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* {{CloudCuckoolander}}: A number of characters, but especially Lars. His ridiculous dance when the girl's camp showed up combined with his almost alien outlook on various things makes one think he's not OK in the head.
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* CoolOldGuy: Tony Perkis Sr. seems to have it a lot more [[Understatement together]] than his [[PsychopathicManchild son]].
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* OneOfTheKids: Pat is this, to the detriment of the actual effectiveness of Camp Hope. The original owners appeared to have traces of this too.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Tony PerkisSr, Sr., the "Lighting Fixture King" of Western Pennsylvania.
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* LargeHam: [[BigBad Tony]] and [[TheDragon Lars]].
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* ShoutOut: To, of all things, {{Film/Schindlers List}}.
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--> '''Maury''': (to Gerry) I did not send you to ''Go-Kart Camp.''
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* GibberishOfLove: When Nurse Julie asks Pat where the bathroom is, he chokes, despite having twenty years of experience at Camp Hope.
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** GetARoom: Two of Gerry's schoolmates celebrate by making out.
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* GilliganCut: Used when Gerry refuses to watch the Camp Hope video, and again when he refuses to go to camp.
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* RightOnTheTick: The first shot of the movie is a middle school hallway clock, as Gerry is dismissed for the summer at exactly 3:00p.m.
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* YouMightRememberMeFrom: Pat is very proud of his work in the camp's promotional video.
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-->'''Josh:''' Perkis sent me home without a refund. My dad's a lawyer; he threatened to sue, and Perkis caved like the Buffalo Bills in the (1993) Super Bowl.
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-->'''Josh:''' Perkis sent me home without a refund. My dad's a lawyer; he threatened to sue, and Perkis caved like the Buffalo Bills in the (1993) Super Bowl. (SuperBowl XXVII).
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Gerry and Pat.
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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Gerry's dad issues one just before knocking Tony's lights out.
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* FridgeLogic: Where exactly did they find the cow?
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* GibberishOfLove: When Nurse Julie asks Pat where the bathroom is, he chokes, despite having twenty years of experience at Camp Hope.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: A young [[KenanAndKel Kenan Thompson]] in an early role.
** There's quite a few, actually. Allen Covert (one of AdamSandler's regulars) plays Tony's cameraman, Paul Feig (creator of ''FreaksAndGeeks'' and the director of ''{{Bridesmaids}}'') plays Tim, [[OBrotherWhereArtThou Tim Blake Nelson]] plays Roger Lodge, [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Jeffrey Tambor]] plays Gerry's dad and of course, comedy team (and Ben's parents) Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara play the Bushkins.
** Three of the Chipmunks are [[Film/TheMightyDucks Ducks]]: Gerry, Roy, and Josh are Karp, Russ Tyler, and Goldberg, respectively.
** There's quite a few, actually. Allen Covert (one of AdamSandler's regulars) plays Tony's cameraman, Paul Feig (creator of ''FreaksAndGeeks'' and the director of ''{{Bridesmaids}}'') plays Tim, [[OBrotherWhereArtThou Tim Blake Nelson]] plays Roger Lodge, [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Jeffrey Tambor]] plays Gerry's dad and of course, comedy team (and Ben's parents) Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara play the Bushkins.
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* AlliterativeName: Gerry Gardner.
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* YouMightRememberMeFrom: Pat is very proud of his work in the camp's promotional video.
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* MassOhCrap: The revelation that Camp Hope has been sold shocks the entire camp, including veteran campers Josh and Roy.
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* ShamedByAMob: Tony, at Parents' Weekend.
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* TakeThat: Josh explaining how he got back into camp after being ejected.
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* ChekhovsSkill: One scene contains Josh Burnbalm shaving with a straight razor. Later, during the Apache Relay, one of the contests is scraping shaving cream off a balloon.
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* FatCamp: The whole premise of the movie, after all.
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A Disney movie released in [[TheNineties 1995]], ''Heavyweights'' is the story of Gerald 'Gerry' Gardner and his mates at Camp Hope — a FatCamp. Once a place filled with fun and go-karts, the camp is bought out by Tony Perkis, who intends to use the campers to make his own weight loss infomercial. Gerry and his friends are subjected to [[TrainingFromHell cruel and unusual methods]] to lose weight. Naturally, they fight back.
The movie is better than it sounds, as it had several classic one-liners, a good soundtrack and BenStiller in one early — and definitely unique — role.
Naturally, this page NeedsMoreLove.
