| Posted by: Kevin Smith fan at June 23, 2008, 8:14 pm | | Topic: Nineteen Ninety Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I thought we could use a spot to share our favorite flops from the nineties in a review/rant style thread about the numerous box office busts of the nineties. Not quite sure what the threads about? Watch the Phantom, Congo, Hook, Waterworld, or Judge Dread and you'll know what I'm talking about. I guess I'll start off with a couple, feel free to add your own: HEAVYWEIGHTS Part of Disney's slew of live action underdog films of the mid 90's spurred by the success of the Mighty Ducks (and even featuring much of the same cast and writer/director Steven Brill), Heavyweights is a criminally overlooked film about kids just wanting to be kids. We start off on the last day of school as the students erupt out of school and head home for freedom. But for Jerrald Garner, his parents have plans of sending him off to camp...fat camp. The movie is absolutely hilarious and still is to this day. Its the rare breed of comedy that truley any age can get a laugh out of. Now days we're plagued with CGI rehashings of stories we've heard hundreds of times before as a source of children's entertainment, but this truley is a film for everyone. The kids are all spot on and rediculously funny. Its hard to see how far today's Disney stars have come from this and turned into super Madonna pre-teens, like Hannah Montanna or Drake and Cody. These kids ARE kids. They don't overdue it, and it really lightens the load on taking the film in. The adults also add a lot to the film. Instead of being stuck with the kids' perspective throughout the entire film, the grown-ups get a break with the counselors and new camp owner Tony Perkis (which may be Ben Stiller's funniest role to date). Stiller and the over the top counselors play their roles just over the top enough to be absolutely hilarious without becoming annoying. Nearly every word that comes out of Lars' mouth is pure gold and quote worthy. The film is just so fun, the only word I can really think of that sums it up is SUMMER. It's the perfect summer movie (at least for me). I think when watching it, you can kind of tell it may have been intended for an older audience but then scenes where dubbed over or cut down to keep it to a "disney-friendly" level. This is just one more reason for me to love Judd Apatow too. 85/100 |
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