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Heavyweights a fun and funny movie to watch
If you're looking for a reason to watch this movie, the one on the top of your list should be: Ben Stiller. HE plays the crazy new camp director who's trying to get the campers to slim down. His character is just so zany it holds up the rest of the movie. Memorable lines: "I'm feeling skinny Tony!", "As director of this camp I'm looking forward to interacting with kids for the first time", "Someone help me get these salamies off my back", and, "Congratulations Mr. Simms,...you are the fatest boy in camp". This is the kind of movie where you'll remember the characters for their wackiness and wit.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES!
This movie is hilarious!! Someone reviewed this movie on cd now and said that the messege to the movie is that fat kids are better then everyone else and all the healthy kids are stupid, and that it's full of stereotypical stuff. Well, if you happen to pay attention to the movie a little then you'd see that the messege to the movie was that over weight kids can do just as much as skinny kids and it also says that you shouldn't make fun of someone just because they are bigger and more heavy. It also says to be happy for who you are, even if you are a big kid. Anyway, I love this movie, I watch it whenever it is on and I end up telling my self, "I gotta buy this movie". So I'll have to buy it sometime. Ben Stiller is hilarious in "Heavyweights". Ben Stiller Plays the new owner of Camp Hope, and he puts all the kids on really unsafe diets. Like 20 mile hikes, food deprevation, and more. All the kids at the camp decide to rebel against him! I'd give this movie more stars if I could. Really great movie!!

"Hey, dont pee in the wata! Dont drink the wata, he peed it"
HAHAHA!!!!! This movie's FRIGGIN' AWESOME!!!! This is Ben Stiller's best movie!!! And I don't mean it as "In addition to 'Along Came Polly'" or anything, no, THIS is his best movie ever!!!
HEAVYWEIGHTS is about all these kids that go to a fat camp, little do they know, that their camp is under new management. Enter their 'new owner and operator' Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller).
Tony is like one of those health buffs that do weird exercises and have weird techniques and such, all of which are highly ineffective. All of this drives the kids to sneaking candy and cheating, which is what they always do at camp, but this time, they'er desperate.
The co-stars in the movie are awesome, there's Lars, the strange foriegn counselor with a hilarious accent and funny sleeping problem, there's Kenny the camera-man, who may look familiar to you if you've seen plenty of Adam Sandler movies, Roy and Josh, comedic camp legends, and of course, Gerry, the main fat kid in the movie.
You'll absolutley love this movie, with all the funny quotes and jokes, but if you don't, screw you!

ABSOLUTELY GENIUS
Best moive ever written. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never throw the dodgeball at the fat kid again. Fear the blob, enjoy the go-karts, then head back home to the chipmunk bunk where you may eat all the candy you want... you may even get a taste of england. Just be sure you can drive stick and keep it under 60 due to the weird local cops. But fear the switch from the friendly owners to team jerkis. Now the blob is dead, go-karts in pieces, and the candy stash gone. I'd give this 6 out of 5, it's that good. Plus, if you like this move as much as I, you can head on over to http://heavyweights.bravepages.com/, the heavyweights movie media club, and download yourself some nice sound bytes from the movie. Currently the largest, and only, archive on the net!

Great movie, but average DVD...
First off let me just say that Heavyweights is a GREAT movie. I think it's very funny and entertaining for almost any age. I'm 23 and I still enjoy it, even though I first saw it when I was 15 or 16. In fact that's why I bought the DVD from amazon.com (I could not find it in any stores in my area).

The reason I give this DVD 3 stars is because it's Fullscreen, and not Widescreen. I have a widescreen television and am a big home-theatre buff, so this was a bit of a disappointment for me. Had this been in Widescreen it would have gotten five stars easy. I looked everywhere to see if they made a widescreen version but it looks like there isn't one... even on Disney's website they only have this version.

