"Hot Dog: The Movie" (1983)

This is why IMDB can be a pile of shit. The license at end of credits is printed at 1983, IMDB has it at 1984.

When White folk ruled the mountains (as they still do) there were boozin’, broads and stupidity. This movie celebrates all of that and adds in German corporate subplot in the hill so of Squaw Valley.

I recall being a child of the 80’s and attempting to rent this multiple times on VHS. Skiing was huge back in those days. Even though I’d recently moved to Cincinnati, it seemed everyone at my elementary school also was yapping about it. Hot tubs and leisurely tit shots are so welcome. This movie is strange, in that…as it’s been parody a gazillion times, this movie is surprisingly serious in tone.

It starts off with a young man from Idaho Harkin (Patrick Houser), who goes to Squaw Valley to win a championship ski competition. He picks up a hitchhiker named Sunny (Tracy N. Smith). They head off into the WASPy world of international skiing. Whatever that means. Harkin meets an aging ski bum Dan played by that “American Werewolf In London” David Naughton. They ban to together to take down a German snob skier named Heinz (Marc Vance).

If you’re into ski montages, this movie is for you. The story is pretty straight forward. A heroes journey with tits. Speaking of which, Shannon Tweed makes a tit-acular presence. Man, this is 1983 and her juggs look like that? Well done, movie makers.

For the most part, this movie is 80’s nonsense. A lot of parties that happened to have a film camera around to capture it. It actually got me thinking about “Back To The Future” where Marty thinks his parents are squares. Then he sees them as teens and realize they’re just as horny and rebellious as he was. I don’t think the teens born to these actors today (assuming the people in the movie had kids a little later in life) have to look far to see what their parents looked like and did. I would torture Tweed’s kids mercilessly about how awesome their mother’s tits were back in the 80’s. In that sense, this is a great movie to remember when we didn’t have politically correct douches.