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The Water ice Pirates is a 1984 comedy/scientific discipline-fiction motion picture. It was directed by Stewart Raffill (of Wilderness Family and Mac and Me fame), who co-wrote the screenplay with Krull author Stanford Sherman. The picture stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby. Other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman, Michael D. Roberts, Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine and football great John Matuszak. It is considered to exist a Cult Classic by many science fiction and B-movie fans because the movie doesn't really accept itself seriously and everybody involved seems to have a groovy time hamming it up.

The film takes identify 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 infinite pirates Jason (Urich) and Roscoe (Roberts). They then keep to locate a "lost" planet that contains massive amounts of h2o. The planet must exist approached on a specific form or the ship will be suspended in fourth dimension forever. The class apparently contains some sort of time distortion.

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The Ice Pirates has examples of:

• The '80s: 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? Bank check-a-roo!
• Action Girl: Maida, the only female pirate in Jason's crew. Though she isn't involved in the fight of the climax (every bit she'due south likewise busy piloting the ship), she uses her laser gun every bit much as any of the guys throughout the film, and has a memorable sword duel in the middle of the moving-picture show, where she decapitates her attacker!
• Amazon Brigade: All of Wendon's guards are, for some reason, scantily-dressed gladiator women.
• Anti-Hero: Our protagonists are pirates. In his early scenes, Jason destroys a robot because he's unhappy with its performance and laments that he cannot rape the princess.
• Artistic License – Physics: The mode the fourth dimension distortion works is pure fantasy.
• Artistic License – Space: The pic's main premise was severely undermined by the realization that h2o is one of the most common substances in the entire universe, being found even on Mercury.
• Aside Glance: The shitting conflicting in the beginning glances at the camera twice as it reacts to the protagonists' actions.
• Battle Butler: Percy the Robot, who wears a bow-tie and speaks like a gentleman, merely can kung-fu chop anyone who threatens the princess.
• Beta Couple: Maida and Killjoy, two supporting characters who accept tension throughout the picture, until they finally kiss at the end.
• Large Bad: Zorn, leader of the evil Templars
• Big Guy: In spite of being introduced as a cunning and clever rogue, Killjoy becomes more than or less the Big Guy when he joins the coiffure. And he's quite large, making Ron Perlman look shrimpy by comparison.
• Black and Nerdy: Roscoe, the only blackness pirate, is the one responsible for maintaining the robots.
• B-Movie: Is considered this by many critics, despite the fact that it's a comedy and was corny on purpose.
• Bounty Hunter: An entire crew of them, who hunt subsequently the bounty that Zorn places on Jason's head (in a scene that spoofs Mad Max).
• Bullet Fourth dimension: Inverted in the climax.
• Campsite Gay:
  • Wendon, by virtue of existence played by Bruce Vilanch. When Killjoy asks if he'south got annihilation else secreted in his oral fissure, Wendon asks, "Why, you wanna make a eolith?"
  • When Zeno cooks, he starts affecting a lisp and makes a comment nearly doting his female parent, which was another gay stereotype at the fourth dimension of filming.
  • The man on the assembly line responsible for shaving the men's privates manages to exist camp gay without having whatever lines.
• The Captain: Jason
• Cool Car: The desert truck driven by the Bounty Hunters, in the scene that spoofs Mad Max. Imagine a monster-car, with a pirate send's captain for a steering wheel, and a horned alien skull adorning the forepart.
• Cool and Unusual Penalization: The castration machine scene, which could authorize as either a Funny Moment or horror (if y'all're male).

  Jason: (to line worker) Want to go together after?

  Female Line Worker: Oh, I don't recollect you'll exist up for it.

• Nighttime Is Not Evil: Buford, the robot who Roscoe builds and paints black, because "I wanted him to exist perfect!"
• Deadpan Snarker: Maida, who treats Killjoy's flirtations, Jason'due south rash decisions, and Wendon's nonstop talking all with equal disdain.
• The Dreaded: A Mass "Oh, Crap!" when they find out the send has Space Canker.
• Dude, She'southward Like, in a Coma!: Jason showtime meets Princess Karina when she's in stasis and becomes infatuated with her, fifty-fifty trying to sneak a summit downwardly her dress.
• Globe All Along: The original ending had the lost planet turning out to be Earth.
• The Empire: The Templars, the greedy aristocrats who control all of the water in the galaxy. Notwithstanding, it is made clear that not all aristocrats side with the Templars; Karina and her father both wanted what was all-time for the whole galaxy, and are either shown or told to have been treating commoners and fifty-fifty criminals far more kindly than the evil Templars.
• Exactly What Information technology Says on the Can: It's about pirates who steal water ice.
• Express Delivery / Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Karina gives nascence and raises her kid while in the time-warping zone, assuasive the son to join the fight as a young human being and relieve the chop-chop-aging heroes.
• Fantastic Racism: Averted wonderfully past the bounty hunter leader and 1 of his thugs.

  Swordsman: In that location they are, the bonny adult female and the [North-bomb].

  Bounty Hunter Leader: (gives swordsman a dirty await)

  Swordsman: (looking sheepish) I meant the bonny woman and the overnice blackness gentleman over there.

  • And once again by Roscoe

  Jason: I don't mean to be rude, but why is this robot black?

  Roscoe: Because I wanted him to be perfect!

