olgagreer White Water summer is one of the two Kevin Bacon movies featuring white rapids. This one is the more jovial one as he plays a camp coach to a bunch of youngsters. The usual follies follow. The direction is good, and some outdoor scenes of the wilderness are quite good. Still, this is one of those easily forgotten movies that Kevin Bacon made to probably earn a paycheck. Good one-time watch.

Alex Estenzo I LOVED this movie when I was a kid and it's so funny how my perspective has changed as I have gotten older. I was all about Sean Astin as the hero and that Kevin Bacon was the bad guy and now that I am older...I see Kevin Bacon's perspective and I am seeing all that he was doing to help Sean Astin and how Sean was just a crybaby. Crazy what time and wisdom does when you get older. If this is your first time watching it in the era you probably won't like it at all. The music doesn't fit the movie, but it fits the 80's era of teenage movies. I do enjoy the story and most of the characters actually make sense through the entire movie. Is the movie good...no, but is it great nostalgia...YES!!!

Aaron1375 This movie had some entertaining moments in it and it gets points for doing something different with the whole summer camp routine. Granted, this is not really a camp movie per se. The movie has a guy for some reason trying to talk these two parents into letting their son join him in his special trek through the wilderness. There is hiking, white water rafting, they will be camping out in tents, and to top it all off at the end of it all they get to do a bit of mountain climbing. Sounds fun enough, except the boy would rather go to a computer camp or something to that effect. Why the guy wants this kid who obviously does not want to endure what this trip offers so badly is beyond me, and quite frankly thanks to his convincing I am willing to bet the leader of this gang had his worst summer ever. Well I guarantee it was his worst trip ever and I feel a bit for this guy played very well by Kevin Bacon. Also, Sean Astin plays the boy who does not really want to go on this trip all that much well too. In the end rather okay movie to some extent as we watch how Astin's character and Bacon's character have their differences and also you get to see the boy try to get along with other guys during this trip. You have some humor in the movie as well as Astin has scenes where he kind of goes over certain parts of the trip as the movie is sort of a flashback. The ending is a bit over the top, but this movie never gets as extreme as that one summer camp movie where the kids take over the camp.

tfrizzell Adventure guide Kevin Bacon takes four youngsters (Sean Astin, K.C. Martel, Matt Adler, Jonathan Ward) out to the would-be great outdoors to teach the adolescents about life and nature. Naturally conflict arises among the four and soon the group turns their anger to Bacon. Astin, ending up being the leader of the group, must grow up in spite of his want to stay a child. "White Water Summer" is more like a music video than an actual theatrical movie. The film only runs about 90 minutes and has several long musical interludes during the dead-time. Unfortunately there is a lot of dead-time here. 2 stars out of 5.