Theater Camp, the funniest movie of the year, is now on Hulu

polygon.com:

Great comedy years are rare nowadays, but 2023 has been a particularly surprising exception to that rule.

There’s Bottoms, No Hard Feelings, Barbie, Rye Lane, They Cloned Tyrone, Murder Mystery 2, Polite Society, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Asteroid City, and maybe even The Super Mario Bros. Movie, depending on where you fall on that one. But none of those are the funniest movie of the year. That honor belongs to Theater Camp, which is now available to stream on Hulu.

Theater Camp’s premise is a summer camp classic: A sleepaway haven for misfits of a certain variety is running out of money, and the suits are breathing down its neck to take over and destroy everything that makes it great. Thankfully, there’s a way to save the camp (as there always is): with one spectacular performance that raises enough money to keep the doors open and the lights on. Unfortunately, the camp now finds itself run by the founder’s good-natured but completely oblivious son, a jock/YouTuber played to perfection by Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal).

While that plot is certainly present in the story, it’s mostly an excuse to meet a ridiculous cast of campers and counselors — played by theater veterans like Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, and Noah Galvin — who should be instantly, horrifically recognizable to anyone who’s ever had anything to do with theater, and instantly hilarious and endearing to everyone else. The movie is clearly inspired by, and lives up to, the wonderful work of Christopher Guest (especially Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman), which take similar faux-documentary looks at very silly communities.

This is part of what makes Theater Camp so special. It’s undoubtedly a movie made from deep inside the subculture it’s