If there is one thing Hollywood was really lacking in the '90s, it was movies made for little kids that loosely paralleled the holocaust.

Enter Walt Disney Inc., and a young-ish Judd Apatow. They collaborated on Heavyweights, a movie about starving and over-exerting fat children. Let us begin.

The movie follows a young, hot 'n' heavy Gerald Garner, who the audience is supposed to pity. His only malady, aside from his size, is that he misses his bus home on the last day of school. Upon his late arrival, he's greeted by a sort of ambassador for “Camp Hope” — a fat camp. Gerald initially panics, but when he learns of the camp's amenities — go-karts and Jet Skis — he becomes warmer to the idea, which doesn't really matter because his parents are set on shipping him off anyhow. Oh, if they only knew.

Upon his arrival, Gerald and the other fats are dismayed to find out that the camp has been sold and re-staffed by counselors with German accents. The new owner of the camp, “Uncle” Tony Perkis is some rude fitness geek, bent on turning the camp into an infomercial for weight loss videos. If you dislike fat people, this is will be your favorite part of the movie.

The kids are deprived of food, and forced to go on hikes and runs in the rain. Tony and his crew deflate their pool toys, and disassemble the camp's go-karts and Jet Skis. All the kids' possessions are stripped from them.

Eventually, one of the fats mouths off to Tony and is “removed from camp.” The kids have had enough and decide to band together. Not only do they leave Tony to rot in a mineshaft that he accidentally falls into, they dig him out, then tie him up and place him in a makeshift jail with electrified bars. No foolin'.

When the parents come to visit, Tony escapes and is punched out by Gerald's dad. With a move Ric Flair would be proud of, Tony blindsides Gerald's father, then knocks himself out trying to do back flips. Eventually, the kids grow to love the camp and stay there for the summer despite being given the option to go home.

What one might notice, watching this movie in 2010, is that the supporting cast is actually pretty good. Gerald's father is played by Jeffery Tambor of Arrested Development fame, and the nutty-ass Tony Perkis is played by Ben Stiller, in what I believe to be his finest role, if you can believe that. The camp's previous owner is played by Jerry Stiller, and the posse of fats reads like a Who's Who of fat child stars of the mid-90’s. There's Keenan Thompson, who is funnier in this than he's ever been on SNL, and the fat goalie kid from The Mighty Ducks. Even Gerald himself is the other fat kid from the first Mighty Ducks movie.

To me, Heavyweights is more of a social injustice than a children’s movie. With its parallels to the Holocaust (German counselors, please), if this movie inspired even ONE fat kid to raise his hand and inquire, “Why didn't the Jews just tie Hitler up?” in fifth grade history, then Disney should be keelhauled.