Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations
- Hardware
- (as Matt Cravenn)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to one of the featurettes on the DVD, several of the shots in the movie were added after initial filming ended. These included the scenes of Rudy and Tripper at the bus station and of them playing blackjack for peanuts. During the time off, Chris Makepeace had entered puberty and had the beginnings of a mustache. Bill Murray decided that it had to go so he took Makepeace over to a sink, lathered him up with soap and shaved off his mustache. So Makepeace received his first ever shave from Murray.
- GoofsWhen they are in the K-Mart parking lot picking up the campers, the buses are Chevrolets and GMC makes. When they get to Camp North-Star the buses have changed to Fords and a Dodge.
- Quotes
Tripper: And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!
Rest of group: IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER...
- Alternate versionsThe music played during the second half of the Olympiad is different in the U.S. and Canadian versions of the film. On the U.S. release, there are additional lyrics: "Go team go, Fight team fight..." etc. These lyrics are absent on the Canadian theatrical and VHS releases. The soundtrack is mostly instrumental. You can hear this alternate music on the French soundtrack of the region 1 DVD.
- SoundtracksAre You Ready for the Summer?
Sung by The North Star Kids Chorus
Written by Norman Gimbel and Elmer Bernstein
If you are looking for American Pie-type lewdness, vulgarity or fart and feces jokes, Meatballs will disappoint with impunity and a guarantee.
If you like Bill Murray, and you like good clean fun, you will probably like and enjoy this film very much. Similarly with Stripes, Ghostbusters, Caddy Shack, etc.
Enough said, just go watch it, and stop intellectualizing it. It's Meatballs, for crying out loud! Why read a review? Just enjoy it and have fun. And ignore the trash talk by others. Films, like so many other things in life, are subjective. To each his own.
Always beware the 'expert' who diminishes others' taste.
- robbiereilly
- Sep 4, 2007
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Babyspeck und Fleischklösschen
- Filming locations
- Camp White Pine, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada(Camp North Star, Camp Mohawk)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- CA$1,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $43,046,003
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $77,170
- Jul 1, 1979
- Gross worldwide
- $43,046,003
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