The Ice Pirates

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The amiable sci-fi spoof The Ice Pirates has earned a small but vocal cadre of admirers thanks to its go-for-broke gags and a healthy disrespect for outer space epics like the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises. An atypically goofy Robert Urich stars as the leader of a band of space pirates who kidnap a princess (Mary Crosby of Dallas fame), and then join her quest to find a mythical planet that can solve the universe's water shortage. A completely game (shameless?) cast (which includes Anjelica Huston in fetching leather gear, Ron Perlman, John Matuszak, and fantastic film icon John Carradine) and Stewart (The Philadelphia Experiment) and Raffill's breezy direction help sell the funniest bits (most notably, the notorious "space herpy" scene, and the frantic time-warp finale) and make the more leaden jokes palatable. --Paul Gaita

Description

Spoofy-goofy comedy, otherworldly special effects, spectacular space creatures, bedraggled 'bots, and biceps-ripplnig swashbuckling highlight this cult fave. In the future, as the galaxy's water supply starts to run out, a band of pirates searches for a new water source.

Customer Reviews:

Classic 80's cheese............2007-08-23

This movie made me laugh my a$$ off the whole claw thing is more than enough to want to buy it.

A MUST!.......2007-08-04

I loved this movie as a kid, and am now getting ready to show it to my child. It is so bad that it is ridiculously good. I can't wait to see it again.

I recommend that every one sees it at least once. You will either love it or hate it. It is just silly fun. It gave me new respect for Robert Ulrich. Now i'm getting all giddy thinking about seeing it again.

Great 80s nostalgia.......2007-07-30

I was a teen when I saw this in the theaters. I loved it then and I love it now. Some of the comedy is silly and low-brow, but there are times when the film evokes a hearty belly-laugh (like when Roscoe's afro gets out of hand during the time warp - hilarious!).

The special effects were quite good for their time and the story was very original. The DVD itself, however, is somewhat lackluster. The picture quality is a bit grainy and the only special feature is an overlong and uninteresting trailer, but I guess I'll take what I can get.

Hey, it's fun! What other excuse do you need to see a movie?

Funny and twisted.......2007-07-28

I loved this movie when it came out in VHS and just had to have it when I found it here.
It is so funny, I laugh each time I see it.

A gaggle of sci-fi cliches masquerading as parody.......2007-07-24

I couldn't believe when I saw the average rating for this movie was 4 stars. The movie is godawful! I saw this a few times on cable back in the late 1980s, and I thought it was funny at the time. What a difference 20 years makes. I recently bought it for old time's sake, paid 8 bucks for it, and feel dreadfully ripped off. Singularly lame humor, poor acting, mildly interesting idea wasted in a dopey script. I chuckled a little at the robo-pimp and the space herpes, but that was it. My 16 year old son thought it was supremely stupid & continues to berate me for ever buying it.

What is it about so-called "parodies" that they seem to be held to a lower standard than the films they supposedly lampoon? They still need to be original, funny, or at least generally unboring. This isn't. Don't waste 90 minutes of your life, you'll never get it back. (Too bad this dreck is available on DVD, while the more entertaining homage "Battle Beyond the Stars" with Richard Thomas is not.)

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