Heavyweights

Heavyweights (1995) is a Disney family comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Steven Brill. Camp Hope has always been a laid-back summer retreat for overweight kids — a little exercise, a lot of fun. Then fitness-obsessed control freak Tony buys the place and turns it into a prison camp.

Ben Stiller plays Tony as a man completely unhinged by his own brand, installing surveillance cameras, slashing meals down to nothing and turning every waking hour into a workout. New camper Jerry and his friends put up with it — until they don't. A pre-SNL Kenan Thompson is among the kids staging the revolt.

Stiller goes full villain and the film is better for it; he treats a kids' comedy with the same committed energy he'd bring to anything else. Light, cheerful, and still pretty funny thirty years on. Stream Heavyweights (1995) online on iFILM.