From Deseret News archives:
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.
Comments
Cast: Jason London, A.J. Cook, Lee Majors, Zach Galifianakis
Find a Movie Theater
- Grizzlies lend forward to AHL team 2:06 a.m.
- Basic Sports Training clinic Saturday 2:06 a.m.
- Tony Finau reaches Big Break finale 2:05 a.m.
- Chicken-lovers dance for free food 2:02 a.m.
- Kansas' Secret Santa gives away $ 1:24 a.m.
- 75 hostages seized in Phillippines 1:24 a.m.
- Gates: US to be Afghan partner 1:23 a.m.
- Al-Qaida claims credit for blasts 1:23 a.m.
- Utah Utes campus briefs 12:39 a.m.
- SUU campus briefs 12:37 a.m.
- Hot Rod behind mic for Lakers
- Max Hall wants to look ahead
- Panel passes BCS playoff bill
- Cougars use depth to beat ASU
- Non-BCS schools not given fair shot
- Crash landing next to I-15
- Psychologist: Mitchell schizophrenic
- Palin signs books, chats with fans
- Snow brings big chill
- Jazz go up against 'the best'
- Letters: Global warming a lie
229 - TCU to play Boise in Fiesta Bowl
206 - BYU football: Bronco weighs in on Hall
184 - Cougars going back to Vegas
150 - Utah/BYU rivalry can be more civil
147 - Andersen apologizes for Jordan hoax
138 - Max Hall wants to look ahead
119 - Revive full food tax?
100 - Yet again, we learn BCS is a big joke
94 - Palin signs books, chats with fans
94
Top 5 Players in minutes played: Utah 1 Fr, 2 Jr, 2 Sr Jr Carlon Brown...
Yep "self righteous" if the rest of us who don't rubber neck left, you would...
Thank you for keeping the team here for all of these years, and for always...
of misery, inconsistency, road games losses and of course, NO TITLE ! Long...
Glad to hear about Matt and the others who demonstrate you can play at a high...
I guess they forgot that God made clothes for Adam and Eve and that was...
and good luck.
There is an inherent problem in any rating system -- it takes into account...
Give Phillips some credit. He was 5/5 in field goals in the YBU game, and the...
Mr. Bender's kind of thinking doesn't even acknowledge that the world is...




You can be the first to comment on this story.