a5c7b9f00b In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps. Great, great, cheezy flick. I loved this movie when it first came out, and am still waiting for it on DVD… For the overly critical- and for the love of Pete…the TITLE is ICE PIRATES.. what the HECK do you expect?? It&#39;s called suspension of disbelief. And wait…before you go and say &quot;my belief only goes SO far…&quot;, thats WHAT suspension of disbelief IS- suspension of it ALL…not just &quot;so far&quot;… if you can&#39;t do that, then don&#39;t even bother commenting on movies. The movie is what it is. A slapstick, Mel Brooks-esqe, cheezy space comedy. …Is it less believable than a SECOND all metal, moon-sized space station that flies around the galaxy destroying planets, which in turn itself was destroyed with the help of a tribe of talking teddy bears??? come on… I saw this in college with the rest of the UMass-Boston SF Society gang, and no, this is no classic, nor was meant to be. <br/><br/>Like &quot;Hudson Hawk,&quot; a light-hearted comedy unjustly slagged because moviegoers who&#39;d never seen Moonlighting couldn&#39;t hack Bruce Willis not wading through bullet storms (and because judging from the MSTK-driven bottom 50 on IMDb, pack mentality rules), &quot;Ice Pirates&quot; bombed because most SF fans of the generation couldn&#39;t stand their genre mixed with humor; witness the prompt implosion just a couple years before of the very witty TV show &quot;Quark&quot; after only a handful of eps. <br/><br/>Maybe &quot;Galaxy Quest&quot; – which spoofed the syndrome – and &quot;3rd Rock&quot; changed the paradigm, but twenty years ago, SF fandom still expected to see Shatneresque painfully earnest pomposity in their futuristic dramas. Urich didn&#39;t deliver; his bad. Ice Pirates would no doubt do better now.<br/><br/>7/10.
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