Summer holiday 2000 movies6/14/2023 ![]() Jim Varney’s inept Podunk character Ernest has not aged especially well (and neither has this movie’s depiction of Kamp Kikakee’s founder, Chief St. (Most of them have first kisses, too, thanks to all those girlfriends at summer camp that the other kids figured were made up.) Ahead, we rank the most memorable camp movies, from worst to best. What makes a summer-camp movie great has less to do with the experience of applying bug spray and learning to swim in the lake, and more to do with celebrating childhood, rebellion, groups of scrappy outsiders pitted against the more popular, and like-minded people banding together to make something impossible and wonderful happen. With summer fully here, we thought it time we revisit some of those camps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Photo: Maya Robinson and Photos by Columbia Pictures, Focus Features, Eureka Pictures, Paramount Pictures and DisneyĮven if you spent your summers on the couch watching reruns of The Price Is Right with your babysitter Sonia who smelled like sweat and cheese balls stuck in braces instead of going to summer camp, everyone knows what camp feels like, thanks to the tons of summer-camp movies and TV shows (remember Salute Your Shorts?) that we’ve seen over the years.
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