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Movie Reviews of Heavyweights
Movie Review: 5 Stars
The best thing I can say about Heavyweights is that it probably wouldn't be made today. It pulls no punches, pokes fun at all the most questionable places, and avoids political correctness.Heavyweights is the story of a bunch of fat kids at a fat kid summer camp. They all attend because their parents want them to lose weight, and on its surface, that's what the camp is about. However, the camp owners actually have a great place, with all sorts of games, activities, and even go-karts. Unfortunately for the piglets, the camp is under new management.
The new owner Tony Perkins (Ben Stiller) has a grandiose idea to "help" these kids lose weight, and run a successful camp. His ulterior motive, however, is to use film footage of his camp experience and make an infomercial from which he plans to make millions. His methodology at the camp: exercise torture.
In a matter of no time, the camp is in chaos, all the kids are terrified, and Tony Perkins has instituted policies that make camp life a living hell. There's a ton of exercise, psychological warfare, and basic training-level discipline. This is where the hilarity ensues.
A collection of comedy follows, in what could easily be seen as the tgrue beginning to Ben Stiller's career. Jabs at both the lazy habits and self-defeating nature of the obese, as well as those who loathe them, keep the laughs coming. I particularly loved the scene in which the kids are all at the lake, basically tied to one another, yelling "Buuudddyyyyy!" to prove they were watching one another - a hilariously great idea for the lazy personnel manager.
Will the kids lose weight? Will they survive? Will Perkins keep the camp and make huge money with his infomercial? Who cares...it's hilarious, just sit back and enjoy the fat jokes.
Movie Review: cheese movie heaven!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
when i was growing up i used to watch a lot of the dumbest children's shows ever. the disney channel was responsible for a lot of the then goofy humor that everyone now doesn't appreciate that much. in the mid 90's i remember watching the mighty ducks, honey i shrunk the kids, honey i blew up the kid, blank check etc.., then along came a movie called heavyweights. when i first saw this movie i couldn't stop laughing at the stupid humor these kids could come up with, but what i thought made the movie was ben stiller as "uncle" tony perkis. his whole attitude and mannerisms in this movie are his best work i think he has ever and will ever do. some of the funniest moments in this movie seem like they could happen at any camp. the quotes from this movie will stay burned in my brain forever. when tony perkis finds the campers candy and meat stash, he finds a huge salami in one of the bunk bed's boards. without missing a beat he says "ooh look, a deli meat!!!" as he bends it in half and sends it flying behind his head as it rolls off a table. for some reason this type of filming with a lot of just down right dumb one liners will never get too old for me. i guess it is what you grow up on that makes you prejudice towards any new shows or movies that come out in the future. but for me this will always be one of my favorite comedies of all time.Movie Review: Excellence...with salamis on their backs, and twinkies on their pizza...
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has been in my collection for about 14 years. I always found it relentlessly funny, good natured, and full of wonderful comic acting and timing. Ben Stiller before he was a big star. And, it's a Judd Apatow movie for kids. Can't get any better to me. The movie centers on Gerry Garner, a chubby kid from Long Island with a mean dad, who himself in retrospect can't get away from work, or his own personal stuff to spend time with his overweight son. The other kids, namely Keenan Thompson, and Goldberg from Mighty Ducks all shine, full of one liners and great physical comedy. There are some seriously funny can't miss sequences here, some involving a strenuous hike, a hilarious food discovery, weigh in/photo session montage, and quite a few others. The line I can't ever forget in this movie is "You've Broken My Camera!". When you see it, you'll know why I laugh. Seriously. All things aside, I think this movie is excellent for the 8 and up crowd, and at 22, I still find myself cracking up at it. Yes, I was and am a fat kid, but I never had a problem finding something about myself to laugh at. This movie is excellent...and was also a sign of things to come...look at Apatow now! ENJOY!Movie Review: Oh look a deli meat, and the best movie ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far Ben Stiller's best performance ever, and if you can't appreciate it you obviously haven't seen it enough times. These people who give the movie one star, spouting non-sense about it putting skinny people in a false light, are simply incompetent. I'm skinny and when I sleep I make a very disturbing sound don't be alawmed I'm fine, and my feelings aren't hurt by this movie. These critics are spreaders of negativity and I won't have them corrupting my cult movie. How would their fathers like to know that their children are destroyers. Here is a suggestion for watching the movie...watch it in a large group of people who truly appreciate it and can quote it, fast-forward till Ben Stiller arrives, watch the movie fast-forwarding through the sappy fat kid moments like the go-cart and dock ("keep your washboard stomachs and oily muscles") scenes and press stop when Ben Stiller leaves. You will learn valuable lessons like regardless of whether or not it will "smush" always have crazy guys locked up in cages through over hershey's kisses making your queen proud, and that lunch can be cancelled due to lack of hustle. In closing I have one final thing to say "Come on you devil log."Movie Review: "Hey, dont pee in the wata! Dont drink the wata, he peed it"
Summary: 5 Stars
HAHAHA!!!!! This movie's FRIGGIN' AWESOME!!!! This is Ben Stiller's best movie!!! And I don't mean it as "In addition to 'Along Came Polly'" or anything, no, THIS is his best movie ever!!!HEAVYWEIGHTS is about all these kids that go to a fat camp, little do they know, that their camp is under new management. Enter their 'new owner and operator' Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller).
Tony is like one of those health buffs that do weird exercises and have weird techniques and such, all of which are highly ineffective. All of this drives the kids to sneaking candy and cheating, which is what they always do at camp, but this time, they'er desperate.
The co-stars in the movie are awesome, there's Lars, the strange foriegn counselor with a hilarious accent and funny sleeping problem, there's Kenny the camera-man, who may look familiar to you if you've seen plenty of Adam Sandler movies, Roy and Josh, comedic camp legends, and of course, Gerry, the main fat kid in the movie.
You'll absolutley love this movie, with all the funny quotes and jokes, but if you don't, screw you!