Ski School

These first Ski School alone is difficult to sit through sober, the cheese factor is absolutely through the roof. I can't imagine any sane person watching both of this and Ski School 2 back to back. I recently watched this in a moment of nostalgia, and realized I had absolutely terrible taste in movies as teen. Even thought this came out at the beginning of the 90's, the stench of the late 80's had not completely died yet. And since the first film was shot in the very tail end of the 1989, you could technically call it an 80's movie. But even that's a hard sell, because that would mean you also consider this to be an actual movie when in reality it is just a brain-cell-destroying debacle of cliche slinging corn ball humor smothered in neon colored cheese.

It's a great movie for everyone who likes comedy. Two groups battle against each other both on and of the mountain. Reid Janssens, one of the leaders of a ski-class (section 1) takes skiing real serious and is sometimes an ego-maniac when it comes to teaching how to ski. The other leader (section 8) is Dave Marshak. The only thing he teaches to his class is partying and that ski-school is not learning how to ski. Reid wants to be King of the Mountain and is willing to take any risk to get rid of Dave. Dave on the other hand is setting up scenes to make section 1 like a couple of fools. The beautiful surroundings and, of course, the pretty women make this movie complete. I bought the video on sale and saw it more then 15 times, I guess. But it's still a great movie!

If Bluto Blurtarsky had ever taken up skiing, this would no doubt be the result.

"Ski School" is about as close to the "Animal House" spirit as any of AH's subsequent rip-offs ever came close to. Again, the slobs versus the snobs, only this time on the ski slope.

Cameron, as leader of the slobs, makes a jovial wit as a hybrid between a Delta pledge and a champion (or in this case, lucky) skier. His partners in crime are also as crass as they come: beer-drinking, food-gorging, leering, sexist and eternally adolescent. But in a movie like this, those are considered positive qualities.

The women are all beautiful and, par for the course in a movie like this, mostly naked. But they are also given personalities, character traits and allowed to make their own decisions. That's something most guys like this are probably unused to and, therefore, find attractive. Lucky guys.

The skiing scenes are quite professional and exciting. And a surprising amount of the gags here succeed. There's even a few minutes where the origins of the lambada, monogamy in wolves and the creative uses for video equipment are dwelled on at length. Funny stuff.

If any of you think the spirit of "Animal House" is long gone from today's straight-to-video slob comedies, rent "Ski School" and breathe a sigh of relief.

The tradition lives on.

Six stars. Plus one for Cameron's considerable contributions. And a half star for the lambada...that's the forbidden dance, you know.

I was just browsing my friend's movie collection and came across "Ski School". I almost put it down without even saying anything because I thought it was gonna be a dumb movie about skiing competitions, but I asked him about it and he said "It's funny, and it's got naked women in it." As SOON as I heard that, I shoved it in. To my surprise, it was a pretty good movie. As many have said, it's a very quotable movie: "In order to be the best, you must lose your mind!" -- "Welcome to my kingdom, I will bed you all before the night is through!" -- "You, get beer! You, get...beer! You, get...laid!" -- and many, many others. With a combination of non-stop jokes, partying, naked women, and skiing, this is definitely the perfect comedy for guys.

And also to my pleasant surprise, it has an awesome soundtrack -- they play 2 songs from one of my favorite bands, Lock Up, which is guitarist Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine's old band -- "Punch Drunk" and "Half Man, Half Beast". If you haven't seen this movie, you MUST! It deserves the publicity. 10/10 for entertainment value.

Ski School takes it's partying seriously!

Perhaps the third best "Beer" movie ever behind "Strange Brew" and "Beerfest". It's not a ski movie - it's a beer movie:)

"its not how far you go....but how go you far." Section 8 won't quit until they've drank every case on the mountain. There's a nice little drama piece when a beer spills....and the nerds versus Jocks thing works nicely....this has got to be scored higher....I think I'm gonna start a petition for a higher SKi School score. This isn't rocket science...and there won't be any academy awards(although Cameron is GENUINELY funny here)..... If you want a FUNNY movie about beerests...this is it. Grab a case of High Life and this movie off the shelf and it's twenty bucks well spent. 57/100

You'll like it if you liked: Beerfest, Hot Dog:The Movie, Strange Brew, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Up the Creek.