Line #21 YMMV/CoolAsIce


1	* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ice at one point has the price tag still on his hat. This was actually popular in hip-hop circles in the early 90s. It was done to make sure everyone knew [[ConspicuousConsumption how expensive your designer name-brand clothing was]].
2	* AngstWhatAngst: Minutes after being repeatedly threatened by two thugs who kidnapped him from his own home, Tommy is showing off his new haircut to his mother and telling her to "chill."
3	** To a lesser extent, the rest of the family. After all they went through that night, they're all pretty blithe about Kathy deciding to ride off with Johnny minutes after being reunited.
4	* AntiClimaxBoss: Once the bad guys are found at the end, the resulting brawl lasts about 30 seconds.
5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: During the montage where Johnny laments his troubles with Kathy, the number randomly cuts to shots of Kathy's house, complete with interior shots, an empty porch swing, etc., all filled with the same commercial-like quality as the rest of the product.
6	* BileFascination: Its reputation as a major box office flop as well as its unparalleled levels of TotallyRadical has definitely earned it this. And that's to say nothing of its bizarre editing and plot.
7	* DesignatedHero: Johnny, so very much. He introduces himself to his {{Love Interest\|s}} Kathy by jumping over a fence in front of her while she's riding a horse, causing her to fall off and almost injure herself, then flippantly refusing to apologise. He then proceeds to stalk her and play the StalkingIsLove trope painfully straight, coming onto her aggressively and flippantly disregarding her understandable reluctance to be around him ''and'' her father's wishes for him to not be around her. (And then ''[[StrawmanHasAPoint proves him entirely right]]'' by breaking into their home and feeding her an ice cube to wake her up.) ''Somebody'' needs to learn what boundaries are. In fact, if there wasn't a worse villain in the movie that he happened to be able to foil, ''he'' would be the villain of this story. It's made worse by the fact that Music/VanillaIce's acting could be charitably described as [[DullSurprise limited]], which ends up making the whole thing implode around him with his charisma-free performance.
8	* FightSceneFailure: The scene where the crooks capture Kathy's brother. And just wait till Johnny and his crew catch up to the crooks at the climax.
9	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Kathy's little brother Tommy is actually kinda funny, and definitely the funniest character in the movie. Especially when he catches Johnny and Kathy about to do something very illicit.
10	* HamAndCheese: Creator/SydneyLassick as Roscoe, and Dody Goodman as Mae, make the most of it and wind up as two of the most likable characters.
11	* HarsherInHindsight: One could be forgiven for feeling some sympathy for the devil, when you hear Johnny tell Kathy his ideology: "If you ain't true to yourself, you ain't true to nobody. Live your life for someone else, you ain't living." Years separated from his peak of notoriety, Vanilla Ice himself would hold a grudge against SBK Records (now defunct) for making him adopt a more commercial, Music/MCHammer-like image, and even falsifying a biography about him. The resulting damage to his credibility would haunt Vanilla Ice for the rest of his life.
12	* HoYay: The dance moves Ice and a backup dancer perform in the epilogue gets pretty...crotchy. They're in a 69 at one point. No, seriously.
13	* JustHereForGodzilla: If nothing else, the dancing is pretty damn good.
14	* MemeticMolester: [[DesignatedHero Johnny himself]], for playing StalkingIsLove ''extremely'' straight and obsessively pursuing a girl who he almost ''crippled'' in their first meeting. It's not helped by the scene where he wakes her up by [[TrespassingToTalk breaking into her house]] and slipping an ice cube into her mouth while ''standing over her bed.'' And then there's how he dances with her at the local club, which amounts to him grinding on her and even ''straddling'' her. [[{{Squick}} Yeeeeesh.]]
15	* {{Narm}}: In abundance; this flick is up there with ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' for narm-y goodness. But to name a few moments...
16	** The opening dance number, where Ice busts a dope rhyme with the tag still on his hat (this was an [[AluminumChristmasTrees actual trend]] at the time. Needless to say, it did ''not'' age well).
17	** "Where you going?" "Across the street to, uh, [[UnusualEuphemism schling a schlong]]." Even the old lady says "What?" in justified confusion.
18	** "Drop that zero and get with the hero." What's funny is that sounds more like something a villainous JerkJock would say rather than the main character.
19	** During his performance at the local club: "I'm gonna drop some funky lyrics."
20	** Better still, just ''look'' at the crowd. Where the hell are they, Nerdsville?
21	** The scene where Johnny somehow jumps the fence on a motorcycle without any sort of ramp. And ''then'' knocks Kathy off her horse, in a candidate for the worst MeetCute in all of cinema.
22	** The "climactic" fight scene, complete with random sound effects and whiplash editing that turn the bad guys into {{Anticlimax Boss}}es.
23	** The "date" at the construction site where they do little more than dance through a housing structure.
24	** The kidnapping scene.
25	** One of the crooks (the balding one) is so immature and dorky, you have to wonder how he got on ''America's Most Wanted'' to begin with.
26	** "Lookie, lookie, lookie, in Kat's black bookie." Our BadassBiker, everybody.
27	** The threatening phone call the dad has while you hear the music from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' in the background.
28	* RetroactiveRecognition:
29	** The cinematographer for this film? None other than Academy Award winner Creator/JanuszKaminski.
30	** The director of this film? David Kellogg, whose only other film credit is ''Film/InspectorGadget1999''. Especially notable as the film's choppy editing and use of cartoonish sound effects are also present in this project, which he would later disown. He even cast the chubby antagonist in this film as one of the escaped prisoners in ''Inspector Gadget.''
31	** During the "U don't know me at all" clip, One of Kat's friends talking about her relationship problems is played by Creator/KathrynMorris, who would later play the main lead of ''Series/ColdCase''.
32	* SoBadItsGood: This is definitely one for 'Bad Movie Night'.
33	* StrangledByTheRedString: Literally Kathy and Johnny's entire romance. She goes from righteously pissed off at him - after he causes her to fall off a horse, mind you - to chuckling at his patented witticisms in the next scene, and she remains transfixed by him through thick and thin.
34	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously:
35	** One of the odder aspects of this movie. There is almost no humor in it at all (aside from what's unintentional humor). Everyone was taking the ''Music/VanillaIce movie'' way too seriously.
36	** Creator/JanuszKaminski's cinematography is inspired throughout, and it's probably the most consistently praised aspect of the film by critics.
37	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even aside from Ice himself, the fashions, music, and general culture on display makes it an almost flash-frozen time capsule of 1991.
38	* ValuesDissonance: Johnny's courting of Kathy wasn't actually all that acceptable then either, but the fact that these are the actions of the hero says a lot. Nowadays this is nothing but straight up sexual harassment and stalking. The fact that she ends up saying ''yes'' afterward is also not a message that is likely to be encouraged today.
39	* WTHCostumingDepartment: It being a blatant product of the nineties, this was bound to be the case. Special mention goes to practically ''every'' outfit Johnny wears, the ''pièce de résistance'' being this orange/technicolor suit he wears in the DancePartyEnding.

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