Ski Patrol (1990)
3/10
Woof!
9 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Rich Correll was Richard Rickover on Leave It to Beaver and helped Harold Lloyd preserve his film as a teen, a role he still works on. He's directed tons of TV, like a hundred episodes of Hanna Montana. He also produced the Police Squad! TV series and worked with Police Academy's Paul Maslansky to make this somewhat forgotten 1990 teen comedy.

Ray Walston and Martin Mull are the grown-up good and bad guys in this story of a ski lodge being sold to make a mall, because in 1990 malls and avarice were things, not that they aren't things right now.

George Lopez and Paul Feig - yes, the very same man who would make Freaks and Geeks and less famously, the 2016 Ghostbusters - make early appearances.

This was released the same year as Ski School, which got a sequel, while this movie had none of its planned follow-ups.

There's a wacky guy who has multiple faces thanks to a mask that allows him to continually talk to himself. That's pretty much the highlight of this film. I'd like to say that these are a genre in and out of themselves, but seeing as how this is posted during a week of Police Academy-ripoffs, I can tell you that they are basically beach movies, which are the same thing as Porky's movies, which are the same thing as Meatballs ripoffs, which are also all really Animal House ripoffs.

I still watch every single one of them.
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