The mid-'80s witnessed a proliferation of sex comedies sharing names with meat products. But while 1986's Hamburger... The Motion Picture extensively featured its titular meat patties, 1984's Hot Dog... The Movie! centers on the ski style known as hot-dogging rather than the entrails-based treat from which it derives its name. Blandly handsome Patrick Houser stars as a hot-dogging skier who picks up sassy hitchhiker Tracy N. Smith after she valiantly rejects another motorist's offer to exchange a ride for oral gratification. The mismatched pair is greeted at the home of the Freestyle World Cup by a wet, naked, buxom Jacuzzi enthusiast, whose appearance provides an early indication of the event's comically oversexed atmosphere. Houser and Smith soon plunge headfirst into the debauchery of the freestyle-skiing world, encountering wisecracking ex-great David Naughton, a snooty German champion (John Patrick Reger), and a raucous wet-T-shirt contest in which a contestant performs a sensual act on a suggestively placed beer bottle. The evening ends with the John Denver-esque vocal stylings of guitar-strumming folkie Houser, followed by the softcore consummation of his and Smith's fledgling relationship. The following day, Houser meets amorous Shannon Tweed, who soon lives up to her reputation as one of the most consistently unclothed actresses of her generation, and joins Naughton's "Rat Pack" of wacky non-conformists. Houser also learns that Tweed used to be Reger's girlfriend, until someone in Europe "deep-dicked her"—a mystery fellow Reger assumes to be Naughton. That night, Tweed seduces Houser to the New Romantic sounds of Duran Duran, while a spurned Smith falls prey to Regan's Teutonic charms. Clearly, Reger and Houser have the sort of personal conflict that can only be resolved through competitive skiing, and after many skiing montages set to forgettable synth-pop, the German defeats Houser and his Rat Pack in the World Cup. Defiant in defeat, Naughton challenges Reger and his goons to a winner-takes-all game of "Chinese Downhill," with the trophy and prize money at stake. Houser wins, at which point the film ends with a freeze-frame of him clutching the trophy, overcome by the sweet sensation of victory.
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