Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Like every summer, our friends, the Pics, Jacky and Laurette, Gatineau, recently divorced from Sopie, and Patrick Chirac, ever true to form, get together at the Blue Waves camping grounds. This year, Patrick has decided to try car sharing. Believing that he'll travel through France alone with Vanessa, he finds himself accompanied by three young Dijon inhabitants: smooth-talking Robert, good-looking Benji and loudmouth José. Of course, after car sharing Patrick is forced to try out bed sharing...
Camping 3 is a third installment in a broadly popular but critically dismissed French comedy franchise. The plot recycles the same Blue Waves campground formula with minimal variation, adding a car-sharing gimmick that generates predictable fish-out-of-water comedy. Acting is serviceable from the returning cast but adds nothing new. Cinematography is functional TV-movie level. Novelty is very low — this is a by-the-numbers sequel recycling characters, setting, and joke structures from its predecessors with little distinctive voice. The ending wraps up conventionally with no surprises.