Editing Heavyweights (section)

==Reception==
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 50% based on 10 reviews, with an average score of 5.4/10.<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|1059860-heavyweights|Heavyweights}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>{{cite web | title= ''Heavyweights'' (1995) | url = https://www.metacritic.com/movie/heavyweights | website = [[Metacritic]] | access-date = 21 February 2023}}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade "A−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Cinemascore |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= December 20, 2018 |access-date= August 30, 2019 }}</ref>

According to [[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'', "''Heavyweights'' is really two movies in one, and they don't mesh. One movie is a no-holds-barred spoof of a [[Tony Little]]- or [[Susan Powter]]-style fitness merchant [...] The other movie is a conventional family comedy that pokes lighthearted fun at the chubby young campers."<ref>{{cite news|title= FILM REVIEW; Spoofing the TV Gurus of Fitness|work= [[The New York Times]]|date= February 17, 1995|url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE6DB123DF934A25751C0A963958260|access-date=June 3, 2012|last1= Holden|first1= Stephen}}</ref> In a positive review, [[Hal Hinson]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote, "Make no mistake about it, Disney's 'Heavyweights' is the best movie about calorically challenged pubescent boys at summer camp ever made. Bar none."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hinson |first1=Hal |title='Heavyweights' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/heavyweightspghinson_a0bff9.htm |access-date=18 July 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 17, 1995}}</ref>

In 2012, on the release of the Blu-ray, critic Brian Ordorff gave the film a grade of "B" and wrote: "Time has been kind to the discarded fat camp movie, finding ''Heavyweights'' more digestible these days, after years spent processing the askew sense of humor shared by Apatow and Company."<ref>{{cite web |date= December 12, 2012 |author = Brian Ordorff  |title=Heavyweights Blu-ray |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Heavyweights-Blu-ray/37212/#Review |website= Blu-ray.com }}</ref>

Rapper [[MC Lars]] has stated he took his stage name from the character Lars in ''Heavyweights'', a further example of the film’s cult legacy.<ref>{{cite web |title=MC Lars |url=https://thefump.com/music/artists/mc-lars |website=The FuMP |access-date=May 7, 2025}}</ref>

===Box office===
The film made $17.6&nbsp;million at the box office and was not successful theatrically, though the film has garnered a [[cult following]].<ref name=people/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Massengale|first1=Jeremiah|title=Lighthearted Humor at Fat Camp: Heavyweights|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/166631-lighthearted-humor-at-fat-camp-heavyweights/|website=PopMatters|date=January 2013 |access-date=July 3, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Mendez" />