"Cool As Ice" is the work of art.
No, really. That's what the rap star wanna-be Vanilla Ice thinks when he starred in this movie cluttered with the piece of dog dung script from David Stenn. The movie showcases the atrocious acting by Vanilla Ice who bolsters his ego to triumph over evil and injustice, and gets to shag the girl of his dreams ("perverted fantasies" more like describes his intention of establishing a torrid love affair). It's so unbelievably bad you have to suspend the disbelief just to get the kick out of making fun of Vanilla Ice as he attempts to act like he's going to win an Oscar for Best Actor but ends up being an amateur, only riddled with the terrible one-liners and smirk expressions so annoying you want to punch him in his face.
The plot is nondescript. It's too absurd and rather bizarre to summarize, so I won't bother. The star Vanilla Ice leading a bunch of poseurs to run the errand and falling madly in love with a pretty girl and conquering evil is the plot I can think of. I must make a note of complaint that "Cool As Ice" is grossly misrated PG because there's the gratuitous use of the word "D***", some violence, the particularly scary sequence and excessive sensuality. There are the scenes that literally had me die laughing. So funny you'll ache your ribs and feel the pain as Vanilla Ice intends it to become embarrassingly painful when he saw the finished version for the first time and have hid in oblivion since.
Some particularly funny scenes (some may be spoilers):
After the opening MTV-style music sequence, it becomes obvious that Vanilla Ice could not act when a sexy girl comes on to him
Jumping over the fence with the motorcycle and inadvertently hurts the girl
Vanilla Ice stole the "black book" with the list of female friends and looks like a pimp when he boasts to his poseur friends
Vanilla Ice walks around wearing an overinflated orange puff coat with the bare chest and funky pants, shouting "Hey, yo! What's up?" in a grating accent in the first half hour, made to look like the gangbanging pusher
As the girl is about to enter into her house, Vanilla Ice grabs her elbow and said "All right. I get it. Check this through. If you need me, I'll be right over there" in front of her dim-bulbed frat boyfriend.
A poorly choreographed fight scene between Vanilla Ice and the bunch of jocks
Vanilla Ice is a potential sociopathic rapist when he enters and lies on the bed besides the sleeping girl without her consent/knowledge
The overindulgent erotic interaction scenes between Vanilla Ice and the girl, and that includes pseudo dry humping and groping. If they actually go all the way, Vanilla Ice would be guilty of statutory rape
The irony of Vanilla Ice wearing a black puff leather jacket plastered all over with the words like "Sex Me Up," "Oh Yeah," and "Lust"
Gratuitous slow motion scenes and gratuitous sexual innuendoes
Michael Gross' one-dimensional character as the girl's strict father and the attitude of Vanilla Ice when he had to leave at the insistence of her father
Older couple dancing to the funky music. Utterly preposterous
Vanilla Ice's most unintentionally funny scene -- "You know something? You don't know. You don't know me. You don't know me at all!" with a cocky attitude in a sarcastic tone and then rides away with a motorcycle
Vanilla Ice invades the girl's property and got sprayed wet by the water sprinkler. In the next scene, he jumps the fence with the completely dry clothes.
Vanilla Ice rides the motorcycle at over 100 MPH. So dangerous he should have died in a tragic accident
Vanilla Ice's line of "It's fresh, man" in response to a stupid kid brother's ridiculous hair
Vanilla Ice's line "I know that sound" when investigating the mystery sound on the loudspeaker
The audiotape about the kidnapping scheme is single-handedly the funniest scene in the whole movie -- you have to see and hear to believe it
The floating physics of Vanilla Ice's motorcycle gang crashing through the wall on the second floor at the construction building. Truly a laugh riot!
The violence at the construction site could be mistaken for the gang hazing ritual
Vanilla Ice wears a ridiculous black wool hat and said the line, "Imagine that." If you have the eagle eyes, it's obvious the stunt was pulled off with a steel ramp mounted over the car to be followed by the torturous closing music sequence.
All in all, the most unintentionally funniest movie I've seen -- and I've never laughed frequently and harder AT a movie before with the exception of "Project A-Ko" and "There's Something About Mary". No doubt this is a huge embarrassment that led to Vanilla Ice's demise as the hip-hop pop star and a movie actor. Highly ironic that Vanilla Ice said at the end, "I'm...outta here!"
How David Kellogg got hired by Disney to direct "Inspector Gadget" after this inane tripe that serves as Vanilla Ice' vanity is beyond my comprehension.
Cool as Ice
1991
Action / Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
Cool as Ice
1991
Action / Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
Plot summary
The old teen rebel saga is updated for the rap crowd, unfortunately rapper Vanilla Ice is the teen. Ice shows up on a neon-yellow motorcycle which gets everyone's attention, including the female honor student who has never had a rebellious bone in her body.
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An unintentionally hilarious and insidiously hideous film **spoilers**
Yes I laughed
Johnny (Vanilla Ice) raps and rides his motorcycle with his gang. He tries to show off for Kathy Winslow (Kristin Minter). Small town bumpkin Roscoe tries to fix his sidekick's leaky bike. Johnny sees Kathy fighting with her boyfriend Nick and tries to move in. She's a senior honors student with no interest in the brightly colored rebel. Her parents (Candy Clark, Michael Gross) are in witness protection hiding from two corrupted cops (Jack McGee, S.A. Griffin) looking to be paid $500k.
I remember those days of Vanilla Ice. One has to laugh looking at him and his crew. He's all smirk and no acting skills. This is a terrible movie in laughable ways. The problem is that the attempted comedic jokes are not funny and things that aren't suppose to be funny turn out to be stupid funny. Yes I laughed as I shake my head in disbelieve. It is funny to see a couple of real actors popping up in this movie.
Amusingly Bad
A rap-oriented remake of "The Wild One" (1953),with heavy emphasis on the fact that Vanilla Ice has assumed the Marlon Brando role.
The film was developed as a vehicle for Vanilla Ice. It has received negative reviews, and was a commercial failure, grossing only $1.2 million from a $6 million budget. Director David Kellogg primarily a director of commercials and music videos, later disowned the film. Though he went on to make "Inspector Gadget", which is no better.
Interestingly, "Cool as Ice" director of photography was future "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", and "Minority Report" cinematographer Janusz Kamiński. Maybe Steven Spielberg saw something everyone else missed? In fact, this is not nearly as bad of a movie as it is made out to be. Ba, yes, but amusing in its own right. This is still better than some of the films in the "Ernest" franchise.