A group of misfit slackers battle a group of egotistical snobs for snowboarding rights to a ski mountain.A group of misfit slackers battle a group of egotistical snobs for snowboarding rights to a ski mountain.A group of misfit slackers battle a group of egotistical snobs for snowboarding rights to a ski mountain.
- Casey
- (as Carmen Nicole)
- Gash
- (as Maïté Schwartz)
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This film is billed as starring Traci Lords, she's not that bad of an actress, but her lines aren't funny and SHE'S NOT THE STAR
The acting is some of the most god-awful I've ever seen, except for Lords, the girl who plays Casey, and maybe the Colonel-who seems oddly out of place. I can't imagine why a retired military Colonel would want to start a SNOWBOARDING ACADEMY. Do those even exist?
The budget would've been better spent coaxing these women into doing a full length porn feature.
"Freddy Got Fingered" currently has a 3.5 score, "Frostbite" has a 2.7. I'm baffled these two movies are within a 1.0 to each other, FGF is "The Godfather" compared to this garbage.
1/10 stars
The only thing that salvages the comedy for this movie is the character humor, with the blind man providing some rehashed, but seldom used setups, and the black bar owner providing the formulaic "street" or "hood" humor.
OK, forget the jokes, there has to be some killer snowboarding shots since this was a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, there was only 4 seconds of backdrop action that might be inspiring. The rest was all "B" grade tricks or worse. The big moment, where the main character rides "the goat", a man-killer ski run, did provide one shot where a small avalanche eats the stuntman. This was the best of the boarding in this movie. Any serious snowboarding fan will be disappointed with the quality of the stunts in the movie.
As for the technical aspects of the movie, the soundtrack was average, which surprises, as those snowboarding documentaries are regularly filled with quality tunes. You can catch a lot of editing mistakes and even though it was shot on a ski mountain, the majority of "scenery" shots failed to convey any sense of true size.
Overall, it MIGHT be worth watching if you have managed to turn your brain completely off and you like silicon breasts. Even then, you wont remember a thing from this one two days later.
Snowboarding is still waiting for it's definitive comedy, you'd do better to watch a snowboarding documentary for sure.
The plot is pathetic, the blind guy is just is a joke, and not a funny one. His antics are so forced and predictable. He trips over stuff and you see him bracing for the fall. He needs to work on his physical comedy.
Most of Frostbite's nudity comes from a hot tub scene that looks like it was shot months later and inserted in to get a distributor. And the nudity is not worth it.
NamoiBucks; it's just a matter of time before Starbucks sues over that. Not even funny. As Billy arrives in town for the first time they come across Namoi Bucks, He comments "Wow they have these everywhere." This leads you to believe it's a parody on Starbucks, but surprise, behind the counter of this location is Namoi herself. Apparently she loves coffee so much that the owner of this huge chain decided to work in a tiny cold town.
The only thing this movie has going for it is the Warren Miller snowboarding footage. Yep this is all Warren's stuff, so if you want to see great action, get a Warren miller flick. Leave Frostbite alone.
There is nothing good about this movie. There is no reason to rent it or buy it, and if a friend offers to loan you a copy for free. Hit him and end the friendship.
Did you know
- TriviaCasting happened to be held at the Beverly Hills offices of Maverick, the company co-founded by Madonna. As a result, literally hundreds of people showed up for the casting call even though Madonna had nothing whatsoever to do with the film.
- Quotes
Billy Wagstaff: [bumps into a man on the street] Oh!
Blind Danny Temples: Fucking asshole!
Billy Wagstaff: Look, I'm sorry you hit the ground, but maybe you should have been watching were you're going.
Blind Danny Temples: "Watch where I'm going." Well, I would love to watch where I'm going. The only problem with that is... I'M FUCKING BLIND! I'M BLIND!
Billy Wagstaff: Oh, sweet jesus, I didn't know.
Blind Danny Temples: Hey, you must be blind to. I'm yelling at another blind guy. That's horrible! You wanna touch faces and see what we look like?
Billy Wagstaff: The thing is I'm not... blind.
Blind Danny Temples: Well... joke's on me. I that case... FUCK YOU!
- Crazy creditsOuttakes are shown before the credits.
- ConnectionsReferences Le choc des mondes (1951)
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $2,400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1