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Camp Rock
MOVIE: Disney, Friday 6/20 at 8:00p (120 minutes)


6.3

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Starring Demi Lovato, Alyson Stoner, Joe Jonas, Maria Canals Barrera, Meaghan Jette Martin, Jasmine Richards, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Nick Jonas, and Kevin Jonas

The Disney channel launches its newest tweener musical, this time set in a rock-music camp featuring the Jonas Brothers.

GENRE(S):	Family, Musical
CREATED BY:	Alan Sacks
FIRST AIR DATE:	June 20, 2008

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Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport

There's nothing objectionable about the messages of the piece: always be true to yourself and treat everyone with dignity and respect. But teens and adults may find it a little saccharine.

New York Post Adam Buckman

It's really a great movie, like a modern-day version of an old Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney picture in which the kids put on a show that improves the lives of all who see it.

Newsday Verne Gay

This is a hit, and has been carefully crafted by Disney to become one. The formula may be as old as pop culture itself, but (again) who really cares?

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

Camp Rock is glossy, all right, and should provide a glow for Walt Disney Co.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

It takes nothing away from this genuinely talented group of kids to express even greater admiration for the promotion and marketing.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

What matters is how well it's done, and Disney does a lot of things right. It's multicultural. Parents are portrayed as people. The intrapersonal dramas are small enough so viewers will understand them.

TV Guide Matt Roush

It’s all very sweet and tuneful, and took me back to my days as a Hayley Mills groupie.

Slate Troy Patterson

This being Disney product, these issues are dealt with in primary colors, uplifting tones, and production levels that aim for exact competence—a workaday professionalism that's never too slick to alienate anyone.

Time James Poniewozik

The band has a refreshing scruffiness but except for Joe gets too little screen time to leaven the formula slickness.

Variety Brian Lowry

Like "High School Musical," it's a painfully simple but efficient fairy tale for a generation that never heard of Frankie and Annette, blending music with teen angst about fitting in--all built around a likable protagonist, multiethnic cast and hot pop trio.

Boston Globe Joanna Weiss

If only the endeavor felt more worthy, and less prefabricated at some offshore factory where workers in mouse ears plug in the parts: the underconfident girl with a surprisingly pretty voice, the semi-bad boy with a sensitive side, the meticulously choreographed musical numbers, the heartfelt Disney lessons about self-love and self-expression.

Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd

Camp Rock isn't particularly good, but it's good at what it does. The product may be "inauthentic," if such a thing is even possible, but the way it will connect with a lot of little girls and more than a few little boys is real enough.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

Camp Rock is so rigidly formulaic, so unremarkable, that by the time the cast sings its finale, ''We Rock,'' it's hard to agree.

USA Today Robert Bianco

Simultaneously overdone and underproduced, the movie jerks its way from point to point without bothering to explain the characters' behavior or inject any life into its musical numbers.

The New York Times Neil Genzlinger

The movie has some bright spots, but so much of it revolves around the resident diva of the title camp that it’s hard to focus on the good stuff; you’re too annoyed at having this lazily imagined character shoved down your throat for the zillionth time.

Washington Post Jennifer Frey

Alas, although she's likable enough, Lovato just doesn't have the same sparkle as a Miley Cyrus--or an Ashley Tisdale, for that matter. And though her music is in the same dance-inspiring, easy-to-memorize mode as that of the "HSM" franchise, it's not as catchy.

The average user rating for this tv show is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Angela P. gave it a10:
It was really cute. I liked it a lot.

Katie J. gave it a6:
The end was very obvious to me. But in one point in the movie I had already figured out a way for Tess to get Shane. Just sing Mitchie's song!!!

Kyal B. gave it a0:
This is really just awful.

James M. gave it a9:
It was really cool and awesome the jonas brothers are better than Miley cyrus ha ha.

C.B. gave it a5:
This film was not marketed to me, nor should it have been. It's a crappy movie with bad acting and really good songs. So... buy the soundtrack.

Jared C. gave it a0:
What a waste of life. Who'd actually waste their time to go see another gay "High School Musical" type of film. The songs and beat are repulsive. The acting, on first base, is terrible. I even got that bored just to see this crap. But omg, just avoid this at all costs. Even if I won a Blue Ray DVD Player and 60 inch plasma screen that had to come with Camp Rock. I'de still burn the whole thing. Awful.

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Camp Rock MOVIE: Disney, Friday 6/20 at 8:00p (120 minutes)

Camp Rock
MOVIE: Disney, Friday 6/20 at 8:00p (120 minutes)