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Ahh, Overnight Summer Camp Movies, conjures up musty cabins, s’mores, mosquitoes, swimming, summer romance, pranks and much more. Yet most of the summer camp movies clearly have a less than wholesome appeal. That is until the movie Summercamp! arrived on the scene. This move is a documentary that lets parents take an inside look at the coed summer camp swift nature camp located in the northwoods of wisconsin.

“Summercamp!” knows the camp experience is eternal and the same for everyone: Sunsets over the lake are generic only when not seen from your own bunk. With its gently anarchic indie-pop score by the Flaming Lips, the film nods toward the timelessness that’s one of the best aspects of camp — no laptops or Gameboys at Swift, thank you — but it also notes where the modern world intrudes. A lot of the boys and girls discuss their ADHD medication, while a counselor scoffs that happily exhausted kids don’t need pills: “If your kid’s acting crazy, it’s not because he had too much sugar, it must be ADHD, let’s go pump him full of drugs.”

This sweet and shapeless movie focuses on a handful of youngsters struggling with their feelings. There’s little Holly, who resembles a sad Alice in Wonderland and is peculiarly obsessed with chickadees; talkative Spencer, at peace only when reading Tom Clancy; and aggressive Cameron, a delinquent-in-training who cries daily for his mother.

So here are a few of the comments others are thinking about this Summer Camp Movie:

Summercamp! is a peek at what summer camp is really like for normal American Children, but it’s honesty and its heart are ultimately what take it beyond mere documentation and into intimate and well-done documentary storytelling.

It’s the start of the last three-week session at Swift Nature Camp in Minong, Wis., and the counselors are nearing burnout. (“I love my kids,” says one. “I hate my co-counselor.”) The filmmakers introduce us to a handful of campers packing their trunks, all deceptively certain of themselves and united in their love of nature. Bailey, 11, dryly remarks that “most animals are a lot cooler than humans, who are like these pink blobs with no defenses.”

Summercamp! maintains a gentle, lackadaisical tone that eloquently captures the triumphs and traumas of this ageless ritual.

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Swift Nature Camp is a Traditional Coed Summer Camp. Boys and Girls Ages 6-15. enjoy Nature, Animals & Science at this Minnesota Summer Camp