SoftInloveRox
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Prismark10
Hot Dog is not really a good movie and does not rival Stripes or Animal House as it is just not funny enough.Patrick Houser plays Harkin Banks, a young and innocent freestyle skier who heads to Squaw valley to take part in a competition. Along the way he picks up a young girl called Sunny who he gets friendly with.At the resort he teams up with some fun loving guys called the 'Rat Pack' led by O'Callahan (David Naughton.) Ace Austrian freestyle skier who Banks admires turns out to be a douche bag but the organisers of the race favour because him as he brings in public interest to the competition.The film has some pranks, zaniness, lots of tits and ass, such as a pointless Miss Wet T shirt contest in a bar.After a disputed result it all ends with a crazy 'Chinese Downhill' as all competitors take part in to find the true champion.It is all rather cheesy and moronic. Shannon Tweed in an early film role is easy on the eye.
estabansmythe
First came "Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance" & "The Battleship Potemkin," and stars like Fairbanks Sr., Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo & Chaplin. Next came sound and with it "Gone With the Wind," "Citizen Kane," & "Ben Hur." Garbo wanted to be alone, but Gable, Tracy, Cooper, Bogart, Wayne & Hepburn didn't. Cinema was evolving. An art form was created. Then came "Hot Dog ... The Movie." David Naughton wasn't Paul Muni, John Garfield or Claude Rains, but he was like-ably talented. And incredible babes Tracy Smith, Shannon Tweed and Crystal Smith weren't in the Myrna Loy / Claudette Colbert / Jean Arthur ranks - but then these gorgeous girls d a lot more, and show a lot more than Myrna, Claudette or Jean ever dreamed. It's good vs. evil plot pitting the hero vs. the bad guy is classic - and, in it's own incredible T&A B movie fest, so is "Hot Dog...The Movie."
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!
ccoppola
Ah yes, my first user comments!**SPOILERS**Here is the spoiler: you might not like this movie!Definitely not for everyone. If mindless puerile fun and tasteless soft porn jokes are your bag, this movie is for you. How I wanted to be "Snakelegs" Banks, schussing his way down the mountain and into Sonny's heart. It is truly a local boy done good tale of leaving the small town and beating the big bad pros at their own game.So, as for the medical school thing, I watched this every night I studied, sometimes 3 times in a row. I stopped counting after 196 viewings and that was in 1992. Something about the poppy tunes and the ebb and flow of sweet skiing scenes intercut with bad acting and stilted dialogue leading into gratuitous R-rated nudity was the perfect white noise to keep me awake and still on track as I learned the names of the cranial nerves or the pathways of mitochondrial energy release.As a movie (it is after all Hot Dog The Movie, not Hot Dog "The Opera" as my favorite user comment reads) there isn't much to offer. It is a good Eurobash and glorification of alcoholism, but the only prize is the skiing scenes. Watch it in your alpine retreat as you rub your slope sore thighs (or better yet have someone rub them for you) and sip your Jaegermeister and Hot chocolate. You might even laugh after the first few shots!
