Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
skipodcast
I love 90s ski movies, they are so funny. I watched tons of them recently, Ski School, Downhill Racer, Aspen Extreme: all of them very much recommended. These days many people opt to watch ski lessons on mobile phones: iSkiSchool.com web site and iPhone apps instead of Ski School the movies, but I still enjoy watching them. The characters are naive in a way, but the whole concept of life in a ski town brings back the atmosphere of fun. I like Ski School because the true life of ski instructors is nothing like pictured in the movie, but it still makes you laugh. That's what counts, I will probably give it another couple of years before I watch it again, but I will watch it!
SanFernandoCurt
There are great tragedies of our time. 9/11. Darfur. All of the dozens of blood-drenched conflicts raging globally at any given time. Even... the death of Barbaro.And then there's the fact that this movie rated a sequel. Almost too horrifying to contemplate, but true. "Ski School 2" reunited the cast of this stinker.Why, Lord? Why? Imagine being locked in a tiny closet with a loud, drunken, sweating fat man convinced he's God's gift to comedy, that anything he says is funny. And farts? A laugh riot! If you can picture this ... save your money... you've already been drenched in the full, sticky "Ski School" experience.The lead actors - especially Fratkin and Cameron - are absolutely charmless, almost dementedly unfunny. They're as cheery as polio. But the director of "Ski School" apparently thinks they're the funniest, most endearing rascals this side of "Animal House". The women in this film are there simply to look adoringly at these jackasses and drop their bras. That's it. No personality. Barely able to make intelligible vocal sounds. This is how women are imagined by guys spawned at the bottom of high-school hierarchy - the ones who never got dates and could only imagine what "cool" attractiveness could possibly mean..."Ski School" has no temperature. I can't conceive of seeing the sequel. But then, I don't like to imagine falling into a wood chipper, either.
barrydomineyjr
Sure, this flick would never be an Oscar contender, but does anyone really give a flying monkey! The important thing is that you can sit back, view this mayhem, and chuckle yourself into convulsions! Rising star of the slopes John E. Roland (Tom Breznahan, brother of Kevin and star of horror flicks such as The Brain (1988), Twice Dead (1988) and Mirror, Mirror (1990)), winds up in the infamous section 8, a collection of party animals led by Dave Marshack (a very amusing Dean Cameron - why this guy never became famous beats the hell out of me?), who is far more interested in beer and babes - who wouldn't be!!!, rather than being the saint of the slopes. Along with other members Ed (Patrick Labortyeaux, brother of Matthew) and "Fitz" Fitgerald (who equally matches Dean Cameron is the comedy department, who, too, deserves more these days), they set out to claim the mountain and win the annual event when they learn they're being forced out of their accommodation, due to their rowdy nature. Throw in some gorgeous females, most notably the stunning Charlie Spradling (wife of Jason London), and you have all the ingredients of a cult classic. Sadly, only Dean Cameron was to return for the sequel, due to financial difficulties. He, alone, makes the sequel worthwhile. So, settle in one evening, grab some beer and pizzas, then sit back and take in this madcap flick!
tomfrog
What can one say, other than this is an all time cinema classic when it comes to the wide screen hitting the white snow covered sloaps. There had been so many attempts to show what happens on and around the sloaps, but this is one of the few that simply hits it perfectly. It was no fluke, as the sequel to this "Ski School II" is a classic ski comedy as well. Almost every comedy that has been shot since has been trying to copy the humor found in this film. It was not till "Out Cold" was made just recently has there been such a great comedy that has centered around the powdery sloaps.
