Oh, Jenny, I love the IDEA of Camp. And I thought it had the potential of being brilliant. The numbers ARE fun. By "joy" I mean we never really see the absolute joy that these kids should get out of the experience - I'm speaking of the characters. I never got the chill factor believing that they had stepped into Oz. That IS a great quote and it IS what the movie should have been but isn't. Todd Graff goes on and on about why he opened the movie with that endless number, and I'm sure it made perfect sense TO HIM. For an audience looking to become involved in a film, it starts the movie off on such a wrong note I felt it basically killed it. We're all Monday morning quarterbacks or, at the very least, Tuesday morning half-dollarbacks, but it should have started with either the arrival at camp or a swift montage of our characters packing and preparing - something dynamic, fun, exciting and that would show the thrill of the adventure they're about to embark on. Instead we get this strange number sung by characters we haven't met and know nothing about and it's just deadly.
Again, there is no wrong or right, it's just what makes horse-racing.
Panni, Anna Kendrick was the slavish girl, the one who "took care of" the spoiled rich kid, and then poisoned her and took over The Ladies Who Lunch. I thought Anna's version of that song was really spectacular.