I would have liked to have seen some Special Features as well, like out-takes and what not. I guess I've just been spoiled by other DVDs. Either way great movie! ... Read more

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You Won't Believe Your Eyes...Not Both of Them Anyway!
You will recognize almost everyone in this film and I don't think it ever even made the big screen. This is one of those pictures that became a cult classic on cable and video. If you're not yet a Hudson Leick fan-and if you're not, we'll send a few of the boys around to speak wit youz-buy this now because when it finally hits network TV, her entire role will be in the program director's VCR, not on your screen. I have no idea why they changed the name from Denial to Something About Sex but I can only imagine that it was...and still is...too hot to handle. I've never seen such a classy combination of sex and humor and, as a licensed private detective, I am compelled by law to give it 5 Stars.

Yes,the scene with Hudson Leick is worth buying this video!!
Let me make this perfectly clear,the only reason why I even heard of this movie,rented this movie and ultimatly bought this movie was because of the infamous sex scene with Hudson Leick AKA
Callisto to Xena fans.And yes,the scene is really,really good and yes,Hudson Leick is really,really sexy!If you're an admirer of Hudson Leick/Callisto(which 9 out of 10 you are if you're checking out this review)then buy this video as it is extremely rare.She is not credited on the box cover nor in the opening credits,but you will find her name at the end.If you can buy this movie for a good price,then do so!

Woody would like it.
While I was watching this film I couldn't help but think of Woody Allen films. This movie is very much like some of his films. Something about sex focuses on the sex lives of three married couples and there various stages and insecurities about fadelity. The film opens at a dinner party where a guest, Art Witz(Jason Alexzander), proposes to the three seemingly happy couples that monogomy is not natural. The rest of the film covers the journey these people take to answer that question. I found this film quite entertaining. The cast was very good. Each character had there own sort of neurotic qualities that made them unique. To be more specific one character uses the same line over and over to pick up women, another has a fetish for porn(which leads to a hilarious cameo from Ron Jeremy), another a liking for "special" massages, and one character is obsessed with larger women. All this makes for some really funny stuff. I thought the film was well edited. It seemed to know just when to cut, never too much, which is a credit to the director Adam Rifkin. I recommend this film. It delivers exactly what it promises with it's title. I said earlier it reminded me of a Woody Allen film, well yes, but without New York, and with graphic sex scenes(Allen never has these). If you like this film I also suggest Friends and Lovers which is very similar in context to this film. If you like comedies about sex you will like Something About Sex.

Hudson Leick makes Something about sex special
First up, Hudson wasn't in the opening credits of the film. The movie begins when Art(played by Jason Alexander of Seinfield fame.) is invited to a party with three couples. They are Issacc(Ryan Alosio) and Claudia(Amy Yasbeck), Joel(Jonathan Silverman) and Sophie(Leah Lail) and Sam(Patrick Dempsey) and Sammie(Christine Taylor). Art begins to discuss that adultery is "the monogamy denial". He says, "I think that monogamy is not natural. I really don't think it exists. At least not in practice. It turns otherwise honorable people into liars.....people cheat! It happens all the time.That`s why they don't like to talk about it." There's an argument from the three couples saying that he doesn't know what he`s talking about. And the rest of the story it shows you that Art is right.

I`m only discussing one of the couples, Issacc and Claudia because of Hudson's involvement. Issacc cheats on his wife with various women. In the story we see Eve(Shawnee Free-Jones) a young college girl who he has sex with and believes all his lies and Deborah(HUDSON LEICK) who he and Joel meet at a hockey game. Claudia also cheats on Issacc with Art. She tells him that she and her husband have an agreement on to never ask questions. So when Art meets Issac he gets nervous around him and Issacc asks Claudia why he got psycho, all she does is smile. So he asks her did she sleep with him and she said remember our agreement, so he stops and thinks about his affairs and doesn`t say boo. And they start to play wrestle in bed.

In Hudson's performance she plays Deborah. At the hockey game Issac says to Joel that women can't seperate the difference between sex and love. To them it's all the same, but men can seperate the difference. So Deborah, Hudson's character, overhears it and says that it isn`t true. A woman can have a one night stand and forget about it. Also, she tells him that every female he had sex with isn't sitting at home by the phone waiting for him to call. But infact Eve is doing that. Here it shows you that some women are like what Issac said and some women are like what Deborah said. Hence they are both right and both wrong. The next scene of Hudson is that she is in bed with Issac(her first nude scene to best of my knowledge). Issac is trying to feed her the lines he fed Eve and Deborah doesn`t buy it. Deborah tells him to shut up and go back to the sexual intercourse.

