Product Details

• Actors: Jim Varney, Corey Haim, Brigitte Nielsen, Joe Flaherty, Andreas Apergis
• Directors: John Shepphird
• Writers: James Salisko, Rudy Rupak
• Producers: Carole Vaillancourt, Claudio Castravelli, David Gil, Rudy Rupak, Stephen R. Greenwald
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000A2ZUA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,277 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Snowboard Academy" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A wacky free-for-all comedy about the riotous rivalry between snobby skiers and knuckle-dragging snowboarders! Starring Corey Haim (Dream a Little Dream), Jim Varney (Ernest movies), Brigitte Nielsen (Beverly Hills Cop II) and SCTV’s Joe Flaherty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Corey Haim is the only bright spark in a very dull movie., March 28, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snowboard Academy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you're a Corey Haim fan you might enjoy this movie, if you're not, don't bother. This movie has terrible jokes and even more terrible acting. Corey Haim offers little justification for why the movie is so bad. I myself am I big Corey Haim fan, thus the reason I bought this movie. I highly recommmend that you rent this movie before even considering buying it. I didn't do this and now the movie just sits on the shelf never to be watched again.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not even a good bad movie!, March 14, 1999

By	Tihocan "tihocan" (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snowboard Academy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I bought this video to take on a snowboarding trip with some friends. I fully expected it to be bad, but I thought it would be the kind of bad movie where you can still have a good time making fun of how bad it is, like on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000."

I was wrong.

The thing about all those MST3K movies is, they take themselves seriously, so mocking them is worthwhile. This movie doesn't take itself seriously -- it actually has the gall to think it's funny. But it is not. Now, when I say this movie is not funny, I don't mean it appeals only to certain sensibilities and tastes; I mean it is just empirically NOT FUNNY. The dialogue is stilted, the characters are idiots reading their lines, the snowboarding is lame, and the jokes, such as they are, misfire. Example: Varney, applying for a job with ski patrol, is told he will have to "wear two hats," working as both a PR man and also a safety consultant. He replies that he has lots of hats, and demonstrates by putting a sombrero on his head. Ha, ha. Maybe someone like Jim Carrey could breathe life into jokes this moronic, but Varney can't.

After the hat joke (which came only about 15 minutes into the movie) I had had enough, and rewound the tape. My VCR ate it. Normally, that would have angered me, but in this case, I think the VCR was just trying to help.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AWFUL. SIMPLY AWFUL., August 2, 2008

By	N. Walker "nantarctica" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Snowboard Academy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was sure that Dr.Otto was the worst Varney movie ever until I ran into this one. But then I only saw the first ten minutes. It looks like it was made by people wearing blindfolds and drinking warm Red Bull, and paying their seven year old brothers a hundred a week to make up sick teen sex jokes.

This is a good movie to make your kids watch, so they have some idea of what hell might be like.