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{{quote| ''Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time! COOL RUNNINGS!''}}

 

 

[[The Hero|Derice]] is a sprinter and wants to compete in the 1988 [[Olympic Games]] in athletics. However, his competitor, Junior, trips and brings him down along with Yul Brenner (no, not [[The King and I|that]] [[The Ten Commandments|one]]) during the qualifying sprint race. The officials refuse to rerun the race, dashing the hopes of Derice and other competitors. The only chance he has to go to the Olympics is to compete in the ''Winter'' Olympics in bobsledding. Derice first convinces his friend Sanka to join him, then he finds Irving Blitzer, a former bobsledder himself, who reluctantly agrees coach him and his team. Coach does try to get out of it by showing a film of nothing but sled crashes to a crowd of people trying out, but in the end, all this does is bring Junior and Yul to the team. The rest of the film is about working to overcome their lack of experience, the opposition of the Olympic Committee, the jeering and disbelief of the other teams, the internal struggles within the team, and the cold weather of Canada.

The film is as funny as it is serious, and manages do both well.

 

 

* [[The Alleged Car]]: the bobsled

** Junior gets more self-confident.

** Irv banishes the demons of his past.

* [[Completely Different Title]]: According to [[Blind Idiot Translation|Google Translate]], foreign titles translate as ''Rasta Rockett'', ''The Apprentice Champions'', ''Jamaica Below Zero'', ''Reggae on Ice, ''Running Below Zero'', ''Coconuts on Ice'' and ''Ice Trek''.

* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]

{{quote| '''Derice:''' Sanka... you dead?<br />

'''Sanka:''' Ya, mon. }}

{{quote| '''Junior:''' Seemin' to you nobody likes us?<br />

'''Yul Brynner:''' We're different. People are always afraid of what's different. }}

* [[Dreadlock Rasta]]: Sanka

** Derice as [[The Hero]]

** Junior as [[The Smart Guy]]

* [[Underdogs Never Lose]]: Averted. They transcended the need to win. (And a pretty unique way of being underdogs too)

* [[Up to Eleven]]: When faced with the Calgary winter, Sanka puts on everything in his clothing bag. Then he puts on his clothing bag.

 

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