History Film / TheIcePirates

''The Ice Pirates'' is a 1984 comedy/science-fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill (of Wilderness Family fame), who co-wrote the screenplay with ''{{Krull}}'' author Stanford Sherman. The movie stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby. Other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, RonPerlman, [[{{Manimal}} Michael D. Roberts]], Bruce Vilanch, JohnCarradine and football great [[Film/TheGoonies John Matuszak]]. It is considered to be a CultClassic by many science fiction and B-movie fans because the movie doesn't really take itself seriously and everybody involved seems to have a great time hamming it up.

* {{Action Girl}}: Maida, the only female pirate in Jason's crew. Though she isn't involved in the fight of the climax (as she's too busy piloting the ship), she uses her laser gun as much as any of the guys throughout the movie, and has a memorable sword duel in the middle of the film, where she decapitates her attacker!
* {{Amazon Brigade}}: All of Wendon's guards are, for some reason, scantily-dressed gladiator women.
* {{Beta Couple}} Maida and Killjoy, two supporting characters who have tension throughout the movie, until they finally kiss at the end.
* {{Big Bad}}: Zorn, leader of the evil Templars
* {{Big Guy}}: Killjoy, the tough thief who Jason and Roscoe meet in prison, and who later joins their crew.
* {{Black Best Friend}}: Roscoe, Jason's best friend and voice of reason, who loves to joke about his own race.
* {{B Movie}}: Is considered this by many critics, despite the fact that it's a comedy and was corny on purpose.
* {{Battle Butler}}: Percy the Robot, who wears a bow-tie and speaks like a gentleman, but can kung-fu chop anyone who threatens the princess.
* {{Bounty Hunter}}: An entire crew of them, who chase after the bounty that Zorn places on Jason's head (in a scene that spoofs MadMax).
* {{Bullet Time}}: Inverted in the climax.
* {{The Captain}}: Jason
* {{Cool Car}}: The desert truck driven by the Bounty Hunters, in the scene that spoofs MadMax. Imagine a monster-car, with a pirate ship's helm for a steering wheel, and a horned alien skull adorning the front.
* {{Cool And Unusual Punishment}}: The castration machine scene, which could qualify as either a CrowningMomentOfFunny or horror (if you're male).
* {{Dark Is Not Evil}}: Buford, the robot who Roscoe builds and paints black, because "I wanted him to be perfect!"
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Maida, who treats Killjoy's flirtations, Jason's rash decisions, and Wendon's nonstop talking all with equal disdain.

* {{Earth That Was}}: The Seventh World, a paradise planet that still has a water cycle, rumored to exist at the center of the galaxy. Reaching this planet becomes the ultimate goal of the protagonists.
* {{The Eighties}}: A trippy soundtrack filled with keyboard music and echoing drums? Check. Laughably dated CGI laser beams? Check. Glittering dresses and leotards that would make the creators of {{Labyrinth}} jealous? Check-a-roo!
* {{The Empire}}: The Templars, the greedy aristocrats who control all of the water in the galaxy. However, it is made clear that not all aristocrats side with the Templars; Karina and her father both wanted what was best for the whole galaxy, and are either shown or told to have been treating commoners and even criminals far more kindly than the evil Templars.
* {{Everythings Better With Princesses}}: Princess Karina, who is a clear nod to Princess Leia of {{Star Wars}} (she's a beautiful brunette who fights an evil empire, and has a SlapSlapKiss romance with a pirate).
* {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}: It's about pirates who steal ice.
* [[spoiler: ExpressDelivery / PlotRelevantAgeUp: Karina gives birth ''and'' raises her kid while in the time-warping zone, allowing the son to join the fight as a young man and save the rapidly-aging heroes.]]
* {{Fate Worse Than Death}}: Zorn promises this to Jason, just before sending him to the castration belt.
* {{Gadgeteer Genius}}: Roscoe, the robot expert, who builds and fixes robots throughout the movie, and who recognizes both Wendon and the Omega robot of Karina's father for what they really are.
* {{GeniusBruiser}}: Killjoy, the biggest of the pirates, is also the smartest and most {{genre savvy}}.
* {{Groin Attack}}: What else to call it when the main heroes are threatened by the scariest-looking castration machine in the history of mankind?
* {{Hyperspace Is A Scary Place}}: Well, not all hyperspace; just the infamous Time Warp.
* {{Impossibly Cool Clothes}}: The costuming is one of the silliest, at at the same time, seriously beautiful things about the movie. Most of the main characters' costumes have elements of Medieval or Ancient Greek clothing (even chain mail!), all dripping with extravagant detail. In the sea of minor and background characters one can find Medieval knights, cowboys, 1980s leotards, gladiator women, and ancient Arabian garb.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Epitomized in the following line:

