Out Cold Review
by Jon Popick (jpopick AT sick-boy DOT com)November 21st, 2001
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There isn't much you need to say in order to knock a film that stars Jason London and Lee Majors and is mostly built around Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" - it pretty much does the job for you. Out Cold never once tries to be anything but a 90-minute film about guys intermittently snowboarding and trying to get laid, and in that regard it's somewhat of a success. But the film is, I think, also supposed to be a comedy, an endeavor which fails miserably.
London plays Rick, the ringleader of a group of employees who tend to a snowboarding area in Alaska called Bull Mountain. The town's original owner (Lewis Arquette) has recently died, leaving everything to his boob of a son (Willie Garson), who, in turn, is about to unload the place on a Colorado developer named Majors (played, imaginatively, by Majors). The new boss has big plans - turn Bull Mountain into Snow Nook, a resort for yuppies looking for a trendy place to throw away their cash.
This, of course, doesn't sit too well with Rick and his buddies, who want latte and sashimi flowing through the streets about as much as they want a painful bladder infection. As if that wasn't enough to steer a feature film, Rick's long-lost love (Caroline Dhavernas), who stood him up years ago when he was vacationing in Cancun, turns out to be Majors' daughter, which threatens to disrupt a potential relationship with a townie named Jenny (A.J. Cook, one of those hot Lisbons from The Virgin Suicides).
The humor in Cold isn't the stuff miracles are made of. Poorly written, well-telegraphed gags include Jacuzzi holes and internet chat rooms, and you can see it all coming a mile away. The two funniest scenes, which revolve around setting up a drunken Luke (Zach Galifianakis) in various situations, are all shown in the film's trailer. Really the only highlight here is the unscripted outtakes that run before the closing credits.
1:30 - PG-13 for language, crude and sexual humor, and substance abuse
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