it’s the early 80’s… you want to make a skiing movie that takes place at club med… you need two buddies… who do you cast? hey! why not jim carrey and alan thicke!? hey! how about making alan thicke a trash-talking skier and jim carrey a naive impressionist looking to “get some?!”

perfect! it’s the perfect movie!

the whole thing starts with some boring stuff involving traveling or something but really heats up when, for no reason, jim carrey breaks out into a spot-on sammy davis, jr. impersonation with a backing band. we later learn that he does impressions because he’s not good at “being himself.” this really hurts his “getting some.”

here’s a list of jim carrey’s impressions:

• sammy davis, jr.
• ?
• steve martin
• ?
• ?
• walter matthau?

alan thicke keeps making fun of an overweight bartender who ends up beating him in a skiing challenge for the final spot in the pro am. it’s mean and weird and unnecessary and SOOOOO alan thicke! the bartender decides to give alan the spot anyway because he was a professional skier and doesn’t need to win a stupid contest.

a little later, brilliantly and out of nowhere, a young woman appears who drags on and on about her cat love for her leathery, older boss. what to do!? i know! get ol’ jimmy to help get his attention. he rattles the ol’ noggin and devises a really weird plan: they’re going to trick the leathery, older boss into thinking she’s being sold to an arab man (i think). the important thing is that it works, and they end up making out in the snow.

all of this takes place in-between five minute musical performances. this is really important because it makes the movie hard to get through. there is literally thirty minutes of movie and thirty minutes of music.

plus, alan thicke and jim carrey don’t really have anything to do with each other, except when alan acknowledges that the guy across the room trying to “get some” is his buddy.

at the one hour mark, during a climactic musical performance, the film abruptly ends. the details were sketchy for me, but i’m pretty sure alan thicke goes on to win the pro am ski tournament (or whatever) and jim carrey has a threesome with two bimbos. anyway, there’s definitely room for a sequel.

my final thought on copper mountain: alan thicke is way too old to be jim carrey’s buddy.