Overall the movie tried to give a reasonable explaination of what happens in marriages, but it doesn't tell enough. What it does tell is true in some relationships, if not all. The movie to a certain extent can be used as a documentary on the way people interact in mid to late 1990`s. What it lacks is that it isn't diverse enough and it was too positive. At the end there are some marriages that end like that, but many more are different.

Something About Infidelity
This movie was very entertaining. A writer inplants the obsessions of infidelity to three seemingly happy couples. It leads onto a road of self havock. A great representation of the taboo thirsts in all of us. Some characters you love, some you hate, some you sympathize with others just disgust you. Even big man Ron Jeremy make a funny cameo while at the "office", if you know what I mean. Only disappointments were the full screen format and the mono sound. Overall a good flick. ... Read more

Description

From the creator of THE MIGHTY DUCKS comes HEAVYWEIGHTS, a comedy of enormous proportions! It's the hilarious story of a group of underdog kids who discover their beloved summer camp has been sold to a crazy fitness fanatic who's determined to make their lives miserable! The new owner plans to keep the boys huffing and puffing, but these hungry kids have a plan of their own. They unite to turn the tables, take back their woodsy hideaway, and challenge the rival camp to the most outrageous summer games of all! You'll laugh out loud with these HEAVYWEIGHTS -- they're big, loud, and proud, and ready to win their way into your heart! ... Read more

Reviews (42)

Heavyweights a fun and funny movie to watch
If you're looking for a reason to watch this movie, the one on the top of your list should be: Ben Stiller. HE plays the crazy new camp director who's trying to get the campers to slim down. His character is just so zany it holds up the rest of the movie. Memorable lines: "I'm feeling skinny Tony!", "As director of this camp I'm looking forward to interacting with kids for the first time", "Someone help me get these salamies off my back", and, "Congratulations Mr. Simms,...you are the fatest boy in camp". This is the kind of movie where you'll remember the characters for their wackiness and wit.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES!
This movie is hilarious!! Someone reviewed this movie on cd now and said that the messege to the movie is that fat kids are better then everyone else and all the healthy kids are stupid, and that it's full of stereotypical stuff. Well, if you happen to pay attention to the movie a little then you'd see that the messege to the movie was that over weight kids can do just as much as skinny kids and it also says that you shouldn't make fun of someone just because they are bigger and more heavy. It also says to be happy for who you are, even if you are a big kid. Anyway, I love this movie, I watch it whenever it is on and I end up telling my self, "I gotta buy this movie". So I'll have to buy it sometime. Ben Stiller is hilarious in "Heavyweights". Ben Stiller Plays the new owner of Camp Hope, and he puts all the kids on really unsafe diets. Like 20 mile hikes, food deprevation, and more. All the kids at the camp decide to rebel against him! I'd give this movie more stars if I could. Really great movie!!

"Hey, dont pee in the wata! Dont drink the wata, he peed it"
HAHAHA!!!!! This movie's FRIGGIN' AWESOME!!!! This is Ben Stiller's best movie!!! And I don't mean it as "In addition to 'Along Came Polly'" or anything, no, THIS is his best movie ever!!!
HEAVYWEIGHTS is about all these kids that go to a fat camp, little do they know, that their camp is under new management. Enter their 'new owner and operator' Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller).
Tony is like one of those health buffs that do weird exercises and have weird techniques and such, all of which are highly ineffective. All of this drives the kids to sneaking candy and cheating, which is what they always do at camp, but this time, they'er desperate.
The co-stars in the movie are awesome, there's Lars, the strange foriegn counselor with a hilarious accent and funny sleeping problem, there's Kenny the camera-man, who may look familiar to you if you've seen plenty of Adam Sandler movies, Roy and Josh, comedic camp legends, and of course, Gerry, the main fat kid in the movie.
You'll absolutley love this movie, with all the funny quotes and jokes, but if you don't, screw you!