• Fate Worse than Decease: Zorn promises this to Jason, but 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.
• Generation Xerox: Jason and Karina's son is played past Robert Urich.
• Genius Bruiser: Killjoy, the biggest of the pirates, is likewise the smartest.
• Groin Assault: What else to call it when the principal heroes are threatened by the scariest-looking castration machine in the history of flesh?
• Gratuitous Princess: Princess Karina, who is a clear nod to Princess Leia of Star Wars (she's a cute brunette who fights an evil empire, and has a Slap-Slap-Kiss romance with a pirate).
• Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Well, not all hyperspace; just the infamous Time Warp.
• Impossibly Absurd Dress: The costuming is i of the silliest, at at the same time, seriously beautiful things about the movie. Nigh of the chief characters' costumes have elements of Medieval or Aboriginal Greek clothing (fifty-fifty chain post!), all dripping with extravagant detail. In the sea of minor and background characters 1 tin can find Medieval knights, cowboys, 1980s leotards, gladiator women, and ancient Arabian garb.
• I Need a Freaking Beverage: Epitomized in the following line:

  Zeno: I promise no one minds, simply I have no intention of facing this sober.

• Instant Soprano: The eunuchs, and the heroes when they impersonate eunuchs.
• JiveTurkey: The pimp bot.

  Pimp Boy: Hey, Jack, hey blood! Want some titties? Finest titties on Mithra!

• Kicking the Dog: Zorn executes an injured ice pirate moments after promising not to, establishing that he'south the villain even if the protagonists are pirates.
• Killer Robot: In this galaxy, nigh of the fighting is washed by robots. When the heroes fight, a lot of their effort is spent fixing damaged robots rather than fighting themselves.
• A Long Time Agone, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...: The lost planet was originally supposed to be Earth, but the final typhoon plays it straight with Globe not being mentioned.
• Macguffin: The Seventh world.
• Mars Needs Water: While it'southward not an invasion, water is the most valuable substance in the universe, to the betoken of being the movie's MacGuffin.
• Mooks: The Templar robots.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Plus Kung Fu robots!
• No Peripheral Vision: Very parodied!
• Off with His Head!: Maida decapitates her opponent in a swordfight, which takes a few seconds to scroll off. Wendon also gets his head cutting off, though he remains alive for some inexplicable reason.
• Planet of Hats: The seventh world, whose particular hat is water. Too, the planet Mithra.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Jason'south crew, which consist of a robot skilful; 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 Impale: Jason shoving a defective robot over a railing rather than getting it stock-still. This motivates the other robots to do better.
• Rapid Aging: Everyone in the finale of the movie, due to being stuck in a time-warp while fighting invaders. Things get weird until the Reset Button kicks in.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Wendon, the nerdy outcast Templar, was "set upwardly on his own planet," a foggy wasteland populated only by unicorns and Amazon women (both of which might have been brought by Wendon himself).
• Rebellious Princess: Karina has no problem behaving like a princess, just she will not side with her government when it mistreats its people, or her male parent.
• Ruby Shirts: The pirates' robots. Also the Templars' expendable crews.
• Reset Push: In the end, time goes dorsum to the moment earlier the climax started, nullifying everything that happened and fifty-fifty bringing people who died dorsum to life. In fact, the heroes would have won no matter what happened because they charted their course correctly, while the villains didn't.
• Robot Buddy
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Karina'south male parent, who goes looking for the Seventh World to help the milky way, and Karina herself, who winds up doing the same thing while trying to find her father.
• Rule of Absurd: The only explanation for why pirates who take laser guns and travel in star ships still need metal swords, concatenation mail, and extravagant rock star outfits.
• Dominion of Funny: The only caption for plot points like the Infinite Herpes, the Castration Belt, the Fourth dimension Warp, Zeno's reaction to losing his mitt, Wendon being a disembodied head and just about all the rest. Don't think well-nigh it too hard.
• Scary Black Man:
  • The aroused convict who Roscoe and Jason run into in prison.
  • Besides the bounty hunter leader.
• Shout-Out: The movie, which spoofs science fiction, makes several articulate nods to some famous movies.
  • The hunt scene in the desert, with the skull-adorned monster truck, is a Shout Out to Mad Max.
  • The Pirate's Den, a bar filled with space thugs and aliens, is a huge nod to the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars. With that in mind, Maida's duel with the bounty hunter who she cooly decapitates is probably a nod to Han Solo killing Greedo or Obi Wan dispatching Ponda Baba.
  • The Space Herpe is a spoof of Alien, especially when it outset hatches from its egg. Even moreso when it bursts out of the turkey at the dinner table.
  • Karina'south stasis bed, in her beginning scene, is a comically spaced-up version of Snow White'southward glass coffin.
  • This flick has footage from Logan'south Run and Rollerball.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Jason and Princess Karina. Not only do they spend much of the movie insulting one some other, simply they're as well locked in a battle of wits, trying to threaten, capture, enslave, or embarrass 1 another.
• Infinite Opera: The movie is often considered a parody of Star Wars, simply since its storyline is so unlike, it's more likely meant to be a spoof of the entire genre.
• Space Pirates: A chip more literal in this movie than in most (these pirates have swords, bandanas, and concatenation-postal service, in outer space!)
• SpaceX: Infinite... herpes. Space... canker.
• Stereo Fibbing: Jason and Roscoe in regards to the Space Herpes.
• Sword Fight: All of the fight scenes involve sword play, in addition to the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation guns.
• Time-Passage Beard: The whole cast's hair and beards grow cartoonishly long as they apace age.
• Token Blackness Friend: Roscoe, Jason's all-time friend and vocalism of reason, who loves to joke nearly his own race.
• Used Futurity: Everything looks junky and industrial in the time to come. The robots are always breaking downward.
• Well, Alibi Me, Princess! Jason and Karina.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: When they made it through the time warp, everything reverted dorsum to the point when they entered it, which includes the infinite herpe being defenseless. This means that it'southward still loose on the ship every bit the movie ends.

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