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!!This film has examples of:
* TheAce: Josh
* ActingForTwo: Ben Stiller plays Tony and near the end, his father.
* AxCrazy: While Tony looms on the edge of this throughout the film, he really turns into this when he shows up at parent's weekend, walking on broken glass and doing cartwheels like a mad man.
* BigBad: Tony
* BingeMontage: A G-Rated version. After Tony is usurped, the campers spend a night celebrating with all the junk food and fun they've been missing, complete with a hangover-like sugar crash and indigestion the morning after.
* ChekhovsGun: On the long hike up the mountain, Gerry narrowly avoids falling into a hidden pit covered by only a few pieces of wood. Just a little while later, the same pit is used to capture Tony.
* ChekhovsSkill: One scene contains Josh Burnbalm shaving with a straight razor. Later, during the Apache Relay, one of the contests is scraping shaving cream off a balloon.
* DiscoDan: Tim. Or at least his suit.
* TheDragon: Lars.
* EvilIsHammy: Tony.
* TheFatGuy: Pretty much everyone at the camp, though Gerry's the most iconic.
* GaussianGirl: One of the girls at the dance.
* GermanicEfficiency: Played with. Lars is ''seemingly'' the perfect henchman for Tony's scheme - he's built, he's intimidating, and he's German. But he's not the brightest crayon in the box and ends up joining the good guys thanks to a traumatic incident with a bear er, deer.
** It was a big deer.
* HeelFaceTurn: Both Kenny the Camera Man and Lars, both of whom stick around after Tony is defeated.
* HighSchoolHustler: Josh is a kid version of this.
* FatCamp: The whole premise of the movie, after all.
* HeyItsThatGuy: A young [[KenanAndKel Kenan Thompson]] in an early role.
** There's quite a few, actually. Allen Covert (one of AdamSandler's regulars) plays Tony's cameraman, Paul Feig (creator of ''FreaksAndGeeks'' and the director of ''{{Bridesmaids}}'') plays Tim, [[OBrotherWhereArtThou Tim Blake Nelson]] plays Roger Lodge, [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Jeffrey Tambor]] plays Gerry's dad and of course, comedy team (and Ben's parents) Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara play the Bushkins.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gerry's father, while he has Gerry's best intentions at heart, he really comes off looking like a jerk half the time. He does make up for it by punching out Tony.
** Tony
* KickTheDog: If it wasn't obvious Tony was an ass already, ending the dance just as it gets going cements it.
* LaughablyEvil: Tony, it helps that he's played by BenStiller in his prime.
* MixedMetaphor: Tony mixes up the story of Icarus and Sisyphus, and without making a point anyway.
* TheMole: Turns out the ex-Chipmunk who works for Tony (the one who revealed their stash) also sneaks them food [[FriendInTheBlackMarket if properly compensated.]]
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou:
--> '''Tony''': My grandma can run faster than you, and she's only got ''one leg''!
* RookieRedRanger: Gerry, who is a first timer at the camp but by the end is leading the group against Tony and in the Apache Relay.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: The neighboring camp that Camp Hope competes against. They actually ''contest'' Camp Hope's win against them in the final contest, when it was clearly fair and square.
* ShallowLoveInterest: Subverted. Nurse Julie is shown to have her own reasons for helping the kids, has a medical degree giving her even more reason to be concerned about the kids, and her romance with Pat builds throughout the story.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: The Camp Hope Kids are the slobs, with their overweight and proud of it ways and lack of manners but are still really good kids. The Snobs are both sets of villains: Tony who noticeably starts out in a suit and wears very sleek sportswear throughout the movie while his minions are dressed in matching uniforms and turn the camp into hell, and the rival camp, who have nicer uniforms and look down on the Camp Hope campers and are complete douchebags.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: We never see any other campers besides the Chipmunks, and they're only implied to exist a few times.
* TrainingFromHell: Decontructed and then some. It's obvious to everyone BUT Tony that his weight loss methods are actually harming the campers, and bordering on super-dangerous.
* TrueCompanions: Chipmunk cabin
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Tony
* TheUnfettered: Tony is very, very passionate and driven about his goal to "Perkisize" the camp. By the second half of the movie, though, he's bordering on AxCrazy.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Tony has shades of this, especially near the end of the movie when his father comes to straighten things out.
** Gerry too, though to a much lighter degree.
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The movie is better than it sounds, as it had several classic one-liners, a good soundtrack and BenStiller in one early — and definitely unique — role.
