Ski School may have come out way after the teen sex comedy boom and before the wave that American Pie started, and you know, I may be fifty and working in the corporate world and feeling dead inside, but I would leave to join Dave Marshak (Dean Cameron, Rockula, Bad Dreams and, most essentially, Chainsaw from Summer School) and his Section 8 team on the slopes if they'll have me, bad knees and multiple concussions and you know, old.
This movie flows over me like malt liquor at a party. I mean, it's really the plot of every poor kids against rich elites movie ever - it's also the plot of another skiing sex comedy Hot Dog...The Movie - but it works. Of course it works. Movies like these are why instead of speaking up for myself, I just plan long and hilarious revenge scenarios.
Ava Fabian, who is the love interest of our hero, is the kind of impossible robot who only shows up in these movies and marries rock stars. Seriously, the former August 1986 Playboy Playmate of ther Month went from this film and playing Roxy Carmichael in Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael to being involved with Journey's Neil Schon.
Director Damian Lee also made Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe which makes perfect and absolute logical sense. Writer David Mitchell would go on to make the sequel to this movie along with Ski Hard and Shred, which teams Dave England from Jackass with Tom Green.
Two songs on the soundtrack, "Punch Drunk" and "Half Man, Half Beast", are by Lock Up, which is Tom Morello's old band and man, pre-political party Tom Morello is pretty good.
Ski School
1990
Action / Comedy / Sport
Ski School
1990
Action / Comedy / Sport
Keywords: sportsrivalrysnow skiingski resort
Plot summary
Rival ski instructors at a prestigious mountain school compete to save their jobs. The infamous "Section Eight", a popular group of skiing partiers are up against some rich stiffs whose only thought is beating their arch rivals in the annual spring pageant.
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Ski School
It's worth watching once with the appropriate expectations.
Ski School (1990) is a movie I recently rewatched for the first time in a long time on Tubi. The storyline follows two rival ski schools on a ski resort. As new recruits come in a final face-off is waged in the rivalry and a ski competition is scheduled where the winner gets the mountain and the loser never comes back.
This movie is directed by Damian Lee (A Dark Truth) and stars Dean Cameron (Summer School),Tom Bresnahan (The Brain),Darlene Vogel (Back to the Future Part II),Ava Fabian (Dragnet) and Spencer Rochfort (Falling Down).
This has a traditional 80's feel to it in a not as good Porky's and/or Meatballs kind of way. The comedic content was lacking and not overly clever. The storyline is nothing special and contains predictable circumstances that are often cheesy. I will say they did get a beautiful cast of females and there is an infusion of nudity. It was funny how they portrayed how thirsty every female was for guys who ski. The ski clothes were pretty cool.
Overall this is a below average addition to the comedy genre. It's worth watching once with the appropriate expectations. I would score this a 3/10.
broad sex comedy
On Whistler Mountain, Dave Marshak (Dean Cameron) leads a group of misfits including his best friends Fitz Fitzgerald and the sleepy Ed Young in the Section 8 ski school. They face the All Star Ski School led by Reid Janssens in the Annual Spring Pageant. Dave has an eye for his girlfriend Lori. John Roland is the new kid on the slopes. It's a world of pranks and sexual escapades.
It wants to be Animal House on skis. Dean Cameron has a certain charm. It doesn't rise up to that level. It's not even close. There are boobs. There are jokes. It has a sense of innocent fun. It's a very lightweight sex comedy.