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Arizona Summer (2004) is a English movie. Joey Travolta has directed this movie. Gemini Barnett,Brent Blair,Christy Blair,Brooke Burgstahler are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Arizona Summer (2004) is considered one of the best Adventure,Family,Comedy movie in India and around the world.
A family oriented story revolving around Brent Butler (Gemini Barnett), a wiser-than-his years youngster. A modern day Tom Sawyer. The majority of the story takes place at a boys and girls camp owned and operated by Travers (Lee Majors), who has spent a lifetime of quietly helping adolescents become confident young adults. In addition to the full gamut of camp activities, adventures, practical jokes, and conflict resolution there is the underling theme that bolsters the importance of a positive father-son relationship.
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Light, innocent and colorful ...
This is pretty much a kid's show. It's pleasant, but not strong in any way except for scenery. It's about a boy's summer camp in Arizona, but it's not obnoxious or crude. It's a mostly light-hearted, innocent fun. The movie follows two 8 year old friends and a small group of rivaling 16 year old camp leaders. The background landscapes are great. The small lakes and hills are visually colorful and delightful to watch. However, the content and characters of the movie, while nice, can't quite match the scenery. It's a nice/OK movie, but maybe only worth watching if you're a young child.
unrealistic family stupidity
Disclaimer: watched this on Showtime and could only take 75 minutes of this trash. A family movie?? The kids are not even cute. The older teen counselors attempt "rising" above a horrid script and story. Lee Majors is a plain-out awful actor since he first entered a sound-stage. He does not disappoint as the camp director. The script goes off in all directions with no conclusions. The bullying by the camp counselors toward each other as well as the little campers is totally unrealistic. They would have been fired in a real life setting. (I know this as I was a camp assistant director.) A waste of time and money.
Acting is awful!
While it is a feel good movie and the story is pretty good, that acting is so, so bad! The actor that plays Jack can barely form a sentence. There is a scene where Shawn is asking Jack how long he has played the guitar and he takes a full 10 seconds (I timed it) of mumbling before he says 3 years. I cant believe that was actually in the final cut! Unbelievably bad! The fight scene at the end looks like scene form a Jr. High play. I was surprised how bad the acting was because there are a couple of well known actors, (Morgan Fairchild and Lee Majors), who were also not great. If you can just accept that the acting is so awful, the story is pretty good.
A Collision of Genres - Teen Movies & Kid Movies Don't Mix
8-year-old Brent (Gemini Barnett) is sent off, for the first time, to the summer camp where his big brother, 16-year old Brooke (Scott Clifton), is a Counsellor. Brooke is at the age where girls are very important, but Brent is just a precociously confident, fun-loving boy who is also a master of the yo-yo. Both brothers are troubled by the same bullying Counsellor, Mike (Shane Van Dyke), and young Brent revels in getting the better of him. The film also stars Lee Majors in a laid-back role as the summer camp's owner / manager, Bug Hall appears as a Counsellor, and David Henrie (think Selena Gomez's older brother, Justin, in the TV series "Wizards Of Waverly Place") plays a bullying kid who calls himself "Bad" (an early victim is his own real-life younger brother, Lorenzo Henrie, playing Jerry). The uneven nature of the movie explains why it didn't get proper big-screen distribution in the USA, where it ended up as a DVD release (in the dreaded "standard screen" format) over two years after being made. Apart from a minor thread about father-son bonding, the story is roughly split between focussing on big brother Brooke's problems dealing with the bullying Mike while competing for the same girl, Donna (Michelle Holgate), and also focussing on the mischievous, cocksure younger brother Brent protecting other kids his age and standing up to bullying from whatever direction. There lies the fault of the film, by trying to be both a teen and a kid's movie, it simply doesn't work, at least in one direction as kids will get bored during the extended, slower-paced "teen" segments. There are some good fun moments and maybe it qualifies as a family movie, overall it is good-natured enough, but don't be surprised if the youngsters get restless in places. Incidentally, Gemini Barnett was probably 13 at the time of filming, and certainly doesn't convince as an 8-year-old, although otherwise his performance is one of the stronger features of the production.
Silly but still a fun family movie.
Maybe a little dopey at times but it has a "good guys win" message and no sex, language or significant violence to be concerned about. It is about young friendship, teenage crushes and dealing with bullies in the surrounds of an Arizona summer camp. If you just like clean movies and some humor on the silly side I think you will enjoy this one.