Naturally, this page NeedsMoreLove.
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!!This film has examples of:
* TheAce: Josh
* ActingForTwo: Ben Stiller plays Tony and near the end, his father.
* AxCrazy: While Tony looms on the edge of this throughout the film, he really turns into this when he shows up at parent's weekend, walking on broken glass and doing cartwheels like a mad man.
* BigBad: Tony
* BingeMontage: A G-Rated version. After Tony is usurped, the campers spend a night celebrating with all the junk food and fun they've been missing, complete with a hangover-like sugar crash and indigestion the morning after.
* ChekhovsGun: On the long hike up the mountain, Gerry narrowly avoids falling into a hidden pit covered by only a few pieces of wood. Just a little while later, the same pit is used to capture Tony.
* ChekhovsSkill: One scene contains Josh Burnbalm shaving with a straight razor. Later, during the Apache Relay, one of the contests is scraping shaving cream off a balloon.
* DiscoDan: Tim. Or at least his suit.
* TheDragon: Lars.
* EvilIsHammy: Tony.
* TheFatGuy: Pretty much everyone at the camp, though Gerry's the most iconic.
* GaussianGirl: One of the girls at the dance.
* GermanicEfficiency: Played with. Lars is ''seemingly'' the perfect henchman for Tony's scheme - he's built, he's intimidating, and he's German. But he's not the brightest crayon in the box and ends up joining the good guys thanks to a traumatic incident with a bear er, deer.
** It was a big deer.
* HeelFaceTurn: Both Kenny the Camera Man and Lars, both of whom stick around after Tony is defeated.
* HighSchoolHustler: Josh is a kid version of this.
* FatCamp: The whole premise of the movie, after all.
* HeyItsThatGuy: A young [[KenanAndKel Kenan Thompson]] in an early role.
** There's quite a few, actually. Allen Covert (one of AdamSandler's regulars) plays Tony's cameraman, Paul Feig (creator of ''FreaksAndGeeks'' and the director of ''{{Bridesmaids}}'') plays Tim, [[OBrotherWhereArtThou Tim Blake Nelson]] plays Roger Lodge, [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Jeffrey Tambor]] plays Gerry's dad and of course, comedy team (and Ben's parents) Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara play the Bushkins.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gerry's father, while he has Gerry's best intentions at heart, he really comes off looking like a jerk half the time. He does make up for it by punching out Tony.
** Tony
* KickTheDog: If it wasn't obvious Tony was an ass already, ending the dance just as it gets going cements it.
* LaughablyEvil: Tony, it helps that he's played by BenStiller in his prime.
* MixedMetaphor: Tony mixes up the story of Icarus and Sisyphus, and without making a point anyway.
* TheMole: Turns out the ex-Chipmunk who works for Tony (the one who revealed their stash) also sneaks them food [[FriendInTheBlackMarket if properly compensated.]]
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou:
--> '''Tony''': My grandma can run faster than you, and she's only got ''one leg''!
* RookieRedRanger: Gerry, who is a first timer at the camp but by the end is leading the group against Tony and in the Apache Relay.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: The neighboring camp that Camp Hope competes against. They actually ''contest'' Camp Hope's win against them in the final contest, when it was clearly fair and square.
* ShallowLoveInterest: Subverted. Nurse Julie is shown to have her own reasons for helping the kids, has a medical degree giving her even more reason to be concerned about the kids, and her romance with Pat builds throughout the story.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: The Camp Hope Kids are the slobs, with their overweight and proud of it ways and lack of manners but are still really good kids. The Snobs are both sets of villains: Tony who noticeably starts out in a suit and wears very sleek sportswear throughout the movie while his minions are dressed in matching uniforms and turn the camp into hell, and the rival camp, who have nicer uniforms and look down on the Camp Hope campers and are complete douchebags.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: We never see any other campers besides the Chipmunks, and they're only implied to exist a few times.
* TrainingFromHell: Decontructed and then some. It's obvious to everyone BUT Tony that his weight loss methods are actually harming the campers, and bordering on super-dangerous.
* TrueCompanions: Chipmunk cabin
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Tony
* TheUnfettered: Tony is very, very passionate and driven about his goal to "Perkisize" the camp. By the second half of the movie, though, he's bordering on AxCrazy.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Tony has shades of this, especially near the end of the movie when his father comes to straighten things out.
** Gerry too, though to a much lighter degree.
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