What is great about this is you get to see what Ivan Reitman and Bill Murray are playing with before they really refined their craft with films like STRIPES and GHOSTBUSTERS. Bill Murray is really funny in this and you can see how he is able to launch a movie career after this. Christopher Makepeac was so great as Rudy I can’t wait to see him in other things. The problem with the film is that it suffers from being just okay most of the times. Jokes are played pretty right down the center and overall feels like a riff on what ANIMAL HOUSE had already done and less on trying to create new things. Despite this it has a lot of heart and every single summer camp movie trope. Another hurdle that is hard to get over is that Bill Murray is WAY too old for this role.
