History YMMV / Heavyweights

** The shot of the kid with the marshmallow creme facepaint having chocolate thrown at his mouth ends looking strangely like a {{Juggalo}}, who are known for having similar facepaint schemes (but not with chocolate and marshmallow creme).

** This wouldn't be [[Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory the last time]] Creator/BenStiller would play a villainous fitness guru. Or a [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment histrionic loudmouthed egotist named 'Tony'.]]
*** After what happened to White Goodman at the end of ''that'' film, Tony Perkis' DrillSergeantNasty antics make a lot more sense!

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the scene where Tony conducts a weigh-in of the campers, all of whom have gained weight, he has a breakdown and screams about how it isn't his fault, it's their fault and they have failed. This is played as showing Tony's SanitySlippage, but he's right -- the kids found where he was hiding their confiscated stashes of junk food and have been cheating. While there's no excuse for Tony getting so unhinged over it, his ''words'' are completely accurate. With that being said, the movie actually does attempt to recognize Tony's right in at least ''some'' sense - Pat calls out the campers later on saying they have to take responsibility for themselves and they do manage to develop better eating habits. Tony's anger at the campers having gained weight from cheating is somewhat diminished because his increasingly unhinged methods were only making everyone miserable and less interested in losing weight.

** During the Apache Relay, a Camp MVP camper struggles to name five American Vice-Presidents and only comes up with one (and he mispronounces Dan Quayle's last name as "Quill"). With how much more prominent politics is in today's media, most people could name every Vice-President back to Al Gore under Bill Clinton, and possibly know of Quayle as well. Though ironically, the joke is ''funnier'' now because of that -- that the MVP camper can't even name one correctly makes him look even dumber, and it emphasizes how smart Nicholas is that he, ''a British kid'', can name five ''historical'' Vice-Presidents (Levi P. Morton, John C. Calhoun, Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew and Walter Mondale), not just the most recent ones.
* ValuesDissonance: The Apache Relay, which features the almost entirely white roster of campers (and Pat) in [[HollywoodNatives stereotypical Native American]] outfits and makeup. While it may be true to how many American summer camps operated in the 90s, it's nowadays seen as a blatant example of cultural appropriation.

** In recent decades, the fraudulent techniques promoted by many "fitness gurus", as well the greater awareness of the psychological damage caused by bullying and fat-shaming, has made the villainy of both Tony and the [=MVP=] kids even more apparent than it was in the mid-90s.
** The final message about dieting in the third act still holds up today. Namely, that there's nothing wrong with being overweight, but that it's also important to be responsible when it comes to diet and exercise.

* MoralEventHorizon: Tony was a complete dickbag the whole movie, but when the failure of the campers to lose weight pushes him too far, he decides that anyone who hasn't met their weight loss goals will be forced to join him in a 20-mile hike through the wilderness. And when they actually pull it off, he decides to take them to climb a massive rock face barehanded; FridgeHorror would presume that Tony probably didn't bring any actual mountain climbing equipment with him like harnesses or ropes, making this a life-threatening idea. Even physically fit children would struggle to get through a day like this. Little wonder this announcement, on top of Tony pulling a deranged state when the campers want "fun", was the last straw that made the campers take drastic actions to overthrow him.

* ValuesDissonance: The Apache Relay, which features the almost entirely white roster of campers (and Pat) in stereotypical "Hollywood Indian" outfits and makeup. While it may be true to how many American summer camps operated in the 90s, it's nowadays seen as a blatant example of cultural appropriation.

* CultClassic: It wasn't a box office success in theaters, but it later became this thanks to repeated airings on Creator/DisneyChannel, Creator/BenStiller becoming a big star, and Creator/JuddApatow's writing/directing career taking off.

** During the Apache Relay, a Camp MVP camper struggles to name five American Vice-Presidents and only comes up with one (and he mispronounces Dan Quayle's name as "Quill"). With how much more prominent politics is in today's media, most people could name every Vice-President back to Al Gore under Bill Clinton, and possibly know of Quayle as well. Though ironically, the joke is ''funnier'' now because of that -- that the MVP camper can't even name one correctly makes him look even dumber, and it emphasizes how smart Nicholas is that he, ''a British kid'', can name five ''historical'' Vice-Presidents, not just the most recent ones.
* ValuesDissonance: The Apache Relay, which features the almost entirely white roster of campers (and Pat) in stereotypical "Hollywood Indian" outfits and makeup. While it may be true to how many U.S. summer camps operated in the 90's, it's nowadays seen as a blatant example of cultural appropriation.

** However, the final message about dieting in the third act still holds up today. Namely, that there's nothing wrong with being overweight, but that it's also important to be responsible when it comes to diet and exercise.

* CatharsisFactor: The campers putting Tony in a cage and Pat [[BewareTheNiceOnes leaving him there after the nutjob pushes his luck]] is more than he deserved for his cruel behavior.

* LoveToHate: Tony is batshit crazy...but in quite an entertaining way.