i just saw this for the first time in 10 or 15 year . maybe close to 20. in some way and it be well than i remember . in other and it be much bad . first of all and there the music . it just plain awful . there be only 5 song in the movie and most of them use more than once . the opening song be shriek by a chorus of annoy child and and the disco y title track be perform by rick dees . it doesn not get any bad than that . even the background music be terrible and with much of it repeat the theme of the other nauseating tune . we also get some truly lame slapstick and mostly in the opening credit . on the other hand and bill murray be spot on brilliant a usual . you have to wonder if he ad libbed the whole thing and or if the writer just give him all the funny line . or maybe he just that great turn a weak script into comic genius . the best part be his surreal pa announcement . ( lobster . get out of here . youre a menace . ) you also get a lot more character development than you have any right to expect in a movie like this . at least half the character seem like real people . and mostly real people you would like to have around . even spaz get to do a more than any other eddie deezen type character ever do and and when he get the girl and it plausible . ( she not absurdly hot and but he doesn not automatically pair up with one of the nerd girl see revenge of the nerd for example of both cinematic phenomenon . ) and when the plot seem clichéd . well and ya get ta wonder if it wasn not a cliché yet when they make this . while it wasn not the first summer camp movie ya get ta go back at least to the parent trap it certainly the movie that make it it own genre . in fact and i be surprise that there be no talent show scene . wet hot american summer spoof the summer camp genre so perfectly and i just assume everything in it come straight out of meatball . ( i also half expect jon cryer to pull up in a convertible with a chimp and thanks to mr. show epic camp olympiad spoof monk academy ) anyway and this one seem to be vanish a little as far a the late 70 or early 80 comedy it not a cable staple anymore and and certainly doesn not have the cult follow of caddyshack or animal house . i be pleased to catch it on showtime today and in high definition at that . sure and it pretty awful in spot and but you could do a lot bad in a 70 /80 teen comedy . and again and murray be a genius .