ABSOLUTELY GENIUS
Best moive ever written. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never throw the dodgeball at the fat kid again. Fear the blob, enjoy the go-karts, then head back home to the chipmunk bunk where you may eat all the candy you want... you may even get a taste of england. Just be sure you can drive stick and keep it under 60 due to the weird local cops. But fear the switch from the friendly owners to team jerkis. Now the blob is dead, go-karts in pieces, and the candy stash gone. I'd give this 6 out of 5, it's that good. Plus, if you like this move as much as I, you can head on over to http://heavyweights.bravepages.com/, the heavyweights movie media club, and download yourself some nice sound bytes from the movie. Currently the largest, and only, archive on the net!

Great movie, but average DVD...
First off let me just say that Heavyweights is a GREAT movie. I think it's very funny and entertaining for almost any age. I'm 23 and I still enjoy it, even though I first saw it when I was 15 or 16. In fact that's why I bought the DVD from amazon.com (I could not find it in any stores in my area).

The reason I give this DVD 3 stars is because it's Fullscreen, and not Widescreen. I have a widescreen television and am a big home-theatre buff, so this was a bit of a disappointment for me. Had this been in Widescreen it would have gotten five stars easy. I looked everywhere to see if they made a widescreen version but it looks like there isn't one... even on Disney's website they only have this version.

I would have liked to have seen some Special Features as well, like out-takes and what not. I guess I've just been spoiled by other DVDs. Either way great movie! ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Dreadful film brought to us by Roger Corman.
"Body Waves" is a 1992 movie that comes across as an '80s leftover. Rick is a young man who tries to be an entrepreneur. Him and his buddy buy cases and cases of suntan lotion. They try and sell the lotion at the beach but nobody's buying. Rick stumbles across a trio of nerds who decide that they will pay him a bunch of money if he teaches them how to be desirable to the opposite sex. You can see where this is going, right?

It's yet another film whose sole purpose is to show several topless women. Now, there's nothing wrong with topless women...it's just that a full-length movie needs a little more than that to stay interesting. "V.I.P." fans will be interested to know that this was the first movie role for Leah Lail (the blonde computer whiz). No...you don't get to see her topless, but you do get to see that she has decent acting talent.

"Body Waves" is completely insulting to anyone over the age of 12. It's simply a rehash of about a hundred lame comedies from the '80s. Wave goodbye to this one. ... Read more

Reviews (6)

It depends on you
It depends on you; it depends on your experiences.

This movie might be good for you; you can find something very similar to you...

If you have ever been one of this guy, or if you have ever spent a night like this.

I like it very much.

not great but kept me entertained
I saw this movie when it premired on starz. That's right it's a starz original. It has it's bad parts (the cop) it's good parts (golf course and psycholigist) and slow parts but through it all it kept me entertained even though it was uneven. It is a pretty good plot that took some bad turns. Weber was funny though.

Excellent movie!!
Yet the beginning of this movie does seem to sort of remind you of Swingers, the movie turns itself around. It turns out to be a great movie in total. I do have to say that if you like this movie, then you will also like Swingers. This movie really deserved more credit.

Bizarre yet alluring...
I didn't expect to watch the entire film - but I identified with the characters. It is very much a male-bonding sort of thing - but that's not always a bad thing. If you're a male in your late 20s or early-mid 30s, you'll find yourself enthralled with some of the decisions these guys make throughout the film.

The writing and acting is solid. It takes some peculiar twists and turns because it doesn't have a plot. Like the typical male-bonding film, LLL meanders through different parties, different friends, different drugs, all during the course of one evening. But you never know where it'll take you next. Those who live in LA will identify with the film even more than the average joe, since it goes in and out of locales we angelinos frequent day in/day out. Check it out - it's worth 90 minutes of your time, especially if you live in LA.

