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Meatballs Director: Ivan Reitman Cast: Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Russ Banham

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  • DVD Release Date: 06/05/2007
  • Original Release: 1979
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 2,212
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Documentary - Summer Camp: The Making of Meatballs; Audio commentary by Ivan Reitman and writer/producer Daniel Goldberg

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Disc #1 -- Meatballs [Special Edition]
1. Good Morning Camp Northstar [4:42]
2. Action Packed Summer [4:13]
3. Camp Rules [2:50]
4. Making the Rounds [4:08]
5. Gossip Column [2:10]
6. One Good Friend [4:15]
7. Coolest Cabin [3:33]
8. Morning Jog [2:02]
9. Flirting Games [2:23]
10. Playing for Peanuts [3:37]
11. Operation Excitement [2:34]
12. Parents' Day [2:28]
13. Girl Talk [2:23]
14. Scoring Big [4:51]
15. Team Spirit [1:50]
16. Big Social [2:58]
17. Serious Night [1:37]
18. Let's Walla Walla [3:31]
19. CIT Overnight [3:00]
20. Night Swim [4:41]
21. The Olympiad [5:28]
22. Attitude Adjustment [2:30]
23. Day Two Trials [4:30]
24. Appetite to Win [2:29]
25. Marathon Chance [6:29]
26. Final Campfire [2:50]
27. Moving Forward [1:16]
28. Saying Goodbye [4:05]

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Set at a low-end summer camp and aimed squarely at a teen audience, Meatballs is a light screwball comedy that turned its low-budget Canadian roots into a very profitable box-office run. The biggest reason for the film's success is Bill Murray who stars as Tripper, the head counselor who runs things at Camp Northstar with the help of his love interest Roxanne (Kate Lynch) and the camp's director Morty (Harvey Atkins), who is affectionately known as Mickey. Camp opens with Tripper and Morty preparing the misfit counselors-in-training -- Spaz, Fink, Crockett, A.L., Candace, Wendy, and Wheels among them -- for the arrival of their hyperactive little charges. After settling in, kids and counselors begin their activities with a soccer game in which depressed 11-year-old Rudy (Chris Makepeace) accidentally loses the game. Cast out by the other children, Rudy runs away only to come across Tripper, who befriends the boy and makes him his running partner. Romance, sexy fun, and comic hijinx -- usually with the heavy-sleeping Morty as their target -- lead up to an annual Olympiad in which Camp Northstar battles the wealthier and athletically superior residents of Camp Mohawk. The challenging events include cup stacking, potato-sack racing, and a nauseating hot dog-eating contest in which the portly Fink devours his way to victory. With the two-day event tied up, it comes down to the cross-country run, in which Tripper enters Rudy. Meatballs was the first major directorial effort by multi-talented filmmaker Ivan Reitman, whose name has since become synonymous with the comedy genre. ~ Patrick Legare, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide

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July 13, 2005: This film will always hold a warm place in my heart. I remember it as being before Bill Murray hit the big time (with Ghostbusters et al), before he even left SNL if I recall correctly. It blends two familiar storylines -- a teenage boy learning to believe in himself, along with the underdog team beating the overhyped favorite. It shares some features with Revenge of the Nerds (less-advantaged weirdo kids from the low-rent camp get revenge on the rich kids at a rival camp). It kind of points toward the John Hughes type vehicles of the 80s, but it's a little less self-conscious. Bill Murray is wonderful, completely taking over the show in his now-familiar style. This movie offers us the great chant/cheer "It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!"

This review was written about the DVD Stereo / Mono edition.