Ski Hard

A truly dopey story about a big ski competition sponsored by the sport drink "Jock Pop", which is like Gatorade. Keith Coogan plays the title character, a truly dim witted individual. He competes as an amateur in this race in order to help his friend avoid foreclosure on a business in a part of the world (presumably Alaska or upper Canada) where you have to take a plane to frequent the business. The character, not Mr. Coogan, is so annoying. The lady skier in the film is Staci Keenan, who you'll look at and wonder where you saw her before (I had to check: She was on the television shows "My Two Dada" and "Step By Step"). Now she is grown up and is a pretty lady. The best thing about the film is the scenery, it looks like it was filmed in Whistler, British Columbia. Otherwise, this film is barely good for a chuckle, so its best to avoid, unless you're a fan of ski movies.

I randomly stumbled upon this movie 6 years ago, when working at blockbuster. It was on sale for $1.99, and I really bought it as a joke. This movie will be a tough find but if you get the opportunity to see it, do it.

This movie will never be up for the AFI top 100, but it's a lot of fun. It's has the typical guy meets girl, guy falls for girl under tone. In addition to that it has a comedic edge to it.

It's funny like Super Troopers but the children can watch it. It has the romance of Pretty Woman, but not enough to make men vomit. It's an all around "cool" movie.

This is the first review I've given, I just had to give some love to this movie.

Go Downhill Willie.

Keith Coogan portrays a goofy naive small towner who has an unusual knack for skiing and skiing fast. He heads off to compete in a ski race for a big money prize sponsored by a sports beverage that seems to be intolerable to drink. His competition is made up of Airheads, Egomaniacs, Mamas boys and the like. While this 1995 film is intended to be a comedy it has some accuracy in it. While watching the past three winter Olympics many of the ski racers from both this country and abroad exhibit many of the same traits as do the bizarre characters in this movie. There seems little argument that ski racers are perhaps the most spoiled, least disciplined, biggest whiners of any sport in the world with certainly the poorest sportsmanship qualities. That's why this film which is intended to be a comedy has some accuracy to it when depicting ski racers. If the films Downhill Racer and Dumb and Dumber were to be spliced together this would be the result.

I've seen this movie many years ago. It's very hard to find it in stores or anywhere else. It seems like this movie is not quite a thing to wast time on. But actually this movie is one of the greatest comedies in its genre. And the average off people that voted an 1 point on that movie i think depends on people that haven't seen this movie at all and gave low rating because of the ugly poster of it. If you take a look at the vote statistics, you may also see that there were also the same much people who gave this movie a 10 points. Ski Hard is a crazy movie about some skiers having some fun at a competition. And if you liked the American Pie movies and you like to ski, i promise you will enjoy this movie as well.

We chose to see this DVD in the hopes of cheering us up with a nice comedy, not so. I did not laugh once, I did however mutter in disgust on several occasions. This is the worst movie I have ever seen by far, clichè after clichè not to mention horrible acting by Keith Cogan (Willie Jones) which cannot be described as non other than senseless drivel. So to end my comment on this movie, For the love of god, stay away!!