12/22/2020
Colin Mochrie plays a summer-camp director struggling to hold things together in Mike Stasko's throwback teen comedy.
A likably low-rent, low-ambition entry into a genre whose standard-bearer,
Meatballs, doesn't set the bar very high, Mike Stasko's
Boys Vs. Girls goes to summer camp for its promised battle of the sexes. Veteran comic performers Colin Mochrie and Kevin McDonald rep Team Canada well in this Canuck production (even if the former is better utilized than the latter), whose generic 1990-set action could take place just about anywhere hormone-addled teens are thrown together without parental supervision.
Mochrie plays Roger, who has shepherded kids for years at Camp Kindlewood, where July has always been set aside for boys and August for girls. In the summer of 1990, though, things get complicated: The big corporation that owns the camp — aren't summer camps a last bastion of mom-and-popness? — has decided to go co-ed. Some traditions will have to die — like the "pee where you want" policy for the boys, and the girls' beloved pastime of Tomacock. (Think Pin the Tail on the Donkey, but with a hatchet and a different body part.)