Well despite my blog post where I wept for the
future, and was worried that I was all "B-Movied Out", my fears are now
silenced as I quite happily sat through Ski School 2, and will likely
do so again in the future. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was dumb fun
and that kinda thing + a pizza gets two very enthusiastic thumbs up from
me. It was easy to watch even though I was tired, which led me to the
conclusion that as bad movies go, this one was a good one.
 Our lovable hero from the first film, Dave Marshak (Dean Cameron) gets
a letter in the mail from his ex girlfriend Beth inviting him to her
upcoming nuptials. (Am I the only one who thinks thats insane?) Dave
remembers how awesome Beth was, and decides that despite her wedding
being only days away, that now is the time to rekindle their
relationship. Dave was once the head ski instructor at the mountain,
before he was sacked by Beth's father. At this point it becomes obvious
exactly what Beth will have to say about Dave - that's he's an immature
party guy and she wants someone more serious with some stability. And I
was exactly right. Once Dave manages to get his butt over to the ski
lodge that Beth's father left to her, she pretty much says exactly
that. However, Dave isn't about to give up easily or change his
partying ways, so he sets up camp at his narcoleptic sex god friend
Alex's place and begins to hatch a plan to win Beth back.
 As can be expected, Beth's new fiancee Steve Longwood is a complete
douche bag. He subtlely controls Beth, pretending to help her and makes
everyone elses lives on the mountain a misery - especially Dave's old
friends Alex, batshit-insane Todderbert and the rotund Tomcat (played
by Will Sasso, you know the guy who does the best fucking Kenny Rogers
impersonation on the planet?). Of course, like any clueless woman in
comedy such as this, Beth sees none of Steve's mean streak, and
believes she is marrying the right man. Or does she? Dave's
reappearance seems to have made Beth more than a little confused. Steve
picks up on this immediately and wastes no time in letting Dave know
that he is not a fan. Together with his snotnosed (latently
homosexual?) offsider, he hatches harebrained schemes to get Dave off
the mountain - but little does he know that he is messing with the
scheme-master himself.
It isn't long before Dave and the crew are back to their old tricks,
crashing and spicing up dull parties, prank phone calls and even
getting a party going at the local lesbian bar. Dave spends his time
reminding Beth how much fun they used to have, and she starts to enjoy
herself again too, much to Steve's angerment.
 I'm not exactly sure where to fit her in, so I might as well just go
ahead and mention Lola Schnitzelbach. Lola has joined the Ski
competition on the mountain (another subplot), and will race Beth on
her wedding day. She's a nude painter - and before you go and think
that she paints nude models...you're wrong! Lola paints any old thing,
but in the nude!! Oh I bet you didn't see that coming ho ho! (MY
SIDES!). Anyhow, Lola the nude painter/downhill skier is also a bit of
a tart - but like every woman on the mountain, she would give her
firstborn for a crack at Alex. Once Dave tees that up, Lola agrees to
strip for Steve's bucks party, jumping out of a big cake. The cake is
really big - big enough to hide Alex and Tomcat inside, who have been
entrusted with the job of getting some incriminating photos of Steve
with Lola.
Meanwhile, Dave has canceled Beth's stripper, dons a pair of chaps and
heads off in his place. Beth has a great time, and the two end up in a
deep and meaningful game of Battleship. All is going well over at the
bucks party until Tomcat gets a little over excited trying to peep at
Lola and breaks the cake they are hiding in, exposing himself and Alex.
The party quickly turns into a mess of paint, handcuffs and feathers
and when Steve wanders home to Beth, drunk, disheveled and a complete
mess, she knows that Dave had something to do with it and kicks him
out. With the wedding only a day away, things do not look good for Dave.
 The next morning, Todderbert finds an eviction notice on his front
door, signed by "Steve Longwood, Manager". He takes it to Dave who
finds it suspicious. But when Tomcat returns from buying his groceries
with the news that he overheard Steve mention to his gay friend that he
made a sneaky deal with Beth's Dad to take ownership of the mountain
once he marries Beth, Dave realises that the time has come to pull out
all the stops. He has to stop the wedding at any cost. Of course
hilarity and the obligatory happy ending ensue.
It's odd though, because it both was and wasn't different from Ski
School. Dave Marshak seems to easily blend in with a group of similar
friends as in the first movie, and they are so similar that if you
haven't seen the first film in a long time you might even wonder if
they are the same characters. There's no mention of any of the events
of the first film - just the notion that Dave was once the king of the
mountain featured in this sequel. Patrick Labyorteaux and Stuart
Fratkin are missed though, not to say that Bil Dwyer, Will Sasso and
Doug Copithorne did a bad job though. Overall it was quite enjoyable
and I would watch it again.
Oh yeah, and Alex actually was totally hot.
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