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."

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.

pbhai Previous entries have trashed this movie, as though it aspired to compete at Cannes and fell woefully short. Lighten-up. This movie was clearly made as a low-budget retread of the time honored "underdog overcomes arrogant favorite" and "boy-meets-girl, boy loses girl, boy wins back girl" themes played out on skis. Think Caddyshack with snow. Is it cheesy? You bet. Is it sophomoric? Certainly. Is it more fun than any other non-Warren Miller ski movie? No doubt. If you want a fun, sometimes silly, mindless ski movie, well, go no further. If you want a "highbrow" skiing movie, well, good luck, no one's made one yet. If you want painful, self important preposterousness try watching Aspen Extreme. Now there's a ski movie with delusions of grandeur. At any rate, Hot Dog never takes itself seriously, and if it suffers for it's gratuitous nudity and simple-minded plot, well, it isn't the first, and won't be the last. But it certainly never pretends to be anything other than what it is - campy low-budget fun with some good non-choreographed ski scenes. Disclaimer: If you don't ski, don't love skiing, or never lived in a ski-town for a season, some of this movie's "charm" may be lost on you.

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