Rating: 
Summary: A Must-See for Anyone With a Sense of Humor
Review: "Heavyweights" is perhaps the most underrated comedy of the 90s, if not other eras as well. Some of the lines have been inserted into my daily dialogue ("a loser with a ...!") and will remain there until I decide to grow up. Ben Stiller makes this movie funny. He plays the role so well he makes Tony Little, the Gazelle infomercial guy, look like he doesn't know the meaning of the word fitness. This is Ben Stiller at his finest...and Lars is the most under- appreciated support role EVER.
Rating:
Summary: my mans packin
Review: "repulse the monkey - part the wild horses mane" "im doggin it, lets go T" "i see a future chairman of a fortune 500 company, there i see a future rap artist..." "i like comedians, maybe i should book you on a tour sometime" "get off the scale!" "you're a negativity spreader" "there are alot of myths about the abdominal muscles, this is one i am glad to put to rest... you disgust me!"
Rating:
Summary: ABSOLUTELY GENIUS
Review: Best moive ever written. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never throw the dodgeball at the fat kid again. Fear the blob, enjoy the go-karts, then head back home to the chipmunk bunk where you may eat all the candy you want... you may even get a taste of england. Just be sure you can drive stick and keep it under 60 due to the weird local cops. But fear the switch from the friendly owners to team jerkis. Now the blob is dead, go-karts in pieces, and the candy stash gone. I'd give this 6 out of 5, it's that good. Plus, if you like this move as much as I, you can head on over to http://heavyweights.bravepages.com/, the heavyweights movie media club, and download yourself some nice sound bytes from the movie. Currently the largest, and only, archive on the net!
Rating:
Summary: Disney and Stiller at their best!
Review: Disney and Stiller delivers a smash hit. A movie that says "It's phat to be fat." Ben Stiller delivers a laugh-a-minute roller coaster ride. An instant classic for the whole family.
Rating: 
Summary: Where's the widescreen treatment?
Review: Disney strikes again, ruining another
classic with a DVD sans- widescreen format,
remastered video, or special features.
I'm not arguing against the fact that
Heavyweights is a masterpiece but...
If you can put 5.1 on a movie that lends
itself to 2 actual surround sound moments,
then consider adding the following on the
10 yr Anniversary Edition:
commentary by stiller and cast
original marketing stills
"Oh, Wow- GoKarts" - an original feature documentary
Papa Perkis' Recipies for Dieters
Leah Lail on finding the infirmary
"Cody Wants to Have Fun" a featurette by Cody Burger
"Tranformational Facilitators and Me" promo
until then Disney Classic DVD's,
You stink, you stink, you stink, you stink!
Rating:
Summary: Great movie, but average DVD...
Review: First off let me just say that Heavyweights is a GREAT movie. I think it's very funny and entertaining for almost any age. I'm 23 and I still enjoy it, even though I first saw it when I was 15 or 16. In fact that's why I bought the DVD from amazon.com (I could not find it in any stores in my area).The reason I give this DVD 3 stars is because it's Fullscreen, and not Widescreen. I have a widescreen television and am a big home-theatre buff, so this was a bit of a disappointment for me. Had this been in Widescreen it would have gotten five stars easy. I looked everywhere to see if they made a widescreen version but it looks like there isn't one... even on Disney's website they only have this version. I would have liked to have seen some Special Features as well, like out-takes and what not. I guess I've just been spoiled by other DVDs. Either way great movie!
Rating:
Summary: Great movie, but average DVD...
Review: First off let me just say that Heavyweights is a GREAT movie. I think it's very funny and entertaining for almost any age. I'm 23 and I still enjoy it, even though I first saw it when I was 15 or 16. In fact that's why I bought the DVD from amazon.com (I could not find it in any stores in my area). The reason I give this DVD 3 stars is because it's Fullscreen, and not Widescreen. I have a widescreen television and am a big home-theatre buff, so this was a bit of a disappointment for me. Had this been in Widescreen it would have gotten five stars easy. I looked everywhere to see if they made a widescreen version but it looks like there isn't one... even on Disney's website they only have this version. I would have liked to have seen some Special Features as well, like out-takes and what not. I guess I've just been spoiled by other DVDs. Either way great movie!
Rating: 
Summary: Great Camp Movie.
Review: Granted this film has a few plot holes (how did Tony Perkis change clothes so fast on the twenty mile hike) and it was originally geared towards children. Nevertheless, HEAVYWEIGHTS is one of the better movies made about summer camps.
HEAVYWEIGHTS revolves around a youth named Gerry. Gerry is a bit overweight and the opening shots of the film illustrate how this causes Gerry problems. His parents decide that Gerry needs some excitement in his life and send him away to a fat camp. At first Gerry isn't too thrilled by the idea. But then he figures out that it's not bad at all because at camp, his weight isn't an issue because all the kids there are overweight like he is. The conflict in the film begins when the campers and staff learn that the elderly couple who have been running the camp for so long have been forced to sell the camp. The camp's new owner, Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) is a fitness guru who wants to use the camp to make a fortune filming the odyssey of this camp full of heavyweights who are turned into muscle machines by the end of summer.
HEAVYWEIGHTS is really a good movie that's a lot of fun to watch. It's got a solid message about respecting yourself for who you are, yet the delivery isn't so over the top that it's smaltzy. There are a lot of wonderful one liners throughout the movie that are great for quoting throughout life. The acting is superb, especially since most of the actors are overweight adolescents. Ben Stiller is hilarious playing Tony Perkis (he recently reincarnated his Tony Perkis character in the raunchy, adult summer garbage-fest DODGEBALL) and this was one of Stiller's earlier breaks in his career.
Overall, HEAVYWEIGHTS is a great camp movie that has a little bit of something that everyone should be able to appreciate and enjoy. Now, repulse the monkey.
Rating:
Summary: "Hey, dont pee in the wata! Dont drink the wata, he peed it"
Review: 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!
Rating:
Summary: "Hey, dont pee in the wata! Dont drink the wata, he peed it"
Review: 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!
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