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Sometimes I'm justifiable in the mood for something that has, essentially, no hope of having any redeeming qualities. "Frostbite", an "outrageous" teen comedy that makes quite an effort on the box cover to side with the fact that it features ex-adult actress Traci Lords. Believably working with zero budget and on the verge of solely amateur actors, the exact replica is hilariously terrible – hugely definitely one of the most uproariously awful cinematic train wrecks I've seen in years.

The peel focuses on one Billy Wagstaff (Adam Grimes), who sits around smoking paunch all age until he gets into the famed Pine Mountain Snowboarding Academy, where he has the incidental to actually draw up something of himself (and sanguinely, change his pattern name from Wagstaff.) When he gets in with child after a dusk of beer and women, he finds himself booted out of the academy and trying to get back in.

Without even adequate plot to fill out 83 minutes, the talkie pads out the running time with sooner weakly filmed snowboarding footage, dumb comedy episodes that do nothing to advance the movie and lengthy credits (even some outtakes.) The humor is incredibly grade high school and idiotic (and offensive, at times – and I'm not one to be indubitably offended) – the town in the picture is called Schitville, for example.

The acting is remarkably bad – Lords is especially funny as a coffee shop owner who shows off her "features" to get extra change antiquated of the customers. The only "known" actor in the film is Phil Morris, who has been brilliant in "Seinfeld" (where he played lawyer Jackie Chiles) and somewhere else. Here, he just looks embarassed. Yes, there is brief female nudity, but no a certain should be struck by to take a seat through this just to see that. Comprehensive, the movie makes previous snowboarding cheese-fests like "Out Cold" and "Zenith Ops" look approve of Oscar material.

The DVD



SOUND

: "Frostbite" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, but that doesn't seem true – the surrounds were never used, as far as I could tell, and the sound quality is very mediocre. The music on the soundtrack sounded muddy and flat – as if it was recorded in someone's basement. Dialogue didn't fare much better, sounding low in the mix and not very well-recorded.

EXTRAS:

4 deleted scenes.

Irreversible Thoughts

: "Frostbite" gets awarded half a leading man just for being one of the worst movies I've seen in ages. It's unintentionally funny in its badness for a while, but then it just turns totally malevolent. Fox's DVD copy offers the movie with helter-skelter as large audio/video quality as could probably be, given the material. Absolutely not recommended, aside from a rental because of those looking for something just terrible to goof on.


Layer Grade

The Dim

1/2 *


DVD Grades

Video 85/B

Audio: 75/C

Extras: 70/C-

DVD Information

Fox Effectively Entertainment

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