Despite Shannon Tweed's plastic tits (although, did they have silicone implants back then?) and some very bad singing (and I don't mean Duran Duran - which was awesome!) this is a very fun and strangely honest film. What little I've seen since has been nothing but toned down Hollywood pap for the family market.
#Hotdog hot shot movie
Which is also why no one has come close to making as good a ski movie as Hot Dog. It captures a brief moment in time just before Aids and the war on drugs would make everyone very nervous about who they are and what values they espouse. Hot dog is about the joys of hedonism and self assertion, plain and simple. It has more than its share of titillation, but it is not coldly calculated soft-porn trash ala "Hardbodies." Hot Dog is more like Caddyshack but with ski stunts instead of star power.
It does not fit into the 80's scheme of things. Unabashedly sexual, friendly, self-absorbed but not self-conscious, Hot Dog is absolutely uncaring of the way the world takes it. This film actually seems more like a 70's flick than an 80's flick. I hated Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King (the Two Towers was excellent, this one just did not know when to end and had nothing new to give). And just so I don't seem like a simpering love-it-all. Yancey: Hot dogs can be made with different types of meat, and if you want to know what’s in a hot dog, you just need to look at the ingredient statement. And I also sincerely love Hot Dog the movie. In response to whoever wrote something like "if you like Chocolat and the Piano, you're not going to like this." I loved Chocolat. With the possible exception of Cusack's Better Off Dead (which only includes a bit of skiing).