Review of Cool as Ice (1991) by Javier M — 07 Sep 2007
This weak attempt to cash-in on the remaining seconds of Vanilla Ice's 15 minutes of fame came a few months too late to attract much of a crowd. Ice is a wandering rebel on a motorcycle in this cross between "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Wild Ones.
" When he and his rap posse get stuck in a small town because one of their bikes is "trippin'" (translation: breaks down), he quickly sets out to win the heart of a pretty high school honor student.
No doubt about it, the boy has got all the right moves; unfortunately, he's no actor and the script doesn't do him any favors. For example, after he meets his new love's unhip boyfriend, the ghetto talkin', nursery rhymin' rapper spews the following line, "Drop that zero and get with the hero.
" Dear Abby he's not. The finished product is patently unreleasable, but of course, that didn't stop the marketing geniuses at Universal Pictures from hurling it at theaters nationwide in a desperate attempt to sell a few soundtrack albums.
And few they did.
This review of Cool as Ice (1991) was written by Javier M on 07 Sep 2007.
Cool as Ice has generally received negative reviews.
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