Camp Rock 3 brings the Jonas Brothers back to the woods, and it brings a new cast of campers with them. The film premiered on Disney Channel on August 13, 2026, and landed on Disney+ the next day. It runs 93 minutes. Veronica Rodriguez directed it, Eydie Faye wrote it, and the tagline is “Summer is back in session.”
Trailer, via Disney Plus.
Shane Gray Suggests Camp Rock
The plot splits its time between two generations, and the older one gets less of it. Connect 3 — Shane, Nate and Jason Gray, played again by Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas — are preparing for a reunion tour when their manager Lark, played by Sherry Cola, tells them their opening act broke up. She insists they find a replacement. Shane suggests they go back to Camp Rock.
So the band holds a competition at the camp, with Lark overseeing it and camper Callie Banks, played by Brooklynn Pitts, as her assistant. A new act gets a tour slot, and every kid on the grounds wants it.
The film is a legacy sequel to Camp Rock (2008) and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010), and it wears that plainly. The older stars return, and the story is handed to the newcomers.
Sage Scott and Desi Arrive
Sage Scott, played by Liamani Segura, arrives at her first summer at Camp Rock with her younger brother Desi, played by Hudson Stone. Their relationship is strained. Sage broke up their band to attend a music school, and Desi has not let it go.
They meet drummer Cliff (Casey Trotter), cellist Rosie (Lumi Pollack), aspiring dancer Callie, and social influencer Maddie with her backup dancers. Maddie is played by Ava Jean. The camp director, Connie Torres, played by Maria Canals-Barrera, confiscates the campers’ phones to prevent leaks. Anyone caught with one is out of the competition.
Then Sage runs into Fletch Robinson, played by Malachi Barton, a contestant who has just arrived at camp in a police car. It is a good entrance.
The First Challenge Is “Play My Music”
The first challenge has the campers perform Connect 3’s song “Play My Music.” Sage, Desi, Cliff, Rosie, Fletch, and Maddie and her backup dancers all pass. The eliminations come later.
During a songwriting workshop, Sage is paired with Fletch. He praises her and performs a song dedicated to her. Desi skips the workshop and finds Callie dancing in the woods. She invites him to join, and he declines because he cannot dance. Sage later tells Callie she has feelings for Fletch but is determined not to be distracted from the competition.
Under a floorboard, Sage finds a lyric book that belonged to Mitchie, Connie’s daughter. Demi Lovato returns as Mitchie Torres. The lyric book is the film’s best idea. It ties the new campers to the old story without making the old stars carry the movie.
Callie Leads the Dance Challenge
The second challenge is a dance-focused task led by Callie while Lark eliminates contestants. Sage saves Desi from elimination by distracting Lark, causing her to bump into Maddie. Lark then eliminates Maddie and her backup dancers, which infuriates Maddie. Sage, Desi, Fletch, Rosie and Cliff become the finalists.
Summer is back in session.
That tagline is doing more work than the film does. The competition structure is clean and easy to follow, but it is also thin. Two challenges, a handful of eliminations, and a finale. For 93 minutes that is enough. For a legacy sequel to a film that defined a generation of Disney Channel viewers, it is a light load.
A Running Order With Two Real Beats
The film’s structure is basically a summer camp schedule. Here is how the competition actually breaks down.
| Stage | Event | Who leads | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrival | Phones confiscated by Connie Torres | Connie Torres | Anyone caught with a phone is removed |
| Challenge 1 | Campers perform “Play My Music” | Campers perform; Connect 3 and Lark oversee | Sage, Desi, Cliff, Rosie, Fletch, Maddie and her backup dancers pass |
| Workshop | Songwriting pairing | Camp staff | Sage paired with Fletch; he performs a song for her |
| Challenge 2 | Dance-focused task | Callie Banks, with Lark eliminating | Sage distracts Lark, who bumps into Maddie; Maddie and her backup dancers are cut |
| Finalists | Remaining campers | — | Named in the source as the finalists |
The table shows the problem. The film has two challenges and a workshop, and the workshop is where the actual character work happens. The challenges are spectacle. The workshop is where Sage and Fletch connect, and where Desi and Callie start circling each other.
The available material cuts off there. It names the finalists and stops, so the finale and its outcome are not described here.
Fletch Robinson Is the Best Thing Here
Malachi Barton’s Fletch is the movie’s most interesting piece. He arrives in a police car, he keeps his past vague, and he is the only camper who seems to have a life outside the competition. The romance with Sage works because Barton plays him as genuinely warm rather than mysterious for its own sake.
Segura carries the lead well. Sage’s guilt about breaking up her brother’s band is the emotional spine of the film, and Segura plays the tension without overdoing it. The scenes between Sage and Desi are the ones that land.
Sherry Cola is having fun as Lark. The film gives her the eliminations and the pressure, and she plays a manager who is not cruel, just impatient. Maria Canals-Barrera slips back into Connie Torres like no time has passed. The phone confiscation is her best scene. It is a small, funny piece of authority.
The Jonas Brothers return as Shane, Nate and Jason Gray, and the film uses them largely as a framing device. Joe Jonas gets the suggestion that sends them back to camp. Nick and Kevin are present.
What the Legacy Sequel Actually Delivers
Camp Rock 3 is a legacy sequel that understands its job. It brings back the Jonas Brothers, Canals-Barrera and Lovato, and it hands the story to a new generation. That is the correct move. The problem is that the new generation’s story is a competition plot, and competition plots are only as good as their stakes.
The stakes here are a tour opening slot. That is a real prize, and the film treats it as one. But the eliminations do not cost much. Maddie gets cut and is furious, and then the film moves on. Desi nearly gets cut and Sage saves him, and then the film moves on. The emotional consequences are stated rather than felt.
The lyric book is the exception. It is the one piece of the film that connects the two eras in a way that means something. Mitchie’s lyrics under a floorboard is a better idea than any of the musical numbers, because it suggests the camp has a history that the new campers are only starting to understand. That idea is not pushed as far as it could be.
Camp Rock 3 Is a Pleasant Disney Channel Musical
Camp Rock 3 is a pleasant, well-cast, competently made Disney Channel musical. It is not a disaster, and it is not a triumph. It is a film that knows what it is and does it without much ambition.
The cast is the reason to watch. Segura and Barton have real chemistry, and the Sage-Desi relationship gives the film a center. Cola and Canals-Barrera are reliable. The music is fine, the pacing is fine.
What is missing is risk. The original Camp Rock was a scrappy underdog story about a girl who did not fit in. Camp Rock 3 is about a competition the main characters are built to win. The tension between Sage and Desi is the only thread that feels unresolved, and the source does not say how it ends.
The 6.5/10 from TMDB’s audience score, based on 118 votes, is a fair read. It is a film for people who already love Camp Rock, and it serves them. It is not a film that will make anyone new love it. The lyric book deserved a better movie around it.
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