Movie Review: 'Hot Dog....The Movie'
Pros: Nice views of Squaw Valley and naked actresses Cons: Bad, predictable script. If you came of age - or were the parent of a teenager - between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, you probably remember the romantic-comedy sub-genre known as the "Horny Teens Movies." These were usually low-budget projects that married bare-bones plots centering on sports, cars, or any other male-oriented activity with a story which provided a bevy of hot-looking young women to shed their clothes and grant all kinds of erotic favors to even the nerdiest of the men. Most of these "Horny Teens Movies" were variations of themes explored in such efforts as Private Lessons, Meatballs, Porky's, and My Tutor, in which guys - most of them virgins and labeled by the hot chicks as "nice" or "nerdy" - simply had one goal in mind: to get laid. Written by Mike Marvin and directed by Peter Markle (Bat 21), Hot Dog...The Movie is a...