OK, I'm a sucker for this type of film. I know it's something we have all seen a million times, but, darn it - we NEED this type of movie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah…the story line's predictable: idyllic local winter ski haven (Bull Mountain) is under threat by a big-business tycoon's (Lee Majors) plans for turning it into a high rollers' resort town. And, yeah, yeah, yeah…the subplot is equally original: boy loses girl, boy wants girl back, girl has fiancé, boy must go through trials and tribulations to win girl back, etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseum. Add a few crass scenarios, a big-breasted beauty (Victoria Silvstedt),beer and you've got yourself another boring teen-sex comedy. Right? Not so fast, partner.

Out Cold joins the ranks of other great teen comedies (Animal House, Better Off Dead, Caddyshack, and the hundreds of others) in its magical ability to stop time – if just for a moment. Like its predecessors, Out Cold captures that youthful time when friends surround us, we are having the time of our lives and the party never seems like it is going to end. Those are our `rites of passage' years - generally, between the ages of 16-25 - nine very short years.

Out Cold takes place in the fictional tiny-town of Bull Mountain, Colorado - elevation 10,000 feet – a winter wonderland of snow, skiing and snowboarding. A place where there's always fluffy powder to plow through and a hilarious friend is at every corner you turn. There's always the local pub to chill in after a hard day of playing – the characters in these movies all have jobs but no one seems to work. Loneliness is not an option. That's what makes this movie (these movies) great.

Out Cold isn't just about gross-out gags with guys running around trying to get laid, it's about the escapism that these films offer. Even if you've never experienced the perfect winter or summer vacation – even if you've never gone to that ivy-league school where no student has homework – even if you've only dreamt about spending time at exotic locales with fun in the sun/snow – this is the reason why we NEED this type of movie. If only for ninety minutes, these movies offer a fantasy or nice remembrances of times gone by (or, to come.)

For all of you naysayers out there who pooh-pooh this film on the account of its wonderfully juvenile content, I say, `Go see Harry Potter, you bombastic moralist and leave me alone!'

Out Cold is another film that has been made for the supposed crowd of teens who can't get into a rated R movie but can see this PG-13 "clean cut" of teens drinking and partying and cursing just enough to pass it on the mpaa sheet. It has a fair concept but it is made worse by it's restrictions to go to where it could've gone. It's plot has a group of partying misfits in an Alaskan ski town who want to stop a corporate guy from taking over their resort and town. Very stupid comedy offers up a couple of good gags and jokes, but not enough to make up it's flaws and certainly not enough to make it reccomendable.

And one more note (from a guy's perspective): what is the point of having Victoria Silvstedt in a PG-13 movie when she does so much to try and make it a R movie (the hot tub sequence for example)? Oh well as usual. C-

... Except there's no pleasure involved and I'd feel kind of guilty not warning you this is a very unfunny comedy

I guess the producers were trying to dig into the market of the American Pie demographics or possibly of the SCARY MOVIE fans and in many ways it does seem to try to emulate the near the knuckle humour of these film series except at the last moment it pulls back . How many times watching this movie do you feel there's going to be a gross out punchline then at the very last moment it's cancelled ? This gives the whole film a very bizarre feel

There's a vague plot involved with a property land developer trying to buy a snowboard resort but at no time does this feel cohesive to the screenplay in anyway because thge screenplay seems more concerned at trying to fit as many predictable ,juveniule , unfunny gags as it can within the running time . It also says something when the two most famous cast members are Lee Majors and Victoria Silvstedt

OUT COLD gave my funny bone frost bite