Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

artfarfle Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)This is a fun but not great, funny but not hilarious comedy from back in the eighties. It's a good example of the raunchy comedy sub genre of comedy that exploded in the 1980's after movies like Animal House (National Lampoon's) were huge box office hits. Sure, it's not a great movie or even a great comedy, but it will make you laugh a couple of times if you're OK with R-rated shenanigans. The acting is actually pretty decent for this type of movie and another reviewer here hit the nail on the head with their "slobs versus snobs" analogy, where we identify with the slobs and want them to beat the snooty rich skiers who think they own the mountain. It's a story you've seen a million times before but it delivers some decent jokes and everything else you would expect from the movie's title and poster (beer, voluptuous ski bunnies, adolescent sex jokes). 60/100.

Bencalhoun Hot Dog The Movie never aspired to win anyone an Oscar. It's an 80's teen triumph flick that does exactly what it promises. It makes you laugh in a big way, makes you stare in wonder at great skiing sequences, blush at the somewhat overly gratuitous love scenes, and blows Borat, Napolean Dynamite, Benchwarmers and Blades of Glory clean out of the water. No the plot isn't exactly complex or original, but let's face it...it's not "Jackass The Movie" either is it ? This is a classic 80's tween audience draw that still works, even after all these years. If you were to edit the the sex scenes down to 10 or so seconds per coupling you could probably re release this with great results among the "Dodge Ball" Crowd. I give this movie a fat 10 out of 10 for being what it's supposed to be: An uproariously irreverent look at competition skiing aimed at a tweenage audience. A movie that STILL strikes a chord with those who were part of that audience back in 1984. A Winner.

benlgutman Hot Dog is one of the best movies ever. If you're on a high-school or college ski team, if you are a fan of the eighties, if you like movies with a formulaic plot to support gratuitous nudity and zany fun (think: Hardbodies; in this case ski-fun), this is a movie for you. For all skiers out there, this is really a must see: "Yah, ze Chinese downhill. It is ze ohnly vay." is a phrase that never goes out of style. Even without the phrase, if you've ever skied a Chinese downhill, you need to know it's origin. Great as a drinking game (so many fun recurring elements to drink to: squirrel's nose cream, nudity, "Ruudy," Dan mixing a drink...) or as an apres ski tonic. If you're uptight or like movies for good acting, plotting, or direction, you can skip it, but if you like fun and skiing... it doesn't get any better. Also educational: learn about the history of freestyle skiing (ballet's gone the way of the dinosaur, but aerials persist in the olympics). This movie was remade in the nineties as a pretentious PG-13 called Aspen Extreme, which is unintentionally funny, but stick with the original. I have seen this movie many times, but I bought it when I found it on eBay so I could watch it over and over again.

madkaugh I guess it is all about expectations. The trailer for Hot Dog ... the Movie was hilarious, a non-stop sequence of extremely funny material. So ... imagine our surprise when Hot Dog was nothing like it's trailer. Oh, all of the material in the trailer was in the movie. In fact, every funny moment in the movie was in the trailer, down to the split nanosecond. In context, most of the material was not as funny, the movie took away from the humor.In fact, it is basically lame softcore porn in a ski context.Comments relating to other reviews: "Tracy N. Smith (Sunny) was a total FOX in this flick." - yes, but she was a total bitch loser. In fact, none of the characters was likable. None."the unedited version is one of the classic lines in a comedy--the Japanese skier (Kamikaze), who doesn't utter one word of English in the whole movie up til this point saying 'Whatta da fukka is a Chinese downhill?'." - classic for being stupidly unfunny? Much of the so-called humor is based on stereotypes. The funniest thing about this line is that it implies that the film maker does not understand that Asia has more than one country and culture. Ha, ha, silly film maker.I may have seen a worse movie, but I don't remember it. It gets a one because IMDb does not have anything lower.The trailer is genuinely funny. Watch it instead and save your other hundred odd minutes.MadKaugh