Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

rlewing-94424 I am still trying to figure out how the canoe magically transported itself across the shaky bridge to the mountain lake. The scenery in the movie is outstanding but the progression of the changing geography and scenes makes less sense than the story line. I give the movie a 2 for the scenery.And now I am required to write an addition 5 lines that no one will read. Let's see. the river rescue scene at the end. At first Alan and Kevin Bacon's character start out on a huge river which narrows down to a much smaller white water river. Nowhere in the world does this happen Somehow Alan by himself gets Kevin with a broken leg down off the mountain and loads him in the canoe for the final white water scenes. There are numerous dumb inconsistencies in the story line just like that. Maybe the way to watch this is every time the movie flubs is take a straight shot. Then by the end you will not notice or care about all the lame mistakes.

Elswet Kevin Bacon is a "crystals and angels" spiritualist who leads a pack of teenage boys into the mountains, and then pulls some really weird stuff in an attempt to teach them to be men.Sean Astin is quite young here, and demonstrates his incredible acting talents, even then. In fact, all the performances are exemplary, and the story is interesting. The photography is absolutely beautiful, and even the score is wonderful. The rock songs don't seem to quite belong, but in the 1980's, that didn't seem to matter much to anyone.This used to serve as a motivational movie for me, but lately, I find I get more motivation from Monster Squad. For one, you do have to suspend your belief for prolonged periods, knowing all along that things would not have worked out as they did.All in all, it's a good Sunday afternoon movie, but not much more than that unless you're a film student.It rates a 5.8/10 from...the Fiend :.

Blanc_71 A good portion of this movie was filmed in Northern California. You can drive up the Feather River Canyon on HWY 70 in beautiful Plumas County. In the beginning of the movie there is an aerial shot of Bacon and the boys driving the VW van up the canyon with the Feather River snaking along side them. The film crew set up shop in Quincy, California where I was raised. They filmed in different parts of Plumas County including an old general store that is located in Cromberg, CA...since out of business long ago but the building is still there. Another shot was at Silver lake also in Plumas County. It was a good summer back in 1987 as a high school kid in the small town of Quincy (pop. 5,000) the filming of this movie that summer was really cool. The picture of the young boy holding the rainbow trout in Vic's portfolio is a local boy from Quincy, CA. Although it has been 19 years since the filming it brings back memories of that summer and it is neat to see movie buffs still discussing the movie online.

Goon-2 "White Water Summer" is far from perfect. The kids are kind of bratty(they swear a lot), the last twenty or so minutes are a little weak, and there are a few things that I think they could have done better.One of them is the narration that is interspersed throughout the film c/o of its star, a young Sean Astin, who...does not look quite as young in the narration scenes as he does in the rest of the film. I did miss about the first seven minutes, which might have "explained" his aging, though I doubt it. What it suggests is that this film sat on the shelf for some time, and the narration was some bizarre editing condition that...helped it get released? I don't know. Whatever the case, that alone is a little distracting. The narration is also kind of silly and does not explain anything that the average viewer could have figured out.Another thing that might have really helped this film was to not have sold the character of Vic(Kevin Bacon) as such an obvious sadist. The film makers could have played Vic in a different way(without making that much of an effort) of "IS Vic a bad guy," because in a lot of his scenes, Vic's "meanness" is in the eyes of Astin's character(a spoiled city boy) and the beholder. Astin's character, Allen, thinks Vic is evil and mean because Vic "pushes" Allen to do weird things like climb a rickety suspension bridge, and swing on a rope from one side of a cliff to another. Allen whines and complains and acts like Vic's the devil for making him participate in such activities, but of course when he DOES, he gets all brave and bold and learns to enjoy himself. In that essence, Vic is actually GOOD for Allen, not bad. Instead Vic's making Allen do all of these tasks is portrayed as very, very bad. Vic is no angel(he leaves Allen ALONE to do these things, and does things like yell at the boys and...gasp...pushes one of them), and if he was real, he probably would have lost his job. Despite his weird, strange methods, though, Allen and the boys always come out stronger after his tasks, so if he's so much of some villain, why are they learning valuable lessons from him?I actually like that "White Water Summer" made me THINK about these things. I would have liked better if they were more clearly defined in the film, but I'll still give the thing credit for letting it "exercise my mind."