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Out Cold
Sometimes you snowboard WHILE you drink beer, in a game called "King of the Mountain." See, you have to board down the entire mountain with a full mug in your hand, and whoever has the most beer left at the bottom is the king. Dude! It should be an Olympic sport!
But one day, the high-altitude hijinks come to an abrupt halt for Rick (Jason London) and his slacker buddies, Luke (Zach Galifianakis), Anthony (Flex Alexander) and Pig Pen (Derek Hamilton).
Entrepreneur John Majors (Lee Majors) a stereotypical, cigar-chomping good ole boy who wears a cowboy hat buys the Alaskan resort and turns it into a yuppie haven, complete with sushi and espresso.
This all makes the movie sound far more complicated than it is, however.
It's basically a low-rent remake of the 1984 low-rent teen-age sex comedy "Hot Dog . . . The Movie," but it has snowboarders instead of skiers. 'Cause, like, nobody skis anymore, duh!
It's easy to make fun of this movie for being mindless, sophomoric, predictable, you name it. And it is all those things. But the characters are pretty likable, and the cinematography of snowboarders carving perfect S-turns through pristine snow is gorgeous.
One of Majors' daughters, Anna (Caroline Dhavernas), happens to be a girl Rick met and immediately fell in love with in Cancun. So when she shows up with her dad at the Bull Mountain pub where Rick and his buddies hang out, he gets to quip in a shameless "Casablanca" reference, "Of all the bars in all the ski towns in Alaska, why did she have to walk into this one?"
But Anna is engaged to be married, and everyone knows that Jenny (A.J. Cook), a cute, laid-back snowboarder chick, is a much better match for Rick anyway.
So will Rick and his friends take back the mountain in the name of all that is pure and right in this world? Will Rick and Jenny end up together?
Dude, you know the answers to those questions.
"Out Cold" is rated PG-13 for language, crude and sexual humor and substance abuse. Running time: 89 minutes.
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Cast: Jason London, A.J. Cook, Lee Majors, Zach Galifianakis
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