Boys vs. Girls.
Between scheduling and technical issues, the era of Zoom interviews can feel like walking into a conversation halfway through. By the time Michael Stasko entered summer camp comedy
Boys vs. Girls, star Colin Mochrie was discussing narwhals. The unicorn of the sea, as the
Whose Line is it Anyway? star described them.
Not that writer/director Stasko was thrown by the topic. Narwhals, it s decided, are cool right now. My one-year-old son has a narwhal in his crib right now.
How the talk got there is a long story, but it ended up with a defense of
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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