This movie had some entertaining moments in it and it gets points for doing something different with the whole summer camp routine. Granted, this is not really a camp movie per se. The movie has a guy for some reason trying to talk these two parents into letting their son join him in his special trek through the wilderness. There is hiking, white water rafting, they will be camping out in tents, and to top it all off at the end of it all they get to do a bit of mountain climbing. Sounds fun enough, except the boy would rather go to a computer camp or something to that effect. Why the guy wants this kid who obviously does not want to endure what this trip offers so badly is beyond me, and quite frankly thanks to his convincing I am willing to bet the leader of this gang had his worst summer ever. Well I guarantee it was his worst trip ever and I feel a bit for this guy played very well by Kevin Bacon. Also, Sean Astin plays the boy who does not really want to go on this trip all that much well too. In the end rather okay movie to some extent as we watch how Astin's character and Bacon's character have their differences and also you get to see the boy try to get along with other guys during this trip. You have some humor in the movie as well as Astin has scenes where he kind of goes over certain parts of the trip as the movie is sort of a flashback. The ending is a bit over the top, but this movie never gets as extreme as that one summer camp movie where the kids take over the camp.
Review of White Water Summer
