"Ski School" is surely one of the better teen comedies of its genre. This is not saying much, I know: you could watch a hundred of these movies and not laugh even once, so their value as comedies is nil, and despite their designation as "boob comedies", "teen sex flicks", "t'n a fests", whatever you want to call them, they actually tend to be really light on the sex and nudity.
What puts "Ski School" a cut above the average is that it's actually entertaining. It benefits from the charisma of Dean Cameron, a man whose eyebrows you surely remember if you've ever seen him in a movie. It is the old rich kids vs. the party animals set up, with the action taking place on a ski slope. I've seen this before with water skiers (Meatballs 4), white water rafters (Up the Creek), video game arcades (Joysticks (ugh)), diving (Back to School), and, uh, skiing (Hot Dog: The Movie).
In probably all of these movies the heroes battle it out in their respective leisure activity with rich, serious, smarmy guys who seem to always have blonde hair. Do movies associate blondness with money, or just arrogance?
So you see, setting the action on a ski slope was hardly original. What is something different, though, is that the movie actually generates a sense of excitement in the final scenes. You know who's going to win, obviously, but I wasn't bored watching. As a matter of fact, the movie is never boring, and that is enough to elevate it above 99% of teen sex comedies.
What puts "Ski School" a cut above the average is that it's actually entertaining. It benefits from the charisma of Dean Cameron, a man whose eyebrows you surely remember if you've ever seen him in a movie. It is the old rich kids vs. the party animals set up, with the action taking place on a ski slope. I've seen this before with water skiers (Meatballs 4), white water rafters (Up the Creek), video game arcades (Joysticks (ugh)), diving (Back to School), and, uh, skiing (Hot Dog: The Movie).
In probably all of these movies the heroes battle it out in their respective leisure activity with rich, serious, smarmy guys who seem to always have blonde hair. Do movies associate blondness with money, or just arrogance?
So you see, setting the action on a ski slope was hardly original. What is something different, though, is that the movie actually generates a sense of excitement in the final scenes. You know who's going to win, obviously, but I wasn't bored watching. As a matter of fact, the movie is never boring, and that is enough to elevate it above 99% of teen sex comedies.