* InstantSoprano: The eunuchs, and the heroes when they impersonate eunuchs.

* {{Killer Robot}}: In this galaxy, it's normal for ships to have armies of robots to do some of their fighting for them.
* {{Macguffin}}: The Seventh world.
* {{Mooks}}: The Templar robots.
* {{Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot}}: Plus Kung Fu robots!
* {{No Peripheral Vision}}: Very Parodied!
* {{Planet Of Hats}}: The 7th world, whose particular hat is water. Also, the planet Mithra.
* {{Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits}}: Jason's crew, which consist of a robot expert; a runaway princess and her nanny; a female pirate; a thief who escaped from jail; a funny guy who seems to prefer cooking over fighting; an a disembodied head.
* {{Railing Kill}}: Jason shoving a defective robot over a railing, rather than getting it fixed.
* {{Rapid Aging}}: ''Everyone'' in the finale of the film, due to being stuck in a time-warp while fighting invaders. Things get weird until the ResetButton kicks in.
* {{Rebellious Princess}}: Karina has no problem behaving like a princess, but she will not side with her government when it mistreats it's people, or her father.
* {{Red Shirt}}s: The pirates' robots. Also the Templars' expendable crews.
* {{Robot Buddy}}
* {{Royals Who Actually Do Something}}: Karina's father, who goes looking for the Seventh World to help the galaxy, and Karina herself, who winds up doing the same thing will trying to find her father.
* {{Rule Of Cool}}: The only explanation for why pirates who have laser guns and travel in star ships still need metal swords, chain mail, and extravagant rock star outfits.
* {{Rule Of Funny}}: The only explanation for plot points like the Space Herpes, the Castration Belt, the Time Warp, Zeno's reaction to losing his hand, Wendon being a disembodied head...come to think of it, the entire movie.
* {{Scary Black Man}}: An angry convict who Roscoe and Jason meet in prison.
* ShoutOut: The movie, which spoofs science fiction, makes several clear nods to some famous movies.
** The chase scene in the desert, with the skull-adorned monster truck, is a Shout Out to MadMax
** The Pirate's Den, a bar filled with space thugs and aliens, is a huge nod to the Mos Eisley Catina scene in StarWars. With that in mind, Maida's duel with the bounty hunter who she cooly decapitates is probably a nod to Han Solo killing Greedo.
** The Space Herpes is a spoof of {{Alien}}, especially when it first hatches from its egg.
** Karina's stasis bed, in her first scene, is a comically spaced-up version of Snow White's glass coffin.

* {{Space Pirates}}: A bit more literal in this movie than in most (these pirates have swords, bandanas, and chain-mail, in outer space!)
* {{Sword Fight}}: All of the fight scenes involve sword play, in addition to the laser guns.
* UsedFuture: This applies especially to the robots.
* {{Well Excuse Me Princess}} Jason and Karina.
* XMeetsY: ''{{Firefly}}''(if, instead of a {{Western}} motif, they went with pirates) meets ''Series/RedDwarf''. Note: this movie came out before either series...
* YouFailPhysicsForever: The classic of ill-researched SF films--it would be difficult indeed to actually monopolize all the water in the galaxy as the expository crawl claims the Templars have done.
** Taken to new levels when it's shown that one of the pirate hideouts orbits a ringed gas giant (a stock animation of Saturn). You want ice? Go outside and grab a chunk.

