A father running a day care decides that his son must attend the summer camp that he attended. He buys it from the previous owner and has trouble with the leader of the neighboring camp. He has problems with his military father, but calls him in to help anyway. This is all leading up to an olympiad sporting competition between the two camps.
Hokey and sappy beyond reason. I get that the filmmakers were trying to make a kids camp film like the plethora of 1980s examples of this genre. However, it did not succeed in this goal because about 20 years have passed since this genre was a viable option. It has 1% on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered one of the worst sequels. The only film that I liked Cuba Gooding Jr. in was As Good as It Gets (1997) because he played outside his character, ordering Jack Nicholson around. This did have the physical and toilet humor of 1980s kids camp films, but something besides that turned my stomach. I think that bad writing and dialogue combined with modern, sleek production to create something deeply unholy. 1980s films of the genre used good writing and dialogue with crappy production to create something that felt more real. I rate this bad because it's not the worst, but very close. Don't watch it.
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