Wild Wild Winter (1966) User Reviews

Goofy but kinda funny 1960's stuff

[KHawley-2 · 6/10 · 23 December 2000]

I'm pretty confident this wasn't an Oscar contender in it's day, but it was actually kind of funny in a retro sort of way. College students? Most of the guys in this movie look old enough to be parents of college students. Sit back, don't expect too much, and stay tuned for the bear at the end of the movie.

Fun on the ski slopes.

[michaelRokeefe · 3/10 · 27 December 2000]

Most of the male population at a college with ski slopes needs the help of a surf bum to defrost the Dean's secretary. The secretary has the female students keenly aware that most boys want only one thing from them. If the secretary can be made to appear to be 'easy', maybe; just maybe, the girls will follow.

Music provided by The Beau Brummels, The Astronauts, Dick & DeeDee and Jay & The Americans. These musical interludes may be the only redeeming scenes in the movie.

The cast includes: Gary Clarke, Chris Noel, Steve Franken and Les Brown, Jr.

Music is good, but the plot has melted.

[mark.waltz · 3/10 · 2 May 2022]

Gary Clarke is the "Big Man" on the campus of a college major Lee in debt, but he's in a slouch because the head of the female fraternity has manipulated the other girl not to date while they're in school. Clarke is discovered having gone out with practically every girl in the fraternity so they seek revenge, and eventually he ends up in the mountains and president of the ski club which is upsetting to the nebbish member of the team who insist that Clarke can't ski. This is a silly but harmless musical with a very weak storyline yet a few fun but not really memorable musical numbers, popping in and out of the weak comedy focusing on the Battle of the Sexes. Cliches are abound here with most of the characters weakly written, and the comedy forced with annoying voices coming out of the Moor cartoonish of the characters. This seems to be one of the college age teen musicals that helped kill that genre.