Disney Comedy Heavyweights Turns 25: Where Is the Cast Now?

In 1995, back before Kenan Thompson and Judd Apatow were household names, the comedic powerhouses joined forces with a still-on-the-rise Ben Stiller on Heavyweights, a Disney big-screen comedy about youngsters at a “fat camp” and the manic fitness guru who takes over.

Upon its original release, the film wasn’t a hit with critics or moviegoers, earning poor reviews and less than $18 million at the box office. “Heavyweights is really two movies in one, and they don’t mesh,” New York Times critic Stephen Holden observed at the time. “One movie is a no-holds-barred spoof of a Tony Little– or Susan Powter-style fitness merchant, in which maniacal perkiness is equated with uncontrollable rage. The other movie is a conventional family comedy that pokes lighthearted fun at the chubby young campers.”

In the years since its release, however, the film has developed a cult following, with Disney releasing a Blu-ray version of the comedy in 2012, and some critics have looked at it more favorably in recent years. “Today, a comedy featuring the combined prosperous forces of Apatow and Stiller would be a surefire draw at the box office,” PopMatters’ Jeremiah Messengale wrote in 2013. “Despite its flaws, the comicality in Heavyweights does hold up quite well.”

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In honor of the movie’s 25th anniversary on Monday, February 17, scroll down to see where the cast is now.

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