The Ice Pirates


The Ice Pirates is a 1984 comic science fiction film directed by Stewart Raffill, who cowrote the screenplay with Krull writer Stanford Sherman. The film stars Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Michael D. Roberts other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman, Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine, and former football player John Matuszak.

The film is somewhat tongueincheek and often compared to Star Wars. Upon its release, the New York Times described it as a busy, bewildering, exceedingly jokey sciencefiction film that looks like a Star Wars spinoff made in an underdeveloped galaxy.The film is also noteworthy for its cheeky, obviously cutrate production values, mideighties colorblind casting, sexual frankness, and neardeliberately slack sitcom direction. The climactic timewarp battle is a rare example of the classic sciencefiction temporal paradox done in a realtime context. It currently holds arating on Rotten Tomatoes despite this, it proved to be a moderate box office success, grossing a domestic total of 14,255,801 on amillion budget. ........

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