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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

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.

Farm kid hoping to make it big as a skier picks up a feisty hitchhiker on his way to the big ski tournament in Squaw Valley, California. The two begin to fall for each other but are driven apart by a cocky German ski champion and a beautiful blonde. Better than it has any right being, it's an 80s movie that includes many sex comedy clichés but actually takes the time to invest in its main characters a little bit. Of course there's a lot of cheese and some nudity, most notably from former Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed. The slower parts work better than the comedy. The skiing stuff did little for me but the scenery is certainly attractive. Of the cast, lead Patrick Houser is outshined at every turn, whether it be by cutie Tracy Smith or by David Naughton, who effortlessly steals every scene he's in. He's really better than this type of movie but I guess he had bills to pay. If you're looking for a really outrageous and offensive teen comedy, this isn't it. There are far better and funnier examples of those types of movies out there. This one does have something going for it that makes it stand out from other movies of its type. Unfortunately, after the decent first half-hour, things go downhill and it becomes more of a traditional lame comedy.

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

I liked the movie from the 80s on. It's true that many of the activities portrayed are not appropriate today. Of course a lot of people hate this movie, but they generally hate this genre of movie, anyway, right?! I was especially moved by the sex scene with Harkin (Patrick Houser) and Sunny (Tracy N. Smith), the guitar serenade (written by folkie John Stewart), the hot tub scene with Shannon Tweed, and the gondola scene. It's very rare for such sex scenes to move me in other like movies of that period: I think that director Peter Markle handled the sex scenes very tastefully.... The skiing scenes were also really well done, also, but one often may see that the stunt skiers are different from the actors (duh!).It's true, also, that some of the plot contains dumb male humor. However: I remember the names of the actors that I liked in the key romantic and sex scenes, and some others, so the movie did move me....