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.

chadtingley "Hot Dog...the movie" is very simply really bad and one of the best ski movies out there. Tons of gratuitous sex with tons of great skiing is what makes this film worth watching. I made my father take me and a friend to this movie for my 16th birthday, I am sure he hated it, but we loved it then and I love it now. I just finished watching it and it is still exactly what I expected. Sex and skiing. Shanon Tweed is, for her third movie, doing what we all expected, showing off her body. Unlike "Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" she strips and shows almost everything. We must remember this can be classified and nothing more that '80's schlock, but really good '80's schlock.Bottom line, if you love the 80's and it's movies, this 1984 classic (ha,ha) will please all true movie fans. If however you are looking for a great film, look somewhere else.

givethedjabreak Sounds like the person above has a thing for David Naughton... how sad. This movie is basically "Porky's & Caddyshack" set in the snowy mountains. This is not the kind of movie you are expecting a plot from, the soundtrack ain't bad. If you like skiing, hot babes, needless nudity, a good laugh, HOT DOG - THE MOVIE is for you! Shannon Tweed is hot... 'nuff said. Great ski sequences of some CRAZY stunts, 80's B-rated t&a throughout.... Rent it or buy it, sit down & take a load off. And if you don't agree with my write up... "you can kiss my a**, not on the right side, not on the left side... but right down the middle (quote taken directly from the movie). CHEERS!

jdm9717 With the possible exception of Cusack's Better Off Dead (which only includes a bit of skiing).In response to whoever wrote something like "if you like Chocolat and the Piano, you're not going to like this." I loved Chocolat. I loved the Piano. And I also sincerely love Hot Dog the movie. And just so I don't seem like a simpering love-it-all. I hated Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King (the Two Towers was excellent, this one just did not know when to end and had nothing new to give). But back to Hot Dog....This film actually seems more like a 70's flick than an 80's flick. Unabashedly sexual, friendly, self-absorbed but not self-conscious, Hot Dog is absolutely uncaring of the way the world takes it. It does not fit into the 80's scheme of things. It has more than its share of titillation, but it is not coldly calculated soft-porn trash ala "Hardbodies." Hot Dog is more like Caddyshack but with ski stunts instead of star power.Hot dog is about the joys of hedonism and self assertion, plain and simple. It captures a brief moment in time just before Aids and the war on drugs would make everyone very nervous about who they are and what values they espouse. Which is also why no one has come close to making as good a ski movie as Hot Dog. What little I've seen since has been nothing but toned down Hollywood pap for the family market. Perhaps it cannot be done.Despite Shannon Tweed's plastic tits (although, did they have silicone implants back then?) and some very bad singing (and I don't mean Duran Duran - which was awesome!) this is a very fun and strangely honest film. Definitely worth checking out.Plus - it did coin the household phrase "Chinese Downhill." Which no one on the slopes I frequented had ever heard of before Hot Dog. How many B-pictures can claim that!