* {{JiveTurkey}}: The black pimp bot.

* [[spoiler: ExpressDelivery: Karina gives birth ''and'' raises her kid while in the time-warping zone, allowing the son to join the fight as a young man and save the rapidly-aging heroes.]]

** This movie has footage from ''LogansRun''.
** As well as ''Film/{{Rollerball}}''.
* {{Slap Slap Kiss}} Jason and Princess Karina. Not only do they spend much of the movie insulting one another, but they're also locked in a battle of wits, trying to threaten, capture, enslave, or embarrass one another.
* {{Space Opera}}: The movie is often considered a spoof of "Star Wars," but since it's storyline is so much different, it's more likely meant to be a spoof of the entire genre.

''The Ice Pirates'' is a 1984 comedy/science-fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill (of Wilderness Family fame), who co-wrote the screenplay with ''{{Krull}}'' author Stanford Sherman. The movie stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby. Other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, RonPerlman, [[{{Manimal}} Michael D. Roberts]], Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine and football great [[Film/TheGoonies John Matuszak]]. It is considered to be a CultClassic by many science fiction and B-movie fans because the movie doesn't really take itself seriously and everybody involved seems to have a great time hamming it up.

''The Ice Pirates'' is a 1984 comedy/science-fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill (of Wilderness Family fame), who co-wrote the screenplay with ''{{Krull}}'' author Stanford Sherman. The movie stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby. Other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, RonPerlman, [[{{Manimal}} Michael D. Roberts]], Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine and football great [[Film/TheGoonies John Matuszak]]. It is considered to be a CultClassic by many science fiction and B-movie fans because the movie doesn't really take it self seriously and everybody involved seems to have a great time hamming it up.

* {{Everythings Better With Princesses}}: Princess Karina, who is a clear nod to Princess Leia of {{Star Wars}} (she's a beautiful brunette who fights an evil empire, and has a {{Slap-slap-kiss}} romance with a pirate).

* {{Rule Of Funny}}: The only explanation for plot points like the Space Herpe, the Castration Belt, the Time Warp, Zeno's reaction to losing his hand, Wendon being a disembodied head...come to think of it, the entire movie.

* {{Space Pirates}}: A bit more literal in this movie than in most (these pirates have swords, bandannas, and chain-mail, in outer space!)

* {{GadgeteerGenius}}: Roscoe, the robot expert, who builds and fixes robots throughout the movie, and who recognizes both Wendon and the Omega robot of Karina's father for what they really are.
* {{GeniusBruiser}}: Killjoy, the biggest of the pirates, is also the smartest and most {{genre savvy}}.
* {{GroinAttack}}: Proper slaves must be emasculated...
* {{JiveTurkey}}: The black pimp bot.
* {{Macguffin}}: The Seventh world.
* {{Mooks}}: The Templar robots.
* {{PlanetOfHats}}: The 7th world, whose particular hat is water. Also, the planet Mithra.
* {{RapidAging}}: ''Everyone'' in the finale of the film, due to being stuck in a time-warp while fighting invaders. Things get weird until the ResetButton kicks in.
* {{Red Shirt}}s: The pirates' robots.
* ShoutOut: The movie, which spoofs science fiction, makes several clear nods to some famous movies.
** The chase scene in the desert, with the skull-adorned monster truck, is a Shout Out to MadMax
** The Pirate's Den, a bar filled with space thugs and aliens, is a huge nod to the Mos Eisley Catina scene in StarWars. With that in mind, Maida's duel with the bounty hunter who she cooly decapitates is probably a nod to Han Solo killing Greedo.
** The Space Herpe is a spoof of {{Alien}}, especially when it first hatches from its egg.
** Karina's stasis bed, in her first scene, is a comically spaced-up version of Snow White's glass coffin.
** This movie has footage from ''LogansRun''.
** As well as ''Film/{{Rollerball}}''.
* UsedFuture: This applies especially to the robots.
* XMeetsY: ''{{Firefly}}''(if, instead of a {{Western}} motif, they went with pirates) meets ''Series/RedDwarf''.
* YouFailPhysicsForever: The classic of ill-researched SF films--it would be difficult indeed to actually monopolize all the water in the galaxy as the expository crawl claims the Templars have done.
** Taken to new levels when it's shown that one of the pirate hideouts orbits a ringed gas giant (a stock animation of Saturn). You want ice? Go outside and grab a chunk.

* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like In Stasis]]: How Jason first meets Princess Karina.

* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Maida, who treats Killjoy's flirtations, Jason's rash decisions, and Wendon's nonstop talking all with equal disdain.

* {{Cult Classic}}: Despite getting many negative reviews from critics, and not being a well-known movie, many people who have seen it find it hilarious, at it has at least one fan site.

* {{Special Effects Failure}}: Wendon's neck and body can be scene in a few shots after he's decapitated and his head is being carried around.

* {{Impossibly Cool Clothes}}: The costuming is one of the silliest, at at the same time, seriously beaitufil things about the movie. Most of the main characters' costumes have elements of Medieval or Ancient Greek clothing (even chain mail!), all dripping with extravagant detail. In the sea of minor and background characters one can find Medieval knights, cowboys, 1980s leotards, gladiator women, and ancient Arabian garb.

-->'''Zeno:''' I hope no one minds, but I have no intention of facing this sober.

''The Ice Pirates'' is a 1984 comedy/science-fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill (of Wilderness Family fame), who co-wrote the screenplay with ''{{Krull}}'' author Stanford Sherman. The movie stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby. Other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, RonPerlman, [[{{Manimal}} Michael D. Roberts]], Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine and football great [[TheGoonies John Matuszak]]. It is considered to be a CultClassic by many science fiction and B-movie fans because the movie doesn't really take it self seriously and everybody involved seems to have a great time hamming it up.

''The Ice Pirates'' is a 1984 comedy/science-fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill (of Wilderness Family fame), who co-wrote the screenplay with ''{{Krull}}'' author Stanford Sherman. The movie stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby. Other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, RonPerlman, [[{{Manimal}} Michael D. Roberts]], Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine and football great [[TheGoonies John Matuszak]].

The film takes place in a future where water is an immensely valuable substance, both as a commodity and as a currency. Princess Karina (Crosby) is a spoiled princess who purchases captured space pirates Jason (Urich) and Roscoe (Roberts). They then proceed to locate a "lost" planet that contains massive amounts of water. The planet must be approached on a specific course or the ship will be suspended in time forever. The course apparently contains some sort of time distortion. It is considered to be a CultClassic by many science fiction and B-movie fans because the movie doesn't really take it self seriously.

* {{Cool And Unusual Punishment}}: The castration machine scene, which could qualify as either a CrowningMomentOfFunny or NightmareFuel (if you're male).

* XMeetsY: ''{{Firefly}}''(if, instead of a {{Western}} motif, they went with pirates) meets ''RedDwarf''.

* {{Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits}}: Jason's crew.

* {{Rule Of Funny}}: The only explanation for plot points like the Space Herpe, the Castration Belt, the Time Warp, Wendon being a disembodied head...come to think of it, the entire movie.

* {{iveTurkey}}: The black pimp bot.

* Cult Classic
* Dark Is Not Evil: Buford
* Deadpan Snarker
* Earth That Was
* The Eighties
* The Empire: The Templars
* Everythings Better With Princesses: Princess Karina.
* Exactly What It Says On The Tin
* Fate Worse Than Death
* Hologram
* Hyperspace Is A Scary Place
* Killer Robot
* Master Of Disguise
* Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Plus Kung Fu robots.
* No Peripheral Vision (Very Parodied!)
* Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits
* Railing Kill
* Rebellious Princess
* Ridiculously Human Robots
* Robot Buddy
* Royals Who Actually Do Something
* Rule Of Cool
* Rule Of Funny
* Scary Black Man
* Samus Is A Girl
* Slap Slap Kiss
* Space Opera
* Space Pirates
* Sword Fight
* Well Excuse Me Princess
* GadgeteerGenius: Roscoe
* GeniusBruiser: Killjoy, the biggest of the pirates, is also the smartest and most {{genre savvy}}.
* GroinAttack: Proper slaves must be emasculated.
* JiveTurkey: The black pimp bot.
* {{Macguffin}}: The 7th world.

