![]() ![]() Early career viewers will get a kick out of seeing Angelica Huston and Ron Perlman as members of Jason’s pirate crew. Roberts showcases great comic timing as second-in-command Roscoe. Robert Urich and Mary Crosby are perfectly solid as dashing pirate and earnest princess respectively. There’s a generally broad and good humour about the whole film, and the cast play it up quite well. There are certainly a couple of – well, possibly not diamonds in the rough, but perhaps a couple of pretty bits of coloured glass. The smaller part of my love for this film is based around what occasional elements actually work. A large part of my affection stems from seeing it on home video at the age of nine that magical time in one’s life when half of the jokes will fly over one’s head, and all it takes for a science fiction film to be awesome is a few robots and a laser gun shoot-out. #ICE PIRATES MOVIE#The result is a colossal misfire: never funny enough to operate as a proper movie comedy, and not inventive or dramatic enough to work as a serious science fiction adventure.ĭespite its numerous flaws, I am left with a soft spot for The Ice Pirates. Conceived as a cash-in on Star Wars for MGM, it abruptly had its production budget halved and its screenplay rewritten to transform it from straight-faced space fantasy to self-aware comedic parody. Stewart Raffill’s The Ice Pirates is one of the great red-hot messes of 1980s American cinema. After being captured during a raid, the ice pirate Jason (Robert Urich) is unexpectedly freed to help the Princess Karina (Mary Crosby) search for her father – who vanished on the trail of a new source of water. Their monopoly has led to the rise of ‘ice pirates’: swashbuckling thieves who break into the Templars’ transport ships and still their ice cargo from underneath them. In the distant future, all water in the galaxy lies under the control of the Templars of Mithra. ![]()
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