Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to a sleazy land developer, have the staff fired and turn Bull Mountain into 'Yuppieville'.
Even though no one in the film breaks a leg, Out Cold is as lame as it gets.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
29 Nov 2001
rotten:
Basically a low-rent remake of the 1984 low-rent teenage sex comedy Hot Dog ... The Movie.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
5 Dec 2001
rotten:
The result is so derivative, they should've called it Eskimo Pie.
– Bruce Fretts,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Dec 2001
fresh:
Funnier than Woody Allen's last four movies, more exciting than Tarkovski's The Sacrifice, Out Cold will play best if your first legal beer is still far enough into the future to seem a vision of the promised land.
– Don Irvine,
Globe and Mail,
22 Mar 2002
rotten:
As if to justify a serious discussion of this comedy before dissing it, some reviewers have pointed out that it evokes Casablanca.