* PlanetOfHats: The 7th world, whose particular hat is water. Also, the planet Mithra.
* RapidAging: ''Everyone'' in the finale of the film, due to being stuck in a time-warp while fighting invaders. Things get weird until the ResetButton kicks in.

* ShoutOut:

* YouFailPhysicsForever: The classic of ill-researched SF films--it would be difficult indeed to actually monopolize all the water in the galaxy as the expository crawl claims the Templars have done.

* Action Girl: Maida, the only female pirate in Jason's crew. Though she isn't involved in the fight of the climax (as she's too busy piloting the ship), she uses her laser gun as much as any of the guys throughout the movie, and has a memorable sword duel in the middle of the film, where she decapitates her attacker!
* Amazon Brigade: All of Wendon's guards are, for some reason, scantily-dressed gladiator women.
* Beta Couple: Maida and Killjoy, two supporting characters who have tension throughout the movie, until they finally kiss at the end.
* Big Bad: Zorn, leader of the evil Templars
* Big Guy: Killjoy, the tough thief who Jason and Roscoe meet in prison, and who later joins their crew.
* Black Best Friend: Roscoe
* B Movie: Is considered this by many critics, despite the fact that it's a comedy and was corny on purpose.
* Battle Butler: Percy the Robot, who wears a bow-tie and speaks like a gentleman, but can kung-fu chop anyone who threatens the princess.
* Bounty Hunter: An entire crew of them, who chase after the bounty that Zorn places on Jason's head (in a scene that spoofs MadMax).
* Bullet Time: Inverted in the climax.
* Butt Monkey
* The Captain: Jason
* Cool Car
* Cool And Unusual Punishment: The castration machine.

* Action Girl: Maida, the only female pirate in Jason's crew. Though she isn't involved in the fight of the climax (as she's too busy piloting the ship), she uses her laser gun as much as any of the guys throughout the movie, and has a memorable sword duel in an {{alien bar}}, where she decapitates her attacker!
* Amazon Brigade
* Beta Couple: Maida and Killjoy
* Big Bad
* Big Guy: Killjoy

* B Movie
* Battle Butler: Percy the Robot.
* Bounty Hunter

* ActionGirl: Maida
* AmazonBrigade
* {{Beta Couple}}: Maida and Killjoy
* BigBad
* BigGuy: Killjoy
* BlackBestFriend: Roscoe
* BMovie
* BattleButler: Percy the Robot.
* BountyHunter
* BulletTime: ''Inverted'' in the climax.
* ButtMonkey
* TheCaptain: Jason
* CoolCar
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The castration machine.
* CultClassic
* DarkIsNotEvil: Buford
* DeadpanSnarker
* EarthThatWas
* TheEighties
* TheEmpire: The Templars
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Princess Karina.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* FateWorseThanDeath
* {{Flynning}}
* FridgeBrilliance: At first it may seem odd that pirates and bounty hunters dress as elegantly as the princesses and emperors. But the narrator says, at the very beginning, "Water is the only thing left of value." Gold, jewels, and fine fabrics are probably cheap trinkets in this world, where water is what defines rich from poor.

* {{Hologram}}
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace

* KillerRobot

* MasterOfDisguise

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Plus Kung Fu robots.
* NoPeripheralVision (Very Parodied!)

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* RailingKill

* RebelliousPrincess
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots
* RobotBuddy
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* RuleOfCool
* RuleOfFunny
* ScaryBlackMan
* SamusIsAGirl
* SlapSlapKiss
* SpaceOpera
* SpacePirates
* StockFootage: This movie has footage from ''LogansRun''.

* SwordFight

* WellExcuseMePrincess