Camp counselor Heather (Meredith Host) calls in a favor and asks Teen Ape (Casey Bowker) to work at a summer camp. Naturally, he refuses, until she tells him there’s going to be a lot of “barely legal trim” there. He soon learns that he’s been lured to the camp under false pretenses and that Heather and all the other camp counselors are actually big game hunters who want to hunt Teen Ape Most Dangerous Game-style. It’s then up to Teen Ape to stay alive and turn the tables on his pursuers.
Writer/director Chris Seaver takes his intermittently amusing creation, Teen Ape and plugs him into not one, but two dependable cliched scenarios, with predictable, and occasionally funny results. Since things turn on a dime halfway through, it’s almost like you’re getting two Teen Ape movies for the price of one. (Some would say that’s still too high a price to pay.) I will say I kind of wished he made an entire movie about one plot or the other. Splitting the difference kind of makes the whole thing feel rushed, and you get the feeling that Seaver kind of missed the opportunity to milk both plots for all they’re worth (especially the Most Dangerous Game scenes).
Like most of Seaver’s films, all this is little more than an excuse for sexist jokes, grossout humor, and shot on video shenanigans. If you can wade through some of the cringeworthy jokes, amateurish performances (although Host is really good as the redhaired villainess), and random pop culture references (everything from Total Recall to Werewolf… uh… the Joe Estevez one), there are a couple of good lines sprinkled about here and there, which helps to make for a mostly bearable experience. My favorite moment was when the movie star of the group got cast in a buddy comedy set during the Holocaust called Dude Where’s Mein Kampf?
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