11 Classic Summer Camp Movies You'll Love Introducing to Your Kids

There are few camp counselors better than Bill Murray's Tripper in 1979's Meatballs, who makes it his mission to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the Olympiad competition (and falls in love with Kate Lynch as Roxanne in the process).

No Summer camp movie list is complete without The Parent Trap remake, the movie that had all of us convinced we had a secret twin that was separated from us at birth (and had us practicing that epic handshake). Are you more of an Annie or a Hallie?

We all know and love the 1998 Lindsay Lohan remake, but we can't forget to include the underrated 1961 Hayley Mills classic that inspired it.

When a camp janitor finally gets his chance to play counselor in 1987's Ernest Goes to Camp, hijinks ensue (especially when the campers are all juvenile delinquents).

If you spent your childhood Summers attending (and hating) computer camp or acting camp, then you probably also dreamed of posing as a counselor and creating your own no-rules Summer camp, just like Mud and the gang did in 1994's Camp Nowhere.

Ben Stiller has had some great characters, but few are greater than Tony Perkis, the fitness fanatic in 1995's Heavyweights, who turns Camp Hope for overweight boys into a cardio nightmare.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen tackle that whole "wish we had a secret twin thing" in 1995's It Takes Two. They pull off an epic switcheroo to play matchmaker, and you better believe there was a food fight in the mess hall along the way.

We honestly can't think of two campers we'd rather befriend more than Wednesday and Pugsley Addams (especially at Camp Chippewa with the perky Gary and Becky Granger at the helm). This 1993 sequel to The Addams Family has the dark comedy of the original, with the added bonus of Summer camp fun.

Step aside, haters. Camp Rock is a Summer camp film for the ages, and if you haven't shipped Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas ever since, then you probably need to watch it again.