similiar to ski school?
is this anything like the ski school movies? those had bad imdb scores too but were ******* awesome.
shareHeck yeah!!! Even though I love Ski School better (awesome soundtrack, more memorable lines, better looking ladies and bizarre, surrealistic humor at some points), this movie IS the big daddy of R rated ski movies - it's got a LOT more nudity (full frontal - female!), coarse language ('F' bombs aplenty here!) and political incorrectness (yon Japanese skier and his 'funny' English!) - let me put it to you this way - if Hot Dog hadn't been a big hit (it made 17 million at the box office back in '84), Ski School might never have been made!
Hot Dog is most definitely a product of the 80's - it's loud, crude and rated R for nudity, sexual situations and language - and with good reason! In the 80s, the studios didn't have to water down the action for the tennyboppers and a PG-13 rating to bring in more audiences - so expect full nudity (female, natch!) , a wet T-shirt contest where the contestants tend to lose their tops, plenty of bed-hopping by bot the hero and the heroine (and not just with each other) in those pre-AIDS times, LOADS of cusswords between combatants (no 'friendly' banter here!) and in true stereotype tradition, a Japanese skier who lets his actions speak louder than words!
Look, Ski School is a product of the '90s (more politically correct, less nudity and the guys are a lot geekier (much less jockish - and better actors!) not to mention a lot nicer to the ladies (Ski School had the heroes rescue two ladies
from some jerks - Ski School 2 had the main lead propose to his girlfriend - the same lady he romanced in part 1!) The action on the slopes takes a back seat to the main storyline of the underdogs vs. the snobs. The action is a lot tamer but the characters are more memorable - I have a feeling that Ski School's Dave Marshak would smoke Hot Dog's Dan O'Callahan both on the ski slopes and in the partying department! The jokes are funnier and there are moments of inspired lunacy by the game cast - THEY are the ones creating the 'party' atmosphere instead of Hot Dog's characters who tend to just react to all the wild and crazy things going on around them.
And BOTH movies have at least one killer song on their soundtracks - Hot Dog has Mitch Ryder's 'When You Were Mine' and Ski School has The Alarm's 'Absolute Reality' - a young and pre-Rage Against the MAchine's Tom Morello also has two songs on the Ski School soundtrack - 'Punch Drunk' and 'Half Man Half Beast'.
It's amazing how every successive Ski comedy has gotten progressively less outrageous and more tamer - from Hot Dog to Ski School to Ski Patrol to the awful Snowboarding Academy (yuck!). Out Cold from 2001, I haven't seen so I can't say how it is.
Look at it this way: If Ski School is your elder buddy who always throws the best parties, has the prettiest ladies around him and pulls off the most outrageous pranks - then Hot Dog is the cool uncle of yours who still hasn't settled down, grown up, gotten a 'regular' job but always excels in whatever he does, drives an expensive car and gets the girl. And no matter how bad the situation is, he wins. All the time.
In short, yes you will most probably like Hot Dog. A lot.