You won't be disappointed!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

In some dystopian future, water (instead of spice) is the most valuable substance in the universe and on the hunt for riches pirates are trying to board transport-ships filled with ice. In the same year published as Lynch's interpretation of Herbert's classic Dune, The Ice Pirates is another classic sci-fi. Okay, it is a B-Movie but it got lots of fine ideas, a good shot of humor and some good actors like Ron Perlman and Robert Urich.What we get is sword fights, fighting robots, time warps, and the eternal war of man and woman (in love).If you like sci-fi and if you like comedies, this one is definitely a watch for you.

There is so much wrong with this film, make 3 years before "Space Balls". Angelica Huston probably wanted to buy up and burn all the copies! Water not oxygen is such a scarce commodity and "The Templars" have a virtual monopoly on it. The Ice Pirates are a rag-tag band of water thieves. There are the usual cliché cast members including a beautiful princess (Mary Crosby) plus a quest for the 7th planet where water exists in great abundance. Much potty humor. A "castration machine" to turn prisoners into mindless slaves. Reused sets including a recycled matte from "Logan's Run". A bodyless being with Amazonian guards. A silly space herpes monster. Robots that act like The 3 Stooges. A beheading in the Alien Pirate Bar. Minor racist comments. A cheaply-made "Mad Max" desert car chase. Simulated (just lots of moaning) sex. The cheap costumes: pirates, King Arthur chainmail, Vikings, black leather. This started out as a serious film and lost its way. Fairly decent spaceship special effects but shoddy Atari displays. A great cast totally wasted. The time travel climax is very confusing but cleverly done. All the men grow long white beards like Moses. The Space Pirates fight the Templars "to the death" with swords and lasers. The hero's baby boy grows up before our eyes and saves-the-day. Then everything returns back to normal? It's tasteless yet occasionally funny, in spite of itself! After all the new "Star Wars" films of late, we need another space spoof. The working title: "Darth Vader Go Home!"

Three years before Mel Brooks poked fun at the Star Wars trilogy, a cast of fine actors had a go at the cheesy space operas of the 1980's. They made fun of old gimmicks such as water being the rarest element in the galaxy, robots, "aliens" hatching from eggs, and even time warps. Alas most viewers took this spoof movie as the real deal.The musical score is right out of a swashbuckling pirate epic. Axes and sword fights are more common than laser battles. The only flaw with this movie, is not enough jokes to keep you laughing until you bust a gut.I was amazed at the casting for this space comedy. Three personal favorites of mine were supporting roles. They included Anjelica Huston from Addams Family, John Matuszak from Goonies, and Ron Perlman from Hellboy. After watching this I am almost certain Mel Brooks took some from this movie to make Spaceballs. Be sure to watch this one at least once, it is worth the laugh. Of course, if you can find it, this movie is as rare as water.

I never actually saw a film that was so bad it was good until I saw this one. It really cranks the ridiculousness up to 11! The movie is for the most part a giant Star Wars ripoff: they just copied the whole bloody concept, the 'used universe' art style, the bleeping robots, the scoundrels, the princess, the evil wizards/empire...Then they try to combine this with idiotic comedy and believe me you will laugh, not at the jokes but at the over the top nonsensical lunacy they call a film. Other scifi also gets ripped off: the chestburster from Alien is here called 'space herpe'. Ad also some 'Flash Gordon' spandex scenes, a battle sequence with accelerated aging (they just speed up the frame rate) where they use increasingly more huge wigs to indicate the aging. If you want to ROFL without being even remotely drunk or spaced out, see this. If you combine one of the previous 2 with this movie you even might easily kill yourself.