Hey, this was pretty good
For a straight to video comedy with a box that spoofs Swingers,this movie was pretty funny... this movie had me laughing all the waythrough... even though the plot was thin, and the outcome pretty obvious... The movie had a lot of good drinking and party scenes, and it's heavy on drugs humor--so if that's not your thing, maybe you should pass it up. Fortunately for me, I like that kind of stuff. Nothing new, but not unbearable. ... Read more

Reviews (9)

You Won't Believe Your Eyes...Not Both of Them Anyway!
You will recognize almost everyone in this film and I don't think it ever even made the big screen. This is one of those pictures that became a cult classic on cable and video. If you're not yet a Hudson Leick fan-and if you're not, we'll send a few of the boys around to speak wit youz-buy this now because when it finally hits network TV, her entire role will be in the program director's VCR, not on your screen. I have no idea why they changed the name from Denial to Something About Sex but I can only imagine that it was...and still is...too hot to handle. I've never seen such a classy combination of sex and humor and, as a licensed private detective, I am compelled by law to give it 5 Stars.

Yes,the scene with Hudson Leick is worth buying this video!!
Let me make this perfectly clear,the only reason why I even heard of this movie,rented this movie and ultimatly bought this movie was because of the infamous sex scene with Hudson Leick AKA
Callisto to Xena fans.And yes,the scene is really,really good and yes,Hudson Leick is really,really sexy!If you're an admirer of Hudson Leick/Callisto(which 9 out of 10 you are if you're checking out this review)then buy this video as it is extremely rare.She is not credited on the box cover nor in the opening credits,but you will find her name at the end.If you can buy this movie for a good price,then do so!

Woody would like it.
While I was watching this film I couldn't help but think of Woody Allen films. This movie is very much like some of his films. Something about sex focuses on the sex lives of three married couples and there various stages and insecurities about fadelity. The film opens at a dinner party where a guest, Art Witz(Jason Alexzander), proposes to the three seemingly happy couples that monogomy is not natural. The rest of the film covers the journey these people take to answer that question. I found this film quite entertaining. The cast was very good. Each character had there own sort of neurotic qualities that made them unique. To be more specific one character uses the same line over and over to pick up women, another has a fetish for porn(which leads to a hilarious cameo from Ron Jeremy), another a liking for "special" massages, and one character is obsessed with larger women. All this makes for some really funny stuff. I thought the film was well edited. It seemed to know just when to cut, never too much, which is a credit to the director Adam Rifkin. I recommend this film. It delivers exactly what it promises with it's title. I said earlier it reminded me of a Woody Allen film, well yes, but without New York, and with graphic sex scenes(Allen never has these). If you like this film I also suggest Friends and Lovers which is very similar in context to this film. If you like comedies about sex you will like Something About Sex.

Hudson Leick makes Something about sex special
First up, Hudson wasn't in the opening credits of the film. The movie begins when Art(played by Jason Alexander of Seinfield fame.) is invited to a party with three couples. They are Issacc(Ryan Alosio) and Claudia(Amy Yasbeck), Joel(Jonathan Silverman) and Sophie(Leah Lail) and Sam(Patrick Dempsey) and Sammie(Christine Taylor). Art begins to discuss that adultery is "the monogamy denial". He says, "I think that monogamy is not natural. I really don't think it exists. At least not in practice. It turns otherwise honorable people into liars.....people cheat! It happens all the time.That`s why they don't like to talk about it." There's an argument from the three couples saying that he doesn't know what he`s talking about. And the rest of the story it shows you that Art is right.

I`m only discussing one of the couples, Issacc and Claudia because of Hudson's involvement. Issacc cheats on his wife with various women. In the story we see Eve(Shawnee Free-Jones) a young college girl who he has sex with and believes all his lies and Deborah(HUDSON LEICK) who he and Joel meet at a hockey game. Claudia also cheats on Issacc with Art. She tells him that she and her husband have an agreement on to never ask questions. So when Art meets Issac he gets nervous around him and Issacc asks Claudia why he got psycho, all she does is smile. So he asks her did she sleep with him and she said remember our agreement, so he stops and thinks about his affairs and doesn`t say boo. And they start to play wrestle in bed.

