movie.

I like this kind of move. Really. But, there's one thing that I just CANNOT understand! Why on earth does everyone swim in the lake with a life preserver????

The two grandsons of missionary/preacher Michael Gross are sent to a Christian summer camp which the kids who attend call Camp Cool. The older one Logan Shroyer would like to have a better social life. But Connor Rosen the younger is a nerdy, picked upon klutz of a kid who if Shroyer has to keep protecting he won't be making friends, especially of the opposite sex.

But in this particular camp both boys do a lot of growing up and make grandfather Michael Gross very proud.

Christian parameters were at work again. They tried and succeeded to maje this a fun film. But were limited. When the big kids pick on Rosen and his cabin mates, what they did was good and justified. Not so here.. And the chief villain is a bully of a kid who should have been kicked out. But not so here.

This one shouldn't leave church basements.

Cute, but super duper religious. Oops. I wish there was an evangelical warning on movies like this. Caution: May contain religious messages. This stuff matters when raising an 8yo who has no idea there are cults of magic sky man people trying to convert kids. Most of it went over her head, so far.

Wholesome elementary & teen camp movie. Most camp movies are either extremely crude, sexual, or lame. This one is actually pretty realistic, except for the obviously inadequate counselor-to-camper ratio, which leads to the bullying and pranking. Watched it with my kids. I grew up going to various camps. The counselors are pretty spot on (the over-hyped adventure guy, the laid-back hippie, the cool encouraging head-counselor). Good messages about faith, confidence, being a good brother, and being a good friend. It's nice not having to explain/mute/or clarify anything to my 9 and 6 year old.