Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)

[JonathanMurphy 0]

'Hot Dog...the movie' is so bad. So much inexplicable nudity. Extensive ski ballet! Evil Germans! That's pretty much it. The plot hangs on those three elements.

[wyldride 285]

"What the fuck a Chinese downhill?!?"

"Kiss my ass, not on this side, not on that side, but right in the middle."

 

This is actually a pretty hilarious movie, even though it's still crap. Watched this so many times as a teen.

[jarrycanada 2483]

I'll have to check this out because it kind of reminds me of better off dead.One of my favorite movies of all time.

 

The trailer anyway,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWkT0g3FrOk

[sillstaw 414]

One of my favorite lines from a Leonard Maltin capsule review was the one he used to end the entry on this movie: "Film is so titled to avoid confusion with HOT DOG... THE OPERA." (Similarly good was his entire BOMB review of the similarly titled "Hamburger... the Motion Picture": "Anyone who watches a movie with this title deserves whatever he gets.")

[wyldride 285]

"I went to Hot Dog at the theatre, expecting a tube of questionable meat preferably served in a small sliced loaf of bread, and instead was served a movie about skiing. I don't understand. If it was a movie, I think the title should have reflected that."

 

Really, though, it's your regular garden variety 80s sex romp, like Porky's or Hard bodies. I doubt seriously you can have more fun having it explained to you, than you would by merely watching it.

 

 

[eigenstates 1]

IMDB: "Harkin Banks is a young Idaho farm kid who is also an ace at skiing. He is headed to the freestyle skiing championships in Squaw Valley, CA along with runaway Sunny. He meets his adversary in the form of Rudy, a self centered European skier who doesn't take a liking to Harkin or his new found friends, The Rat Pack, led by veteran Dan O' Callahan. Harkin has many misadventures with Dan and his buddies, but doesn't lose focus in his attempt to get the World Cup."

This movie has everything. David Naughten- who, I think it's time to admit, Jason stole his whole act from. Skiing, a rags to rags story of triumph, some boobs for Jason, Squirel in a gondola, the Chinese Downhill... tension and fighting. So much to talk about.