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My friend Todd Gilchrist interviewed Judd Apatow to promote The Cable Guy Blu-Ray, and...

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Are there any other movies of yours that you would like to revisit to give audiences the opportunity to connect or reconnect with it?

I just said to Stiller yesterday, our next commentary is on Heavyweights. Heavyweights was a movie that Steven Brill directed that me and Steve wrote together. Ben Stiller was the bad guy, and it was about a summer camp for overweight kids and he is the abusive owner. It was definitely a schizophrenic movie because it felt on one hand like a classic Disney movie, and then it got really weird, dark and hilarious. And that's become a little bit of cult movie as well. There was a funny thing on Twitter the other day where everyone started tweeting quotes from it, and then Aaron Rogers of the Green Bay Packers tweeted a quote from Heavyweights, and Ben and I got very excited. So maybe we can get that out one day; there were a lot of extended versions of those scenes where Ben went on these mad improvisations with that character, which I would love for people to see.
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Ben Stiller was hilarious in that movie. I don't remember anything else about the movie except his insane character. It's probably his funniest role after Zoolander.

Nice job on the Cable Guy review. You sold me on it.
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I swear Ben Stiller's acting in Heavyweights and Dodgeball is identical. The characters are pretty much interchangeable.
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Re: Heavyweights Special Edition

Originally Posted by losingmymind
i swear ben stiller's acting in heavyweights and dodgeball is identical. The characters are pretty much interchangeable.
qft.
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I would kill for a Heavyweights Blu-ray
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awesome!
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"Attention campers. Lunch has been cancelled due to lack of hustle. Deal with it"

love this movie. went over to imdb to look it up and the fat kid that played Gerry looks a little different now.




he must be on phase 17.
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Unexpected (which is good) and I would definitely be interested.
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Re: Heavyweights Special Edition

Originally Posted by LosingMyMind
I swear Ben Stiller's acting in Heavyweights and Dodgeball is identical. The characters are pretty much interchangeable.
I always assumed they were. Simply a different name.

Man, Heavyweights was good.
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own the dvd but would double dip for a SE

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