In Hudson's performance she plays Deborah. At the hockey game Issac says to Joel that women can't seperate the difference between sex and love. To them it's all the same, but men can seperate the difference. So Deborah, Hudson's character, overhears it and says that it isn`t true. A woman can have a one night stand and forget about it. Also, she tells him that every female he had sex with isn't sitting at home by the phone waiting for him to call. But infact Eve is doing that. Here it shows you that some women are like what Issac said and some women are like what Deborah said. Hence they are both right and both wrong. The next scene of Hudson is that she is in bed with Issac(her first nude scene to best of my knowledge). Issac is trying to feed her the lines he fed Eve and Deborah doesn`t buy it. Deborah tells him to shut up and go back to the sexual intercourse.

Overall the movie tried to give a reasonable explaination of what happens in marriages, but it doesn't tell enough. What it does tell is true in some relationships, if not all. The movie to a certain extent can be used as a documentary on the way people interact in mid to late 1990`s. What it lacks is that it isn't diverse enough and it was too positive. At the end there are some marriages that end like that, but many more are different.

Something About Infidelity
This movie was very entertaining. A writer inplants the obsessions of infidelity to three seemingly happy couples. It leads onto a road of self havock. A great representation of the taboo thirsts in all of us. Some characters you love, some you hate, some you sympathize with others just disgust you. Even big man Ron Jeremy make a funny cameo while at the "office", if you know what I mean. Only disappointments were the full screen format and the mono sound. Overall a good flick. ... Read more

Reviews (6)

It depends on you
It depends on you; it depends on your experiences.

This movie might be good for you; you can find something very similar to you...

If you have ever been one of this guy, or if you have ever spent a night like this.

I like it very much.

not great but kept me entertained
I saw this movie when it premired on starz. That's right it's a starz original. It has it's bad parts (the cop) it's good parts (golf course and psycholigist) and slow parts but through it all it kept me entertained even though it was uneven. It is a pretty good plot that took some bad turns. Weber was funny though.

Excellent movie!!
Yet the beginning of this movie does seem to sort of remind you of Swingers, the movie turns itself around. It turns out to be a great movie in total. I do have to say that if you like this movie, then you will also like Swingers. This movie really deserved more credit.

Bizarre yet alluring...
I didn't expect to watch the entire film - but I identified with the characters. It is very much a male-bonding sort of thing - but that's not always a bad thing. If you're a male in your late 20s or early-mid 30s, you'll find yourself enthralled with some of the decisions these guys make throughout the film.

The writing and acting is solid. It takes some peculiar twists and turns because it doesn't have a plot. Like the typical male-bonding film, LLL meanders through different parties, different friends, different drugs, all during the course of one evening. But you never know where it'll take you next. Those who live in LA will identify with the film even more than the average joe, since it goes in and out of locales we angelinos frequent day in/day out. Check it out - it's worth 90 minutes of your time, especially if you live in LA.

Hey, this was pretty good
For a straight to video comedy with a box that spoofs Swingers,this movie was pretty funny... this movie had me laughing all the waythrough... even though the plot was thin, and the outcome pretty obvious... The movie had a lot of good drinking and party scenes, and it's heavy on drugs humor--so if that's not your thing, maybe you should pass it up. Fortunately for me, I like that kind of stuff. Nothing new, but not unbearable. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Dreadful film brought to us by Roger Corman.
"Body Waves" is a 1992 movie that comes across as an '80s leftover. Rick is a young man who tries to be an entrepreneur. Him and his buddy buy cases and cases of suntan lotion. They try and sell the lotion at the beach but nobody's buying. Rick stumbles across a trio of nerds who decide that they will pay him a bunch of money if he teaches them how to be desirable to the opposite sex. You can see where this is going, right?

It's yet another film whose sole purpose is to show several topless women. Now, there's nothing wrong with topless women...it's just that a full-length movie needs a little more than that to stay interesting. "V.I.P." fans will be interested to know that this was the first movie role for Leah Lail (the blonde computer whiz). No...you don't get to see her topless, but you do get to see that she has decent acting talent.

"Body Waves" is completely insulting to anyone over the age of 12. It's simply a rehash of about a hundred lame comedies from the '80s. Wave goodbye to this one. ... Read more