The Ice Pirates

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Whoa. "The Ice Pirates" was far more than I bargained for. I knew this was a camp classic that nearly ruined the careers of everyone involved, but in retrospect it's a train wreck that needs to be seen to be believed. That the film lampoons (or attempts to lampoon) multiple famous movies, particularly "Star Wars", is obvious. The gags are generally below the Mel Brooks "Spaceballs" level, but like a train wreck, you can't look away. After an initial bout of robots versus chainmail, we learn that water is now the scarcest commodity in the galaxy, and pirates routinely hijack freighters full of ice. The sets and effects are amazingly cheesy, the screenplay is terrible, and the acting matches perfectly. There's even a princess on a ship and some laser fights. Where have I seen that before?Anyway, my favorite part of the movie is the appearance of John Carradine who is looking even older and grumpier than normal in an aluminum foil jumpsuit with sequins. He is, of course "The Supreme Commander". Despite wanting so badly to be a lighthearted "Star Wars" clone, this really looks more like a badly acted game of "Asteroids" instead. Much like another famous space film, the good guys get taken prisoner, and after a brief "power to the people" subplot that goes nowhere there is a pitiful automated shaving and castration scene that is wholly unnecessary. Because that's obviously subtle and nuanced, it leads into an unbelievable masquerade ball and robotic pimp, which is likewise beyond belief.Because this is a plot composed of numerous tiny subplots, we next get an apparent homage to "Alien" with an egg hatching scene. (This is actually referred to as the "raucous tubeworm" or "space herpes" subplot.) There's a clear "Star Wars" cantina scene knockoff (complete with latex alien picking space mucus from its nose hole), all of which, naturally, leads to a frog woman dragster driver taking the cast to a miniature burro and javelina farm in the desert. There they meet a crotchety time warp survivor and fight bounty hunters in the "Mad Max" part of the movie, while the gopher puppets bring "Caddyshack" to mind.Fearless leader Jason (Robert Urich) is motivated to find the legendary seventh world with its water processing plant (any guesses as to what planet that turns out to be?) After the obligatory unicorn goring, disembodied head John Carradine comes back as a projection (like Leia did) and gives them the coordinates to the seventh world. Make sense so far? This leads to an unpleasant spaceship ride complete with burros and javelinas in an enclosed area, and tawdry romance in the "passion storm". (Gag! Wretch!) There's a predictable climax and happy ending and after going through the time warp and ageing the heroes find the legendary seventh world, which is of course Earth, and prattle on incessantly about how beautiful it is. The end.How this didn't utterly destroy the careers of Robert Urich and Anjelica Huston I will never comprehend but I enjoyed this in a way that was likely not intended. None of the jokes or premises were entertaining, but the entire "everything and the kitchen sink" amalgam made me laugh repeatedly at how ludicrously bad this movie is. It is relentlessly horrible, but it's so bad that it comes full circle to good in spite of itself. If you like bad sci-fi epics, spoofs of dubious quality lampooning many much better movies, or just John Carradine shining in spangled glory, "The Ice Pirates" is a groanfest not to be missed.

Some may say we who love this film are blinded by nostalgia, that its just another B grade sci fi made in the shadow of Star Wars.Id argue compared to the blind fanboism of the star wars cult that ignore the fact A New Hope very much is itself a B grade film that just happened to catch on with the masses, we who love this are the true sci fi connoisseur.This flick has it all. A fine and fun cast with great chemistry and real acting chops. Costumes that span the myriad fashion of human culture with a touch of techno-punk for the sci fi style. Practical effects, maybe not as good as used in star wars, but good luck finding an original version of those not tainted by the cgi face lift. The action scenes are fun, and filled with the classic swashbuckling style we hardly ever get in movies anymore.Even the concept of galactic haves lording their wealth and needed resources over the have nots has only been proven ever truer and more timeless then ever. Its very easy to imagine such a thing on a galactic scale. We see water and resource profiteering all to often in the present day. Water itself can go for an insane amount in places suffering shortages and we here in the U.S. can barely appreciate that( outside of places like Flint, Michigan of course.

The Ice Pirates Stars Robert Urich in this movie along a couple of other 80’s pop stars as well Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman,John MatusZak, this movie is not for children even if it is a PG movie! To watch it contains adult humor and adult content plus indecent content as well! Still remember watching this on a vhs tape in the early 80’s it’s a bounty hunter space pirates movie! The director is Matthew E. Leonetti, directed by Stewart Raffil, and Produced by John Foreman, I now have buy this on a Blu-ray Disc! A++++

This film is still one of my favorite classic comedies of the 80's. I first saw it when it came out in the theaters in '84 when I was a high school senior. I laughed my ass off. I still do. I remember a lot of my friends who had seen it, too, back then would go around saying, "The school has herpes," as a reference to one of our favorite lines in the film. Plus, the end sequence is the best parody of a certain classic sci-fi film and a famous cartoon show (I don't want to name any of it here to avoid spoiling it for anyone who hasn't yet seen it) and had me laughing with tears in my eyes the first time I saw it on the screen.Oh, and another thing — I firmly believe that Matt Groening borrowed the look of the alien in the restroom for the "time-sniffing" aliens that appeared in several episodes of "Futurama".

Schnell geliefert und preislich okay

Réception dans les temps. Très satisfait !

I looked for this for years it’s a great Star Wars rip off . Love it

Trashig, spassig, kitschiges B-Movie das nie versucht mehr zu sein als es ist!Gute Ton und Bildqualität, wenn man das Alter bedenkt.Gute Untertitelung.Extras - Fehlanzeige!

Bien satisfait de mon film merci 🙂