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Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals.Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals.Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals.
Tom Bresnahan
- John E. Roland
- (as Tom Breznahan)
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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.
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.
I love this movie and I think dean Cameron doesnt get enough respect for his acting hes funny as hell. I totally agree this is an awesome ski movie but as far as the best Id have to go with HOT DOG. But still a great movie part one and two
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!
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.
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.
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.
Did you know
- TriviaThe character of David Marshack was originally scripted, and played out as David Marshall. However, feeling the name was too bland, Marshall was dubbed over with Marshack; unfortunately, the mouth movements of the other characters do not hide this fact as well as the director would have liked. Nor were the visual cues changed: at just under 1 hour into the film, the place card for David Marshall can be clearly seen on the leader board, just as Marshack slides to a halt beneath it.
- GoofsWhen Section 8's fake film appears on the monitors, all three lines that Erich says are different in the way that they were originally said to Lori as he was being secretly filmed.
- Quotes
Dave Marshak: It's not how far you go, it's how go you far.
- Crazy creditsTom Bresnahan's name is misspelled in the credits as Tom Breznahan.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Ski School 2 (1994)
- SoundtracksThe Right Place
Written by Steve Hunter and Deborah Holland
Performed by Deborah Holland
Published by Deacond Music/Animal Logic Music/Big Biscuit Music (ASCAP)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $18,476
- Gross worldwide
- $18,476
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