Movie Bros,
Last week we watched a seminal film in the 80’s canon, HOTDOG the Movie. It was clearly the foundation that later gave us ski school, snowboard academy, and later Out Cold. Having seen all those I think I was expecting more wacky shenanigans. But this was 1982, so lets hear it for clueless rubes, promiscuous coeds, and racist stereotypes! And lets really hear it for an extended ‘ski ballet’ section that really firmly planted the movie in an era foreign to all of us. Also lets end the movie with a no holds barred race that negates all of the rest of the film. But I still enjoyed it, there’s only so many 80’s movies left that I haven’t seen.
We’ve gotten a little weird with the list on skipping weeks. But I think it’s Cote’s turn? I think Chris J picked Hercules (2)? but I could be wrong.
Hot Dog…The Movie is a teen sex comedy ski film released in January 1984. The film went on to gross over $17 million.
The film stars Patrick Houser as Harkin Banks, a young and ambitious freestyle skier from Idaho who is determined to prove himself in a freestyle skiing competition at Squaw Valley. Along the way he teams with a pack of fun-loving incorrigibles who called themselves the "Rat Pack" (whose leader, Dan O'Callahan is played by David Naughton), picks up an Austrian nemesis named Rudi (John Patrick Reger), and enters a love triangle with a pair of blondes, a young woman named Sunny (Tracy N. Smith) and the more mature Sylvia Fonda (played by 1982 Playboy Playmate of the Year Shannon Tweed in just her second major film role). The movie ends with an extended race scene, all of the characters take part in a "Chinese Downhill" race to determine the real champion of the competition.
