"I've never seen such utterly depraved filmmaking," raved Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times. "Kestell portrays his kamping opponents as little more than sexual receptacles. What little dialogue and plot he provides are flimsy excuses to undress kampers Chip Christians (also an Anal Cramming Hall-of-Famer), Ryan "Sprout" Emerson, and Horace "Jizzelle" Greenlee."

Turan's colleagues were quick to heap further laurels on the film. "Chip 2 is a pandering, lowest-common-denominator wank-fest," CNN reviewer Paul Clinton said. "Perverted beyond belief."

"Kestell plumbs the depths of sexual abomination, then goes one nauseating fathom deeper," said Peter Howell of The Toronto Star. "I never imagined a film could be this sick."

"Chip 2 is disgusting and demoralizing," said Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum, who said she "would not be a bit surprised" if Kestell were nominated for Best New Director at this year's Kamping Video News Awards. "This is nothing but gratuitous, non-stop flesh with zero redeeming artistic value."

According to Risque' Records, Kestell's Plymouth-based production company, the film took less than a week to shoot in Kestell's puny tent, Garry Lundstom's dad's sauna, and Pat Hamilton's underwear.

"No dark impulse is left unexplored," New Yorker critic Anthony Lane breathlessly gushed. "If sickening close-ups of Chip Christians' super-stretched anus is your idea of entertainment, by all means rush to your video store. Not even the repetitious, Kez-el-Fez-laden soundtrack, sloppy editing, and total lack of filmcraft can detract from the aura of sleazy, shamefully adolescent puerility in which Kestell soaks the entire 'film.'"

Kestell, already at work on his next feature, said he is "stunned" by the positive response to Chip 2.

"Who would've thought a regular guy like me could make 'the most obscene, corrupt pornographic filth ever committed to high-definition video'?" said Kestell, speaking from the Grand Marais Motor Lodge, where he is scouting locations for his next film. "Look out, Gunflint Trail--I'm the kamping-porn king of the world!"



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