It's training to stone the village idiot as an adult

Which is to say, Ben Stiller has already played his Dodgeball: The Movie character once before. There's a Disney live-action film from 1995 called Heavyweights, and it's set in a fat-kid camp owned by Stiller's real, loveable parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, that's bought out by Ben's pumped-up Tony Robbins manque. If you've ever seen the Simpsons episode when Bart and Lisa go to Camp Krusty, you can imagine what happens next. Hilarity, as they say, ensues.