Heavyweights: Kenan Thompson, funny from the get-go in his second feature
This week’s grouping offers hope to the horizontally challenged, especially if one has a sense of humor when it comes to body image.
Heavyweights
The Parent Trap meets
Stalag 17 when an overnight camp for overweight kids is purchased by a motivational speaker cum celebrity fitness guru with a vengeful spirit. Once ridiculed for his husky size, the lean, mean adult-sized Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) is now looking to cash in on his recent acquisition by starring the corpulent campers in an infomercial. Judd Apatow co-wrote the script, his first for a feature film. Camp Hope isn’t an exercise camp so much as it’s a summer retreat where kids are encouraged to eat. When Apatow and co-scribe/director Steven Brill pursue the prison camp formula these kids do as good a job of hiding food as Otto Frank did his family the laughs are fairly consistent. The sight of Perkis using a knife to check lead instigat
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